Speakers: Shri T. S. Krishnamurthy, former Chief Election Commissioner of India; Shri Hardyal Singh, former Income-Tax Ombudsman and Additional Secretary CVC and columnist, Financial Express; Shri Rajeev Kher, former Commerce Secretary and member at the Competition Appellate Tribunal; Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Visiting Professor, Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

First in the Series of seminars on ‘Keys to Governance’ in remembrance of Shekhar Borker, ‘Banana Boy’ on the Indian postage stamp, private sector administrator, citizen environmentalist and advocate of empowerment of persons with disabilities, who passed away last year on 7 January

 

Concert by Chaar Yaar – Madan Gopal Singh (vocalist, poet and composer); Deepak Castelino (guitar & banjo); Pritam Ghosal (sarod); and Gurmeet Singh (percussion)

 

With Joel Bluestein (guitar & vocals); and Timothy Hill (singer/songwriter; guitar & piano)

 

Speaker: Prof. Monika Zin, Department of Indology & Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Chair: Dr. R.C. Agarwal

 

The lecture will provide an overview of the art on the fringes of the Taklamakan Desert; and special reference will be made to the region of Kucha with its magnificent wall-paintings that go back directly to Indian prototypes. It will present the latest, still unpublished results of research and will discuss select examples of the transfer of Indian archetypical image types to the Far East

 

By Keya Chanda, disciple of Smt Rani Karna, Pt. Bachan Lal Mishra & Pt.  Birju Maharaj and Tanmoyee Chakraborty, daughter and disciple of Smt Keya Chanda, from Kolkata

 

An exhibition of paintings by Jaiprakash Chouhan and Sonali Pithawe Chouhan

 

Preview on Tuesday, 5 January 2016 at 18:30

By Gabriele Carcano from Italy, recipient of the 2010 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Scarlatti, Berio and Brahms

 

A discussion on a three-volume compendium of Bina Agarwal’s selected papers

 

Discussants: Professor Amartya Sen; Shri Vikram Seth; and Dr. Renana Jhabvala

 

In Conversation: Dr. Bina Agarwal with Professor Amartya Sen

 

Moderator: Shri Paranjoy Guha-Thakurta

 

Speaker:  Prof. Jens-Uwe Hartmann, Department of Indology & Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

 

Chair: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray

 

The rather special relation between oral and written transmission is a distinctive feature of ancient Indian civilization, and it appears that until the first century BCE script was used only for administrative purposes. According to our present knowledge, the Buddhists were among the first who employed writing for transmitting and preserving their literature. This is suggested by Indic manuscripts that were unearthed about twenty years ago in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These are by far the oldest ever found, and they preserve Buddhist texts