INDIA AND THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND NATIONAL POLICY  

 

 

The Illusion of Control in Urban Planning

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Seddon, Founder-Director, OKAPI Research Centre, Chennai

Chair: Shri Vinod Rai

 

 

Speaker: Dr. Surjit Bhalla, Chairman, Oxus Investments and Senior India Analyst, Observatory Group (a New York based macro policy advisory firm) 

Chair: Shri Arun Maira

Speaker: Shri Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Teamlease

Chair: Dr. Kiran Karnik

 

THURSDAY, 3

TALK ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

Employing and Skilling a Billion People

Speaker: Shri Manish Sabharwal, Chairman, Teamlease

Chair: Dr. Kiran Karnik

 

MONDAY, 7 

TALK  ? CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:30

Trends in Education and Inequality

Speaker: Dr. Surjit Bhalla, Chairman, Oxus Investments and Senior India Analyst, Observatory Group (a New York based macro policy advisory firm) 

Chair: Shri Arun Maira

 

THURSDAY, 10

TALK  ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

The Illusion of Control in Urban Planning

Speaker: Dr. Jessica Seddon, Founder-Director, OKAPI Research Centre, Chennai

Chair: Shri Vinod Rai

 

THURSDAY, 17    (CANCELLED)

TALK  ? SEMINAR HALLS II & III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

Thought Experiments in Urban Transport

Speaker: Prof. Dinesh Mohan, former Professor, IIT (Volvo Chair)

Chair: Shri Dunu Roy

Speakers: Shri A.G.K. Menon, President, INTACH (Delhi Chapter); Prof. Dr. P.S.N. Rao, Chairman, Delhi Urban Arts Commission; Ms Amina Sherwani, Environmentalist; and Shri Neeraj Gupta, President, Delhi Art Society

 

An exhibition of sculptures by Latika Katt, Biman Das, Shubhika Lal, Asurvedh, Neeraj Gupta, Mir Imtiyaz, Sheela Chamariya, Pankaj Panwar, Suvojit  Samanta, Rajiv Nayan, Sandeep Chakraborty, Naresh Kapooria, Shovin Bhattacharjee,  Krishan Ahuja, S.P. Choudhry, Anil Sutar, Amira Kapoor and Uday Kumar Pandit

 

There will also be an exhibition of paintings, photographs and collages by Kalicharan Gupta, Asim Patel, Tarun Mathur, Rajeev Kumar, Manoj Jain, Shalini Srivastava and students of G.D. Salwan Public School

Inauguration by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan on Wednesday 2 December 2015 at 17:30

 

Discussion on Environment and Public Art

Speakers: Shri A.G.K. Menon, President, INTACH (Delhi Chapter); Prof. Dr. P.S.N. Rao, Chairman, Delhi Urban Arts Commission; Ms Amina Sherwani, Environmentalist; and Shri Neeraj Gupta, President, Delhi Art Society

 

5 December Presentations at 12 noon

Photography and Environment

Speakers:  K. Ahuja, Asim Patel and Tarun Mathur

 

6 December Talk and Demonstration at 12 noon

Creative Calligraphy 

By Rajeev Kumar

 

A discussion on the occasion of the release of four books: Indian Classical Dance by Dr.Kapila Vatsyayan; An Introduction to Music by Late Shri B. Chaitanya Dev; Art and Science of Playing Tabla by Shri Vijay Shankar Mishra; and Bengali Theatre: 200 Years by Dr. Utpal K. Banerjee

 

Discussants: Smt Leela Venkataraman, scholar, author and critic; Shri Irfan Zuberi, Chairperson, Steering Committee on Arts Management, Ministry of Culture and Project Manager, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, IGNCA; Professor Benil Biswas, Asst. Professor, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University 

Chair: Shri B.P. Singh, former Governor, Sikkim

(40 min; 2015; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Yousuf Saeed who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

Khusrau Darya Prem Ka is a modern-day docu-drama that tries to understand the 14th century poet-composer, Amir Khusrau Dehlavi. The film uses the dramatic technique of dastan goi by Ankit Chadha to narrate Khusrau’s story and 

Rene Singh who essays the role of a musician hoping to learn more about the poet. The film also uses some renderings of Khusrau’s popular poetry in the voices of traditional qawwals such as Mohammad Ahmed Warsi and Farid Ayaz and Urdu-Persian calligraphy by Anis Siddiqui