J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture
23 January 2015, 05:30 am
J. Krishnamurti and the Significance of Education and Culture
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Mr. R.E. Mark Lee, Trustee, Krishnamurti Foundation India and the Krishnamurti Foundation of America. Former Executive Director of the American Foundation for 25 years; Founding Principal of the Oak Grove School in California for ten years ; Principal of the Rishi Valley Junior School for eight years; author of "Knocking at the Open Door: My Years with J. Krishnamurti( Hay House); editor-in-chief of "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti" and "The Book of Life"
Chair: Shri Vishal Gujral
Chair: Shri Vishal Gujral
Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion
16 January 2015, 05:30 am
Ending Manual Scavenging: Time for Actiion
Programme Type
Discussions
This panel will bring together practitioners, policy makers and UN representatives to deliberate on ways to accelerate implementation of “The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013” and strengthen national and state government initiatives for identification and rehabilitation of manual scavengers.
Speakers will include Mr. Ali Anwar, Member of Parliament; Mr. Coen Kompier, Senior Labour Specialist, International Labour Organization; Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho, Member of Parliament (TBC); Ashif Shaikh, Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan; and Mr. R. K. Singh, Chairperson, National Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation; and Dr. Rebecca Tavares, UN Women Representative for India, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of requiring people of a certain caste—and particularly women—to collect and remove human excrement from dry toilets, open defecation areas, and other unsanitary defecation facilities. Despite legal and programmatic interventions by central and state governments, manual scavenging persists and communities historically in the practice continue to be marginalized and excluded socially, economically and politically.
Speakers will include Mr. Ali Anwar, Member of Parliament; Mr. Coen Kompier, Senior Labour Specialist, International Labour Organization; Dr. Vijayalaxmi Sadho, Member of Parliament (TBC); Ashif Shaikh, Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan; and Mr. R. K. Singh, Chairperson, National Scheduled Caste Finance and Development Corporation; and Dr. Rebecca Tavares, UN Women Representative for India, Maldives, Bhutan and Sri Lanka.
Manual scavenging refers to the practice of requiring people of a certain caste—and particularly women—to collect and remove human excrement from dry toilets, open defecation areas, and other unsanitary defecation facilities. Despite legal and programmatic interventions by central and state governments, manual scavenging persists and communities historically in the practice continue to be marginalized and excluded socially, economically and politically.
Lusophonies | Lusofonias
01 February 2015, 05:30 am
Lusophonies | Lusofonias
Works of art from a wide range of artists of different generations, from Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and India. The works that are presented in the exhibition come from the cited collection of lusophonia from Perve Gallery (Lisbon), and is jointly curated by Carlos Cabral Nunes and Miguel Amado
The exhibition introduces the art of lusophonia; making a clear distinction between what was produced before PALOPs independence and the artistic development that occurred after installation of sovereign regimes. Another direction of this exhibition aims to promote the work of new generations of Portuguese-speaking artists. Furthermore, there will be artworks from non-African countries such as Brazil, India and China, who established their artistic division in 1974, the date of regime change in Portugal
MARTYRS DAY
30 January 2015, 05:30 am
MARTYRS DAY
Mahatma Gandhi : 20th Century Prophet
A.K. Chettiar’s documentary film on Gandhi is unique in many ways. It is credited to be the first documentary on Mahatma Gandhi. Shri Chettiar, travelogue writer, journalist and documentary film maker from Tamil Nadu, started working on this project in 1937. With the 50,000 feet film he collected he started editing in the year 1940. The first version was released on 23 August 1940. The documentary was dubbed into Hindi and re-released on the eve of Indian independence on 15th August 1947 under the Presidentship of Dr. Rajendra Prasad. Shri A.K. Chettiar re-edited the film in Hollywood with a commentary in English and screened it in the U.S. in 1953
The film was digitised recently
Dr. Aparna Basu, well known historian and Chairperson, National Gandhi Museum will introduce the film
In Conversation
29 January 2015, 05:30 am
In Conversation
Programme Type
Discussions
Ned Thomas in conversation with Sunandan Roy Chowdhury
Ned Thomas’s memoir Bydoedd (Worlds) won the Best Welsh Book of the Year Award in 2013. Ned Thomas gives a personal perspective on a large slice of Europe’s history, its social and political life. From post-war Germany where his father presided over a British denazification tribunal to Moscow where he worked as an exchange professor at Moscow State University to Franco’s Salamanca and finally back to Wales
Poetry Connections Europe – India
28 January 2015, 05:30 am
Poetry Connections Europe – India
Programme Type
Cultural
Poetry Connections Europe – India
Organised by in collaboration with Literature Across Frontiers, the programme this double-bill programme brings together poets from Europe and India to explore each other’s work through translation and to create a multilingual poetry performance
18:30 Poetry Connections Europe - India
A multilingual poetry performance with Tsead Bruinja (Netherlands), Sian Melangell Dafydd and David Greenslade (Wales, United Kingdom), Heike Fiedler (Switzerland), Miguel Manso (Portugal), and Sampurna Chattarji and Mamta Sagar (India)
Produced by Literature Frontiers, with support from the Camoes Institute, Douwe Kalma Foundation, Dutch Literature Foundation, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Wales Arts International and Arts Council Wales
19:45 Poetry from Poland
Meet three leading Polish poets Julia Fiedorczuk, Dariusz Sosnicki a
Produced by Literature Across Frontiers and Biuro Literackie with support from the Polish Institute New Delhi, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Polish Book Institute
Coordinator: Alexandra Buechler
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
27 January 2015, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Dr. Ruma Satwik, Associate Consultant, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital; Dr. Supriya Bezbaruah, Communications Officer, Communicable Diseases Department of World Health Organisation; and Ms Gita Aravamundan, author and journalist and writer of the book under discussion will discuss, Baby Makers: A History of Indian Surrogacy by Gita Aravamudan (NOIDA: HarperCollins, 2014)
Chair: Ms Karthika, Publisher and Chief Editor, HarperCollins
