Release of recommendations of the police and for the police

 

Dramatic presentation focusing on the vital need to change police attitudes to ensure prevention of gender based violence and protection of women in violent situations followed by the launch of Durga kit ( a unique tool to protect women in public spaces) and the NOIDA Mobile Application ( privative intervention on gender based violence )

 

Followed by the discussion on police recommendations arrived at through four consultations 

 

Speaker: Professor Manindra Agrawal, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor, Dean of Faculty Affairs

Indian Institute of Technology,  Kanpur

 

Chair: Professor S.N. Maheshwari former Professor, IIT, Delhi

 

Mathematics, at one level, is just a manipulation of abstract symbols and has no connection with reality. However, when these symbols are mapped to real quantities, this manipulation acquires a meaning, and leads to dramatic effects: almost all scientific achievements can be traced to this association of abstract symbols with real quantities. This talk will consider examples of three different ways in which mathematics has influenced our lives: (i) understanding and predicting natural phenomenon, (ii) manipulating nature, and (iii) design of non-natural phenomenon 

 

All Dhrupad Evening

 

Vocal Jugalbandhi

By Dagar Brothers – S. Nafeesuddin and S. Aneesuddin Dagar 

 Accompanied by Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on pakhawaj 

 

Vocal Recital 

By Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar  

Accompanied by Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on pakhawaj 

 

A children’s film festival organised by the Heritage Education and Communication Service of INTACH and the Helen Hamlyn Trust. The films are on the culture of Delhi and the best of 1500 films made by school children will be presented.

 

Sustainable Urban Governance

Introduction: Shri M.C. VERMA

 

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jagan Shah and Shri Deepak Goray 
Presidential Remarks : Shri Shankar Agarwal, Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development

Welcome Address: Shri Virendra Dayal

 

Message on Harmony by Shri Salim Khan, film personality

 

Chief Guest: Dr. Najma Heptullah, Union Minister for Minority Affairs

 

Screening of  Documentary: India – A Flowering of Faiths

 

Screening of Award-winning films from Public Service Broadcasting Trust

 

Journey to Nagaland (26 min; 2010; dvd; English)

Director: Aditi Chitre

 

Recipient of the Golden Conch for Best Animation Film, Mumbai International Film Festival, 2012; Best Animation Short Film, INFOCOM-ASSOCHAM Excellence in Media & Entertainment Awards, 2011; Best Animation Film & Special Jury Mention for Sound Design, 4th International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Kerala 2011

 

The story of a young girl who is led to a distant land by the force of her visions and her mother’s spirit to discover the latter’s roots, and possibly her own

 

Qissa-e-Parsi (30 min; 2014; dvd; English)

Directors: Divya Cowasji, Shilpi Gulati

 

The film explores the history of the Parsi community, its relationship to the Indian state and association with the city of Mumbai. It strives to understand the Zoroastrian faith, the philosophy to live, laugh and love that is the backbone of the Parsi way of life and what makes it so endearingly unique and beloved.  It is an attempt to understand a community that has always been numerically small, yet, culturally and socially formidable

 

So Heddan So Hoddan (52 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)

Directors: Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar

 

Recipient of the Basil Wright Prize, 13th Royal Anthropological International Festival of Ethnographic Films, Edinburgh, 2013; Best Film, 2nd International Folk Music Festival, Nepal, 2012; Silver for Cinematography, Silver for Sound Design and Silver for Script, Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) Awards, 2010

 

Mustafa Jatt sings Bheths, narratives of longing, sung by the Jatts, pastoral Muslim communities that live on the edge of the Great Rann of Kutch, in Gujarat, separating India and Pakistan. The film is a journey into the music and everyday life of these communities, set against the backdrop of the Rann and the pastoral Banni grass lands

 

Speaker: Dr. Sudha Mahalingam, traveller and travel writer ever in quest of the extraordinary and the exceptional, will deliver an illustrated lecture on Serengeti and Ngorongoro based on her recent visit

 

Chair: Shri Ranjit Lal

 

The seemingly endless plains of Serengeti rimmed by 360 degree horizons and the adjoining Ngorongoro, a collapsed crater in Africa's Rift valley are a veritable Garden of Eden with their profusion of uniquely African wildlife. Serengeti attracts millions of wildebeest, gazelles and zebra and a multitude of other animals - both predator and potential prey - which wander here to give birth and raise their young; Ngorongoro offers a sheltered valley, perhaps a laboratory for wildlife