By Sreehari and Sreerag from Delhi, disciples of Ganabhushanam Arjunan Kizhakkanela, and Guru Sri Prashant G. Pai 

 

 

Old Man River (52 min; dvd; English)

Director: Gautam Bora

 

98 year old Kurak Pegu has worked hard all his life to survive and sustain his family along the flood prone Majuli in Assam. He knows that the Brahmaputra river has been both kind and harsh at the same time. He knows the river inside out and believes that the wisdom of this traditional knowledge handed down to him by his forefathers will give him the strength to cope with all the odds of nature

 

(Collaboration: World Wide Fund for Nature-India)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Smt Maitreyi Pushpa,Vice Chairperson, Hindi Akadami Delhi; a noted fiction writer of Hindi and author of 10 novels, including Alma Kabutari, Jhoola Nat, Kasturi Kundal Base and Gudiya Bheetar Gudiya; and 7 short story collections including Fighter ki Diary, Goma Hansti Hai, Lalmaniya have been highly acclaimed 

 

Her awards include: SAARC Literary Award, Sahitya Kriti Samman and Premchand Samman

 

(Collaboration: Indian Society for Authors)

FRIDAY 17

 

TALK  ? SEMINAR ROOMS II& III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 17:30

 

Speaker: Professor Tamar Szabó Gendler, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University and Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and also Professor Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale

 

(Collaboration: Ashoka University)

 

 

By Mehtab Ali Niazi from Delhi, son and disciple of   Ustad Mohsin Ali Khan

 

 

 

 

The Awards for Heroes of Courage and Women Change Agents recognizes the exemplary work of young Indians who chose to act against violence that women experience in both public and private spaces. The women, men and  transgenders, who will be felicitated, come from diverse contexts but they are all committed to one cause: an India where girls and women have access to equal rights and where there is zero tolerance for gender-based violence

 

(Collaboration WISCOMP)

 

 

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Speaker: Dr. Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a leading Indonesian scholar and Secretary to the Vice-President of Indonesia

 

Chair: Prof. Baladas Ghoshal

 

(Collaboration: Society for Indian Ocean Studies and ICCR)