By Eshani Agarwal from Lucknow, disciple of Shri Surendra Saikia

Drugs, Human Trafficking, and Migration
Speakers:  Ms Cristina Albertine, United Nation’s Office on Drugs and Crime; and Ms Tinku Khanna, ApneAap Women Worldwide and Dr. Atul Ambekar
 
Moderator: Dr. S. K. Khandelwal
 
Drugs abuse has become a global problem, and in many places it has assumed an epidemic proportion. Demand and supply chain of illicit drugs has multiple complex issues threatening fabric of the society. It has direct links with problems like human trafficking.  Drugs and human trafficking threaten the human security and development of any country. It has a health angle as most of the people trafficked are vulnerable to violence, sex crimes, and HIV/AIDS. It is a human rights issue as well, since trafficked people are often exploited for forced sex, cheap labour, and drug trade. Organized illegal migration often sees many young people into the prisons, where living conditions are deplorable. Such young illegal migrants frequently have mental health issues, and become victims to drug abuse, and ultimately to HIV/AIDS 

Presented by The Fidelio Trio – Darragh Morgan (violin); Adi Tal (cello); and Mary Dullea (piano)
With Patricia Rozario, soprano
 
The artists will present works by Shostakovich, Jonathan Dove (with verse by Vikram Seth), Haydn and Saint-Saens

Commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s 97th Birthday

Commemoration Service 10.30 am – 11.00 am (Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza)
Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR

Procession from Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza to Deshmukh Auditorium

Mandela Katha Mala 11.15 am – 12.30 pm (Deshmukh Auditorium)
Message from the UN Secretary General to be read by Mrs Kiran Mehra-Kerpelman, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan
Speakers: H.E. Mr France Morule, High Commissioner of South Africa; Shri Satyabrata Pal, former Indian High Commissioner to South Africa; Prof. Ajay Kumar Dubey, Chairperson, Centre for African Studies, JNU & General Secretary, African Studies Association of India; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Followed by an interactive session with students
During the Mandela Katha a short film on Nelson Mandela’s Life shall be screened
Central Court: Exhibitions by National Gandhi Museum on ‘Nelson Mandela’ and ‘The Great March: Gandhi’s Last Satyagraha in South Africa 1913-1914’
Foyer outside Deshmukh Auditorium: An exhibition of paintings by children of Bluebells School International on ‘Madiba and His Struggle’
Organised as part of Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

 Art historian Prof. B. N. Goswamy  on conversation with Dr. Shobita Punja, Smt. Nandini Mehta and Dr. Kavita Singh
 
 Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

An exhibition of Chigiri-e paper art
By Jyotirmoy Ray from Delhi
 
Inauguration by Shri Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art on Thursday, 16 July 2015 at 18:30
 
Chigiri-e is created in collage style from torn pieces of washi paper. It is an artist’s impression of hope that takes its flight to freedom not by rejecting the shattered ugliness but by creating harmony from torn paper

 
Bharatanatyam Recitals
By S. Vijay Kumar from Chennai, disciple of Smt Sujatha Parameswaram
 
At 19:00 pm
By Lokesh Bharadwaj from Delhi, disciple of Shri Justin McCarthy

Bharatanatyam Recitals
By Praveen Kumar from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Smt Narmada and Prof. C.V. Chandrashekar
 
At 19:00 pm
By Renjith Babu from Chennai, disciple of Prof. C.V. Chandrashekhar and the Dhananjayans

Beyond Body, Beyond  Mind: The Mystic Musings of  Lalleshwari  (Lal Ded) – The   Great Saint-Poetess of Kashmir
 
Panel:  Dr. R. K. Bhat, Dr. S. S. Toshkhani and Mr. C. L. Sapru
 
Chair: Prof. B. B. Dhar, President, Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society (KECSS), New Delhi