One Tree, One King and The Open Road, in the context of English fiction writing in India
Discussion and readings from Lavanya Reghunathan Fischer’s new book (New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2015)
 
Speakers: Dr. Vijay Tankha, Head of Department of Philosophy, St. Stephens College; Dr. Giti Chandra, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, St. Stephens College; and Ms V.K. Karthika, publisher and Chief Editor, HarperCollins Publishers
 

Presented by Lee-Alison Sibley (soprano) from USA; with Claire Tynte-Irvine (harpist) from Wales
 
The artists will present a concert of works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Handel, G.B. Pergolesci and others

Reading Ibsen in Translation
 
Dramatised readings from Ibsen’s works translated into Hindi by Astri Ghosh – A Doll’s House (Gudiya Ghar) and Ghosts (Pretchhaya)
 
Readings in the original Norwegian and Hindi by Astri Ghosh; Moonmoon Singh; Sukumar Tudul; and Rajesh Tailang
Directed by Anuradha Kapur
 

An exhibition of paintings by Tarini Ahuja from Delhi
 
Preview on Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 18:30
 
The artist explores notions of illusion in painting, shadows as a deliberate visual trick and, experiments with the materiality of the medium

Presented by Renee Singh (vocal); and Shivani Varma (kathak)
 
The programme will also include talks by prominent religious thinkers

By Mala Thapar from her new book Cultural Conundrums – Poems on Interconnectedness (UK: Hansib Publishers, 2015); and Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

Chair: Dr. Kavita Sharma

Speaker: Shri Tarun Thakral, Founder and Managing Trustee and Chief Operating Officer at C J International Hotel Ltd.
 
Chair: Air Marshal (Retd.) Naresh Verma, AVSM, VSM, Director IIC
 
The Heritage Transport Museum (HTM) is an endeavor to showcase and interpret the multiple narratives of transport movement in India. Opened in 2013, HTM brings alive the history and evolution of India’s transport heritage. In this presentation, Shri Thakral will share the process, creation, collection, architecture design and display and the story of HTM 

Lead presentation by Dr. Kacobus Kamfer (Jakkie) Cilliers, a leading scholar of South Africa and presently, Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, South Africa
 
Chair: Shri Lalit Mansingh
 
In the next stage of India’s outreach in building international partnerships Africa is a major objective. Building stable and friendly relations with this emerging continent with its large natural and rapidly developing human resources will pay rich dividends. Yet, in spite of our historic ties, there is presently neither much substance in our relations nor understanding of the current state of Africa and its many concerns. On the other hand, China has made many inroads with mixed impact

Screening of a film followed by a discussion

 

Keynote Address: Cristina Albertin, UNODC Representative for South Asia

 

Followed by

Meena (20 min; dvd; English)

Director: Lucy Liu

 

Meena is the true story of a young girl who was rescued from a life of sexual slavery in Bihar. Based on a chapter from the book “Half the Sky” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Meena Haseen was eight years old when she was kidnapped by her uncle and sold to a brothel. The film focuses on the life of this brave woman and how she rescued her daughter (also forced into prostitution) from the same brothel

 

Followed by a discussion