Ms Savita, taxi driver from Delhi; Ms Chanda Yadav, former District Panchyat Pramukh from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh; and Ms Seema Khan, women group leader from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh will share their struggles, experiences and their challenges

 

Chair: Ms Jaya Shrivastava, children and women’s rights activist and gender trainer

Ms Yashoda Singh and Ms Baby Haldar will share their experience as writers

 

Chair: Ms Urvashi Butalia

By Nicolaus Schmidt from Germany

 

Gypsy Music

An Illustrated talk by Dr. Punita Singh 

“Gypsy" and "Music" are words that pair together harmoniously but conjure up different images and sounds for different people.  From traditional Romani songs associated with events, festivals and rites of passage, to music expressing existential angst; from syncopated foot-tapping Flamenco to Manouche Swing and Gypsy Jazz; from Hungarian Cigányzene, Romanian L?utari, Fanfare and Manele, to Bulgarian Chalga and Balkan Pop, gypsy music defies being confined within boundaries. In this illustrative talk, Dr Punita Singh will present an overview of the diverse genres and hybrid styles often clubbed under the rubric, “gypsy music". The India connection and influence of gypsy music on western classical composers will also be discussed 

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, psychoacoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi. Special areas of interest and expertise include Christian sacred music, music of the Renaissance, twentieth-century music, Flamenco, and contrastive aspects of Indian and Western classical music 

Readings by Dr. H.K. Kaul,  Shri Keki N. Daruwalla, Dr. J.P. Das, Ms. Mandira Ghosh,  Ms. Rachna Joshi,  Ms Sagari Chhabra, Dr. J. Bhagyalakshmi, Dr. Tarannum Riyaz, Dr. Rita Malhotra, Dr.LavlinThadani, Ms. Mamta Agarwal, Dr.Tanuka Endow, Dr. Rumki Basu, Abhay Kumar, Ms. Rashmi Anand, Ms. Sanjula Sharma, Mrs. Ruma Sharma, Ms. Kavita Singhal; Smt Usha Malik; Prof. Parimal K Brahma, Mrs. Nibedita Sen and Ms. Mayura Tiwari

 

Chair: Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar

 

A discussion on Professor T.K. Oommen’s new book on the various forms of social and economic exclusion that persist in contemporary India and how they may be remedied 

 

Panelists:  Prof. Satish Deshpande; Prof. Valerin Rodrigues; and Shri Harsh Mander

 

Chair: Prof. T. N. Madan

 

Introduction: Dr.Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, IIPA

 

Speakers: Professor Debal K. SinghaRoy Professor of Sociology, IGNOU; Mr. William Middleton, Information Resource Officer and Chief, American Centre, New Delhi;  Dr. Biplav  Srivastava, Sr. Researcher and Master Inventor, IBM Research Centre, India;  and Dr. Praveen Arora, Advisor/Scientist  ‘G’ and Head, National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS)  

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

 

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violent Action & the Life of Martin Luther King Jr (15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)

 

Commemoration Service 

Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR

 

Interactive Session

 " We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed ". 

“A time comes when silence is betrayal.”  

–  Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

A short film on Martin Luther King's Life shall be screened 

 

Moderators: Shri Suhas Borker ,Working Group on Alternative Strategies; and Shri Ramesh Sharma , Gandhi Peace Foundation

 

Students from Schools of Delhi NCR to participate 

 

This programme is part of the Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development.

 

A Language on the Move: Gujarati as an Internal Agency for Formations and Transformations of Identity of an Indian Regional Culture

 

Speaker :Dr. Sitanshu Yashaschandra, eminent Gujarati poet, playwright, translator and academic; recipient of  the Sahitya Akademi  Award (1987) for his significant opus, Jatayu, and the Padma Shri (2006) 

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

 

There are many ways in which one could try to understand the structurality and dynamics of India of our times. One way is to focus on one of its regions and to look at its local genesis and regional identity. The ‘linguistic re-organization of the States’ in India led to the formation of new States which were defined by the language that the majority of each region declared as its own. This lecture examines the ontological and epistemological status of one such language, Gujarati, in its actual and enriching context and in its historical relationships with other languages of India, which was somewhat clouded over in the heat of the formation days 

 

 

Dr. Kavita A Sharma, President, South Asian University; Ambassador Ms Lesego Ethel Motsumi, Ambassador of Botswana to India; and Dr. Nina Dey Gupta, Senior Associate Professor  formerly at the  University of Delhi will discuss, Freedom and Empowerment: The Ethiopian Women’s Struggle by Gennet  Zewide  (New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2014) 

 

Chair: Prof. Rajen Harshe, Dept of International Relations, South Asian University