Skill India

Speakers: Shri Rohit Nandan, Secretary, Ministry of SD&E; and  Shri Manish Sabarwal, Chairman and Co-Founder, Teamlease

 

Chairman: Shri M.C. Verma, Former Technical Advisor

 

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

The Dark Road (65 minutes) 

Directed by Feisal Alkazi

 

Dramatization of a novel by Ma Jian. On the artery of China, the Yangtze, a young teacher Kongzi and his wife try to find refuge, seeking to escape from the one child policy. Poignant, poetic, dramatic

 

With Gayatri Khanna, Ashish Dhameja, Gunjan Sharma, Dhaatri, Deepak Adhar, Ritvik Mohan Bhagat, Aashna Arora, Dhruv Chugh, Tushar Shandilya and Vishnupriya

 

(Collaboration: Ruchika)

 

 

Includes talks, questions and answers, guided meditations, exercises in stress reduction and relaxation, mindful consumption, and practices to restore and maintain good communication.

 

Led by a group of teachers from the tradition of Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, including a group of monastics from Plum Village, France and Deer Park, USA

 

Do please bring a packed lunch with you

 

(Collaboration: Ahimsa Trust)

 

 

 

Searching for the Sun

A poetography exhibition presented by The Indiestani Project

With photographs by Akriti Sondhi; and original poems by Shubhodeep Pal

 

Inauguration on Friday, 7th October 2016 at 18:30 with 
 

Performance Poetry

By Slam Out Loud – a spoken word group that brings poetry to children  

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

 

 

INSTITUTION AS ABHYAS

 

Off Stage with Namita Gokhale, Sanjoy Roy and William Dalrymple

Chair: Dr. Alka Pande

 

(Collaboration: Lila Foundation for Translocal Initiatives)

 

 

From Geeta Roy to Geeta Dutt

Pran Nevile pays tribute to the legendary playback singer 

followed by a concert by Dr Meelu Verma

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

 

 

ART MATTERS

 

Shubha Mudgal in conversation with S. Kalidas

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

 

 

 

Cosmetics and Beauty Products – At What Health Costs

Series moderator: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Roopa Vajpeyi, Academic and Consumer Activist

 

Panelists: Shri G.N. Singh, Drugs Controller General (India); Prof S.D. Seth, Chairman in Clinical Pharmacology, ICMR; Dr. D.C. Katoch, Joint Advisor, Ayush, Ministry of Health, Govt. of India; and Dr. Sumant Bharadwaj, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation in association with Consumers India)

 

 

Chikungunya and Dengue: Getting the basics right
 

Speaker: Dr. Hitesh Punyani, M.B.B.S, M.D. ( Medicine), Consultant, Maharaja Agrasen Hospital, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Buddhism in Odisha as Gleaned Through Archaeological Excavations

Speaker: Dr. Jeeban Kumar Patnaik, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Bhubaneshwar

 

Chair: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

Odisha has a rich Buddhist heritage and recent archaeological explorations and excavations have brought to light more than 200 Buddhist sites scattered throughout the length and breadth of the state. The discovery of a series of viharas, stupas, Buddhist cult images and scores of material objects of stone, metal, terracotta amply clarify that  for a long period,  extending from the Pre-Christian era to the 12th  century A.D., these establishments promoted  the cause of Buddhist learning of all sects