Speaker: Prof. Akio Takahara, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo

 

Miturang Festival

Vocal Recital

By Suhasini Koratkar

At 19:30

Flute Recital

By Pt. Ronu Majumdar

Miturang Festival: 9^th and 10^th March 2014

Vocal Recital

By Bindu Chawla

At 19:45

Mohan Veena Recital

By Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Changing Times-Changing Lives: Voices of Women Poets in India

Poetry reading by Dr. Sukrita Paul (English); Dr. Savita Singh (Hindi); Smt Tarannum Riyaz (Urdu); Dr. Vanita (Punjabi); Dr. Rumki Basu (Bengali); Dr. J. Bhagyalakshmi (Telugu); and Dr. Rita Malhotra, international poet

Chair: Dr. Mridula Garg

Ms Sagari Chhabra, poet, playwright and filmmaker

Focusing on Qawwali, not just as a traditional art form but as a cultural symbol to represent the essence of unity in diversity of India

 

8^th March at 18:30 in the Rose Garden

Qawwali

Live demonstration by traditional Qawwals

 

What is Mathematics

Speaker: Shri Balkrishna Shetty, IFS (Retd.), former Indian Ambassador and currently Guest Faculty at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD) who is teaching Number Theory and is the author of What is Mathematics (National Book Trust India, 2013)

Chair: Prof. Parvin Sinclair, Director, NCERT

A discussion on the Kashmiri and Urdu editions of P.A. Nazareth's book

Chief Guest: Shri N.N. Vohra, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir

Speakers: Shri Yogendra Narain, former Secretary-General, Rajya Sabha; Shri B.G. Verghese, senior journalist; and Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary

Opening remarks: Shri Syed Shahid Mahdi, former Vice-Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

Panelists: Ranjit Lal, author; Sayoni Basu, publisher, Duckbill; Paro Anand, author; and Roshani Jain, student of Shri Ram School, Gurgaon

Moderator: Anita Roy, publisher, Young Zubaan

Some of the toughest, and most exciting writing in the world today is to be found in the "˜YA' (Young Adult) section in book stores - novels on sex, drugs, suicide, racism, cancer, broken homes"¦Is this a trend to be applauded? Should YA authors in India be following suit? What are the dangers - as well as the pleasures- of YA fiction? These and other issues will be raised in the discussion