Curator: Dr. R.P. Jain who will introduce the screenings

Manon (112 min; dvd; 1982)
Music of Jules Massenet
Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan
 
With Jennifer Penny, Anthony Dowell, David Wall, Derek Rencher
The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden
Conductor: Ashley Lawrence
 
A lyric tragedy of innocence corrupted in the pleasure-seeking world of Paris in the early 18^th century

Screenings on 6, 8, 12, 15, 22 and 26 June 2015 in the Auditorium at 18:30
 
Curator: Dr. R.P. Jain who will introduce the screenings
 

Don Pasquale (133 min; dvd; English subtitles)
A comic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with John del Carlo, Mariusz Kwiecien, Matthew Polanzani, Anna Netrebko, Bernhard Fitch
 
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor: James Levine

Jokes and Japes: Humour in Western Classical Music 
An illustrated lecture by Sunit Tandon, noted theatre and television personality and is currently the President of the Delhi Music Society

3^rd Edition of the Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi 2025
Speakers: Prof. Geetam Tiwari, Professor of Transport Planning, IIT Delhi; Shri Himanshu Thakkar, Coordinator, South Asian Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP);  Shri Tarun Coomar, IFS, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of  Forests of Delhi; Shri Amit Bhatt, Strategy Head, Urban Transport, EMBARQ India; Dr. Shah Hussain, Scientist- in-Charge, Aravalli Biodiveristy Park, New Delhi;  Shri Nishant Kumar, D. Phil Student, Edward Grey Institute of  Field Ornithology, Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford; Dr. Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Business Sustainability,TERI University, New Delhi

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi

Kindly please bring a cloth/jute carry bag to take away sapling which will be presented to each participant

An exhibition of abstracts in Chinese black ink
By Rajinder Kumar Saini from Delhi
 
Preview on Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 18:30

Panelists: Prof. J.B. Shah, Director, L.D. Institute, Ahmedabad; Prof. Jagat Ram Bhattacharya, Professor of Prakrit Studies, Visva-Bharati University; and Samani Charitrprajna, Vice-Chancellor, Jain Visva-Bharati University, Ladnu, Rajasthan
 
Chair: Dr. G.C. Tripathi, Director, Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology

PANELISTS: Mohan Guruswamy, strategic analyst; Vikram Sood, former head of RAW; T.C.A. Rangachari, former Indian Ambassador and Claude Arpi, Tibet expert

Moderated by Vijay Kranti, senior journalist

Theme: China is India's biggest trading partner, but it's also the biggest security threat. India has been arming herself to the teeth in the Himalayas since the emergence of the new assertive China. But the plateau from where the dragon breathes down the Indian Himalayas was a country which played the buffer zone for centuries – Tibet. Running the military occupation of Tibet China has the advantage of controlling the numerous Tibet rivers that feed more than two billion people in Asia. But the key to Tibet's security - His Holiness the Dalai Lama lives in India.
 
 

Panel: Prof Ashish Nandy, Shri Rajiv Vora and Geshe Pema Dorjee

Theme: More than China, Tibet is tested of its cultural and spiritual resilience by globalization, everybody is. The homogenizing factor that has levelled cultures and countries world wide to a single narrative is feared and at the same time celebrated by some. The pastoral and nomadic Tibet, it's enduring Buddhist culture has survived China's cultural revolution, how will the younger generation balance between tradition and modernization?

By Vivian Doskow