By Sudip Chattopadhyay from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Debaprasad Banerjee
 

Living with Religious Diversity
Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2013-Spring 2014)
 
Followed by a discussion
Panelists: Prof. Mrinal Miri; Prof. T.N. Madan; and Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan

A photographic project presenting eleven photographers presenting interpretations of Gurgaon through distinctive artistic, documentary styles
 
Photographs by Vaibhav Bhardwaj; Chandan Gomes; Manoj Bharti Gupta; Vinit Gupta; Arvind Hoon; saumya Khandelwal; Natisha Mallick; Aparna Mohindra; Vicky Roy; Ajay Sood; and Monica Tiwari
 
Curator: Aditya Arya
 
Inauguration by Shri Raj Rewal on Tuesday, 1^st April 2014 at 18:00
 
Guest of Honour: Shri Tripurari Sharan, Director-General, Doordarshan

Speaker: Mr. Julio Ozán Lavoisier, well-known philosopher from Argentina
 
Chair: H.E. Mr. Raul Ignacio Guastavino, Ambassador of Argentina

A multi-media presentation on Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, the prolific writer, novelist, journalist, filmmaker and screen writer. The presentation includes clips from some of his memorable films, photographs, his own works and voice, recitation and a recital of songs written by Kaifi Azmi and Ali Sardar Jafri featured in some of his films
 
Presented by Hamari Urdu Mohabbat
Narrators: Zakia Zaheer, Syeda Hameed, Raza Mehdi
Vocals: Rene Singh
Technical Direction: Harsh Kapoor
 

Speaker: Prof. Robin Jeffrey, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; and co-author of the book of the same title
 
The cheap mobile phone is probably the most disruptive communications device in history, and in India its potential to stir up society is breathtaking. The speaker probes the mobile phone universe in India – from the contests of great capitalists and governments to control Radio Frequency spectrum to the ways ordinary people build the troublesome, addictive device into their daily lives

India in Cambodia – Conservation of Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm
Illustrated lecture by Shri Jahnwij Sharma, Director (Conservation), Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

By Lipsa Dash from Delhi, disciple of Guru Bichitrananda Swain, Guru Manoranjan Pradhan and Guru Smt. Aruna Mohanta

Director: Dylan Mohan Gray
Narrated by William Hurt
 
Recipient of the Feature Documentary Award, DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2013; Critics Award – Political Film Prize, Hamburg Film Festival 2013; Justice Matters Award, Washington DC Filmfest 2013
 
An intricate tale of ‘medicine, monopoly and malice’, Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back

Dr. Partho Datta, Dr. Zakir Hussain College; Prof.(Mrrs.) Vijaya Ramaswamy, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU;  and Dr. Kingshuk Chatterjee, Shiv Nadar University will discuss Gandhi Before India (New Delhi: Penguin, 2013) by Ramachandra Guha
 
Chair: Prof. Aparna Basu, All India Women’s Conference