Director: Yashwant Giri

 

Film on the life of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia from his student years, development of his ideological orientation during his studies in Germany, return to India and participation in the freedom movement led by the Congress Party, especially his role in the Quit India Movement of 1942-46. After independence Lohia launched his socialist politics against the Congress Government as also several agitations from 1947-67 including the liberation struggle of Goa. His participation in various elections particularly against Nehru and his thesis of Non-Congressism and formation of the SVD Governments in 1967 

 

 

Amazon Expedition – II (Brazil)

Yualapitis Indians

(60 mins; 2005; dvd; English subtitles)

Produced for Brazilian TV 

 

Second in the series of films on the Amazon, presented by journalist, Paula Saldanha and biologist, Roberto Werneck 

An in-depth study on the life and culture of the indigenous Yualapitis Indians of the Upper Xingu

 

 

Concert

Pt. Ronu Majumdar (flute)

Pt. Salil Bhatt (mohan veena)

 

At 18:00

Concert

Jugalbandi by Pt. Rupak Kulkarni (flute) and Kaivalya Kumar (vocal)

 

Jugalbandi by Zahid Khan (rudra veena) and Nasir Desai (surbahar)

 

 

Prayas: Classical Indian Music Festival 20 -21 March 2015

 

Concert

Jugalbandi by Ustad Saeed Zafar Khan (sitar) and Saraswati Rajagopalan (vichitra veena)

 

Jugalbandi on tabla by Ustad Akram Khan & Ustad Hashmat Ali Khan

 

Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary & President, IC Centre for Governance

 

Keynote Speakers: Shri M Ramachandran, IAS (Retd), former Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; and Shri Balvinder Kumar, I.A.S, Vice Chairman Delhi Development Authority (DDA)

 

Chairman: Shri Syed S. Mahdi, former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

 

Towards Sustainable Green Energy Future

Speaker: Dr. Anil Kakodkar, INAE Satish Dhawan Chair of Engineering Eminence and former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India

 

Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

 

Army and Nation: How India’s Founders Made its Army Safe for Democracy

Speaker: Prof. Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Political Science, Yale University and author of the forthcoming book Army and Nation – The Military and Indian Democracy  Since Independence (Permanent Black, 2015)

 

Chair: Dr. Srinath Raghavan

 

At Indian Independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited – conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups posed a threat to democracy. Steven Wilkinson draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed