DISCUSSION  ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

Panelists: Naresh Fernandes, Editor, Scroll.in; Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, The Caravan magazine; Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen; and Madhu Trehan, Editor-in-Chief, Newslaundry.com

 

Moderator: Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding Editor, Himal Southasian

 

The media’s job of checking those in power is more urgent than ever in light of the political developments in Southasia and beyond. The words ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’, so prominent now following the US elections and the rise of demagogues in our part of the world, implies the flattening of all distinctions between opinion, facts and truth claims. What is the role of media in this environment? Given the excessive control wielded by corporate conglomerates over Indian media, and given that print seems to be imperilled everywhere, are there more creative ways to fund the journalistic enterprise, keeping in mind media independence? Are subscriber based models the future now? And how do we do this amidst trolls and the rise of fake news?

 

(Collaboration: Himal Southasian, Kathmandu) 

 

 

By Gopika Rajan from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Deepti Omchery Bhalla

Art Matters

Biographies in Progress :   Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Raghuvir Sahay, Agyeya & J Swaminathan

 

Speakers: Mangalesh Dabral, Vishnu Nagar,  Akshaya Mukul and Prayag Shukla

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and currently Research Professor, Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener Working Group on Alternative Strategies 

 

Prof. Amit Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. His contribution as an economic theorist lies in challenging the mainstream theory and analyzing the role of power in the market economy in a precise and yet compelling way

 

The lecture commemorates 25 years of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

Digital India

Keynote address: Shri J. S. Deepak, Secretary & Chairman, Department of Telecommunications; and Shri Alok Kumar, Adviser, Niti Aayog

 

Chair: Shri Vinay Shankar, Secretary, Dept of Telecommunications

  

  

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

(23 min; 2016;dvd; English)

 

 

Director: Vijay Rana who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A hundred years ago in 1917, Mahatma Gandhi set up what was going to be his Karmabhumi, Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. It was from here he decided to wake up India and shake the world in a gentle way. This documentary sheds light on Gandhi’s life in the Ashram and has a rare eyewitness account of the famous Salt March by one of his disciples, Sumangal Prakash who was one of the 79 Ashram residents Gandhi selected as his co-marchers

 

TUESDAY 7

 

 

The Pundaquit Virtuouso is a unique community arts programme of Casa San Miguel in San Antonio Zambales which has been training the local youth, largely from the fishing community, in classical music and the arts

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Philippines)

 

By Shovana Narayan and her disciples

 

A tribute to the late Shri Vasant Sathe on the occasion of his birth anniversary 

 

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Utsav Samiti)

 

 

 

An exhibition of sculptures in wood and bronze; and drawings

By Shakti Maira

 

Inauguration by Shri Krishen Khanna on Saturday, 4th March 2017 at 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, on Friday 10 March 2017 at 18:00 in Seminar Rooms II & III, Kamaladevi Complex

The Promise of Beauty & Why It Matters 

Launch of Shakti Maira’s new book (HarperCollins; 2017) with Anjolie Ela Menon, Ashok Vajpeyi, Vandana Shiva and Geeta Chandran

 

Following the launch, at 19:00 in the Art Gallery

Beauty: The Frontiers Within

Dancer Geeta Chandran will present a performance inspired by Shakti Maira’s book