Illustrated lecture by Dr. S.S. Gupta

 

Chair: Professor R.C. Agrawal

 

North East India comprising of seven states also called the Seven Sisters is a vast geographical terrain. The region is home to a large number of ethnic groups and in the religious beliefs, Buddhism has played an important role which is reflected in their living. Extant Buddhist remains including stupas, chaityas, monasteries, temples and sculptural art are revealed in a number of archaeological excavations at Surya Pahar in Assam, Shyam Sundar Tila and Boxanagar in Tripura; and Bhaitbari in Meghalaya

 

Bose an Indian Samurai, Netaji and the INA: A Military Assessment

by Maj. Gen. G.D. Bakshi (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2016)
 
Discussants: Shri Anuj Dhar, author; Shri Iqbal Malhotra, documentary filmmaker; and Col R.S.N. Singh
 
Chair: Brig. (retd.) R.S. Chikara, Netalji Subash Chandra Bose – INA Trust

 

 

By Tanya Vaidya from Vadodara

 

Inauguration by Ms Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre of Science and Environment on Tuesday, 12th July 2016 at 18:30

 

Tanya Vaidya has focused for a decade on creating contemporary paintings using ancient natural dying textile techniques. Her quest has been to bring in spontaneity and directness into the complex process in the paintings

 

 

 

Speaker : Dr. Parmeshwar Arora, Senior Consultant in Ayurveda, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

 

Chair: Dr. Raman Kapur

 

A documentary on the journalist, Saeed Naqvi produced by Rajya Sabha TV

 
Chief Guest: Prof. Taat Ahmed, Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar
 
Shri Saeed Naqvi will also speak

 

 

Speaker: Major General Vinod Saighal, Executive Director of the Eco Monitors Society, a non-governmental organisation concerned with demography and ecology.Details in site www.vinodsaighal.com 

 

Chair:  Shri Shashank

 

All’s Vitthal, Vitthal’s All: The Great Confluence 

Speaker: S. Anand

 

Chair: Gitanjali Kolanad, dancer, writer and professor of Performance Arts at Shiv Nadar University

 

A journey into the world of Abhangs via Bhimrao Ambedkar and Bhimsen Joshi with a few necessary digressions into how musical idiom is shaped by social location 

 

S. Anand is a poet, translator and singer. He is the publisher of Navayana 

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg: Understanding the Mind/Body Connection

(55 min; 2009; dvd; English)

Director: Renard Cohen

 

A film hosted by Dr. Esther Sternberg

 

The Science of Healing introduces viewers to the way the brain helps the body heal, both physically and emotionally. Science is beginning to understand the brain and emotion’s function in healing, a role the ancient Greeks understood and used in their practice. Physician and medical researcher Dr. Esther Sternberg leads us on a journey of discovery through her own personal story of illness and healing as she explores what leading scientists are learning about the mind/body connection 

 

Discover how the senses, environment, diet, exercise, meditation and music impact the body’s ability to heal

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)

 

 

A meditation on solitude

Photographs by Attilio Tripodi from Italy

 

Preview on Wednesday, 6th July 2016 at 18:30

 

(Collaboration: Italian Embassy Cultural Centre)