By Pramantha Mohun Tagore from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Kamal Mullik

Speakers: Prof. Axel Michaels, scholar of Indology and Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg; and Shri Amit Pasricha, well-known photographer and one of the foremost names in Panoramic Photography who will be making a slide presentation

Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

Talk based on their award winning book which documents and explains the manifold religious life in India

Film

Nicholas Nickleby (UK)

(127 min; 2002; dvd; English)

Director: Douglas McGrath

Recipient of the Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble, National Board of Review, USA 2002

With Jamie Bell; Jim Broadbent; Tom Courtney; Alan Cummings; Edward Fox; Anne Hathaway

At 15:00 in Conference Room I

Round table discussion on Dickens and His Afterlives

Panelists: Prof. Regenia Gagnier, Professor, University of Exeter; Prof. Baidik Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi; and Prof. Sambudha Sen, University of Delhi

At 17:30 in the Auditorium

"˜Please Sir, May I Have Some More?' - An Evening with Oliver Twist and Other Worthies

Presented by Aching Shaiza, Mino Maneckshaw, Reuben Israel

Accompanied on the piano by Kyoko Ito

Dicken's unromantic portrayal of criminals and their sordid lives is relieved by his tongue-in-cheek humour. The presentation includes readings from the novel and dramatized songs from the 1970s musical using illustrations by George Cruikshank, Dickens' contemporary and the original illustrator of most of his books

Film screenings at 10:00 & 12:30

A Tale of Two Cities (UK)

(117  min; 1958; dvd; English)

Director: Ralph Thomas

With Dirk Bogarde; Dorothy Tutin; Cecil Parker; Stephen Murray

At 12:30

The Pickwick Papers (UK)

(109 min; 1952; dvd; English)

Director: Noel Langley

With Hermione Gingold; Kathleen Harrison; James Hayter; Nigel Patrick

From 10:30 to 13:30 in Gandhi-King Plaza

Illustrating Dickens

A workshop for children conducted by Atanu Roy and Deepa Agarwal

At 15:30 in the Auditorium

"What the Dickens!"

An open quiz conducted by Aryapriya Ganguly

At 18:15 in the Auditorium

Of Frogs Expiring and Other Marvels: An Evening of Dickens Reading

Readings by Yatrik - Sunit Tandon, Giti Chandra and others

A three-day festival celebrating the life and work of Charles Dickens. The festival includes talks, discussions, workshop, readings, concert, quiz, film screenings of adaptations and an exhibition. Films courtesy British Council Division

Charles Dickens: Pictures from Italy

An exhibition of contemporary paintings based on Charles Dickens' 1840 travelogue to Italy and France

Paintings by Livia Signorini

On view in the Foyer outside the Auditorium until 23^rd February 2014

Charles Dickens Collection

An exhibition on posters, frontispiece

On view in the Quadrangle Garden until 23^rd February 2014

At 18:30 in the Auditorium

Dickens and India

Inaugural lecture by Shri Girish Karnad

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

An Uncertain Arc: Impressions of India's Design Century

Illustrated lecture by Itu Chaudhuri

Design has come into focus in present day India. It is seen as a source of competitive advantage, as a business resource, as a development resource and even an expression of soft power. In popular culture, the concept is more "˜available' than at any other time. The lecture is an attempt by a practitioner designer to give a clearer shape to the practice of design and tracing the trajectory of its development. Necessarily personal, the speaker draws on images and moments that he finds illuminating how design is practiced and consumed

By Moumala Nayak from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Birju Maharaj

Kabir in the Thumri Repertoire

Illustrated lecture by Vidya Rao, well-known vocalist

Health Advertisements - How Misleading?

Keynote speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & associated with Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals; and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India

Panelists: Dr. (Smt) Najma Heptullah, MP, former Deputy Chairperson, Rajya Sabha; Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India; and Shri Suhas Borker, Director, CFTV

Second in the series Healthy Medicine organised in collaboration with Consumers India

Opening remarks: Shri Jaipal Reddy, Minister for Science and Technology

Presentations by P.M. Bhargava, well-known scientist and former Chairman, National Knowledge Commission; and Chandana Chakrabarti, communications expert, columnist and writer, co-authors of the new book of the same title

Panel discussion

Panelists: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet and former Secretary of Culture, Ministry of Culture; Prof. K. Kasturirangan, Member, Planning Commission; and Shri Sunil Kothari, dance critic

Screening of the film

M.F. Husain's Vision 20^th Century

Paintings by M.F. Husain with interpretation by Dr. P.M. Bhargava