Speaker: Dr. Deepak Natarajan was head of the Cardiology department of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, and Interventional Cardiology departments of several corporate hospitals. He has been cardiologist to the President of India

 

Chair: Prof. Khalilullah 

 

The talk shall underscore the evolution of anti-hypertensive drug treatment based upon controlled trials, and the current position of cardiac societies in the treatment of hypertension. Every third adult in India and more than a billion worldwide suffer from high blood pressure. Half a century of rigorous studies documenting treatment and prevention of heart attacks, strokes and death with drug therapy have however so far failed to identify the lowest goal that is both safe and effective

 

 

Keki Daruwalla, well known poet, in conversation with Rukmini Bhaya Nair

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Partha Sen, Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

Speaker: Prof. Partha Sen, Visiting Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

Introduction: Shri Suhas Borker

 

China has been remarkable in its ability to pull millions out of poverty in an unprecedented short span of time. It now faces a middle income trap – one that a lot of other economies have faced before. China, instead of focusing on how to escape that trap, wants to build a financial capitalist structure. Is that possible? A Communist Party sponsored financial growth? In the meantime, it has also raised the political temperature by engaging in provocative behavior in the South China Sea. If this attempt is to supplant the US, it is not winning any friends in the region. China’s economics and politics are united by hubris. This is bad news for those who see China playing a positive role in changing the existing global order

 

 

Presented by Students of Pramod Kingston 

Recitals by Abhiraj Darbari; Aubhik Mazumdar; Christine Grace Khumukcham; Eric Mervin A.; Esha Bharadwaj; Meher Nandrajog; Nevin Manuel A. ; Rohan Samuel; Samuel Peter; and Tuhina Sharma

 

 

Smt Manjari Sinha, music critic; Smt Shanti Hiranand, well-known vocalist; and Prof. Partho Datta, University of Delhi will discuss Beyond Music: Maestros in Conversation – Interviewers Geeta Sahai and Shrinkhla Sahai (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2015)

 

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Some Lesser Known Monuments of Vidharba

Speaker: Shri T. Alone, Director (Monuments), Archaeological Survey of India

 

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

Directed by Ashvin Kumar who will introduce the screening

 

A film on migrants. Migrants undergo perilous journeys, risking drowning, deportation, arrest, physical and sexual violence in the hope of finding a place of greater safety and economic opportunity in a distant country. Those who survive become nannies, housekeepers and drivers – ever present yet unwilling themselves to disappear into the multitudes of the new country. The film tells the story of three distinct women who undertook this perilous journey in hope of a better life

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Speakers: Ashvin Kumar, Director of the Film; and Christina MacGillivray, Co-Producer and Lead Researcher of the film; Pia Oberoi, Advisor on Migration and Human Right, UNOCHR; Igor Bosc, Work in Freedom Programme, International Labour Organisation; and Karuna Nundy, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

 

 

A programme based on 100 Great Poems for Children, book edited by Deepa Agarwal (published by Red Turtle)

 

Readings by Keki Daruwalla and Anushka Ravishankar

 

Followed by a Quiz

Recitations/Songs/Dance based on the poems in Hindi and Bengali

 

For children between the ages 9-12 years

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

 

Music for the Enlightenment: Jean-Philippe Rameau  

This lec-dem by Justin McCarthy  will look into  the composer as both musician and music philosopher, a guided listening experience 

 

Justin McCarthy is a dancer and musician, teaching and performing Bharatanatyam, piano and harpsichord