In Conversation 

Nilima Sheikh in conversation with Gayatri Sinha and Latika Gupta

 

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

 

Salt, Robes and Blood: A Historical Code of Honor and Loyalty that Spread from Spain to China

Illustrated lecture by Stewart Gordon, Senior Research Scholar, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Michigan and author of The Marathas (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

 

Chair: Sunil Kumar, Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi

 

Everyone across North India, Central India and the Deccan knows the term “Namak Halal”, that is, to act loyally to one’s “salt”. And everyone has seen the presentation of a Kashmiri shawl to an honoured guest. Virtually no one realizes, however, that these two seemingly disparate events are the remnants of a vast system of loyalty and honor that allowed men to move across a huge swath of Asia and find employment as soldiers, clerics, administrators, philosophers, even ambassadors

 

CANCELLED

 

To be delivered by Smt Sujahta Singh, Foreign Secretary 

 

Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo – German Societies in India

 

A talk by Shri A.N.D. Haksar, former Indian Ambassador, scholar and translator of several Sanskrit texts including  the Jatakamala

 

Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra

An exhibition of illustrations by Sujata Singh, Suddhasattwa Basu and Mala Marwah

 

Preview on Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 18:30

 

This exhibition brings together three artists showcasing illustration art – published and unpublished, created over the last three decades. The body of work on view highlights the scope and range of illustrations as they interact, illumine and work in tandem with a piece of written text

Speaker: Shri Shyam Saran, former Foreign Secretary and Chairman, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) and former Chairman, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB)

 

Chair: Shri Vijay Naik

 

The third annual lecture organised by IAFAC

Indian Classical Music – Insight into History and Development with Special Reference  to Carnatic Music Appreciating its salient features and the compositional forms

A lec-dem by Dr. Vageesh, a composer and former DDG, AIR , at present consultant with AIR 

 

Future Clean Paradigms for Clean Environment

Speaker: Shri Virendra Singh Verma, former Member, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

 

Chair: Prof D.P. Agrawal, former chairman, UPSC