The Light and the Dark: Balancing Acts  

By Andy Conner, a performance poet from Birmingham, UK. Long established on the British poetry scene, his anthology, ‘Red,’ is published by Dynamic Press and his work has been included in numerous publications.  A compelling live artist, Andy has appeared around the UK and Europe, both on stage and on radio. His credits include BBC Radio

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul

  

 

Need for an Ecological Civilization in India

Speaker: Dr. V.S. Vijayan, Salim Ali Foundation, Kerala

 

The artistic life of the Gond Pardhan community

An exhibition presented by Dr. Arti Agrawal and Dr. Rekha Shrivastav

 

Paintings by Deepika Te Kaam; Dhanaiya Bai; Dhaneshwari  Marwi; Kamla Shyam; Mangli; Rambai Te Kaam; and Santoshi Te Kaam

 

Preview on Friday, 8 January 2016 at 18:30

 

Speaker:  Dr. Shuvendu Sen, Director, Medical Education, Associate Programme Director, Internal Medicine , Raritan Bay Medical Centre, Rutgers University Affiliate, USA; author of  A Doctor's Diary: Reflections on Health, Healing and Hope

 

Chair: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director- Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi 

 

Every disease has an early stage.  Challenge of modern medicine and the key to long lasting health rests on our ability to recognize and treat those slender hints

 

The subject of the 2nd symposium is 'de-professionalisation' - the urge, as a creative practitioner, or, indeed, a practitioner of any kind, not to be identified with one genre or activity, and to be, in general, a critic of specialisation

 

Speakers include Prof Ashis Nandy, psychologist, cultural commentator, honorary fellow, CSDS; Jeremy Deller, one of Britain’s leading artists and winner of the Turner Prize; Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, poet and essayist; Nikil Saval, writer and editor of n+1; Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and editor, Indian Express; Peter D McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literatures, Oxford University; Sunetra Gupta, novelist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford University; Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Jon Cook, Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia, critic and biographer; and Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of East Anglia

 

 

 

Library Science (LIS) Education in USA and India: The Present, the Past and the Future Perspective

Speakers: Prof. K.S. Raghavan, DRTC, Bengaluru; and Dr. Elizabeth Cramer, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC

 

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