Poetry readings in  English, Hindi,  Punjabi and Urdu  by

Anamika,  Mirza Arif,   Dr. Ahmad Ali Barqi Azmi,  Rachna Joshi,  Dr. H.K. Kaul,  Dr. Mohanjit,  Nibedita Sen,  Dr. Vanita and  Dr. Ganga Prasad Vimal

 

Chair: Shri Jagmohan, former Minister for Tourism and Culture, Government of India

 

 

Directed by Julio Ozan Lavoisier who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

The film presents material gathered over a period of fourteen years in the most dense and remote corners of India. The film looks at the doctrine and the Ganges; education and ashrams; art, temples and forts, rituals, marriages and funerals etc.

 

Diversification in Indian Agriculture

 

Introductory Remarks

 By Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary 

 

Keynote Speakers:  Shri Ajay Vir Jhakar, Chairman, Bharat  Krishak Samaj;  and Shri T. Nanda Kumar

Chairman, National Dairy Development Board

 

Presidential Remarks 

By Shri Sompal , former Member, Planning Commission 

 

 

 

Panelists: Prof. Jagdeep S. Chhokar, Founder Member,  Association for Democratic Reforms and former Professor, Indian Institute of Management,  Ahmedabad and others

 

Moderator: Shri  Suhas Borker

 

 

12 November - the day Gandhi ji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day. On this day in 1947 he addressed refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhi ji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast by All India Radio that carried the Mahatma's message of love and fortitude to the suffering refugees 

 

Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza

Followed by

Discussion in C.D.  Deshmukh Auditorium from 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio  Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay

Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and the Constitution of India – Idea and Ideology
 

Lead Presentation by Suhas Borker 

Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB 

 

 

Speaker: Dr. David O. Wiebers, M.D.,  Emeritus Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; a world leader in neuroscience with a transformational message about the intersection of science and spirituality

 

Chair: Dr. J. Veeraraghavan

 

This presentation combines key elements of neuroscience, physics and metaphysical science to allow a deeper understanding of the nature of consciousness and the nature of reality as we experience it.  It provides the scientific underpinnings for profound spiritual wisdom, reaffirming ancient spiritual concepts and understandings while also building upon and expanding them.  The core identity of each individual relative to the body and brain is key since the fundamental nature of individual consciousness is the same as the fundamental nature of the universe.  

 

An exhibition of fantasy stencils and collage based mono-prints

By Mohamed Abla, well-known Egyptian artist

 

Inauguration on Monday, 9 November 2015 at 18:30

 

Shri K.S. Bajpai, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former Indian Ambassador to Pakistan, China and USA; Shri Ranjit Gupta, Member, National Security Advisory Board and former Indian Ambassador to Venezuela, Sultanate of Oman, Thailand and Taiwan; and Shri K.M. Lal, former Chairman, Staff Selection Committee will discuss Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom by Andrew Duff (Gurgaon: Random House India, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, former Member of Parliament  and former Union Minister of Panchayati Raj

 

Awareness of the inner harmony permeating through all 

Creation that accords bliss or aanandam 

 

A choreographic dance presentation by three eminent dancers from Delhi and Mumbai

 

Mohiniattam by Deepti Omchery Bhalla  

Bharatanatyam by Kalashri Lata Surendra  

Odissi by Swapnokalapa Dasgupta 

 

Music Composed by Shri Shivprasad , Mumbai