Discussion around the book, Edited by Jasleen Dhamija
 
Panelists: Smt Jasleen Dhamija and Ms Monisha Ahmed
 

Director: Wanphrang K. Deingdoh who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
A film that examines Khasi identity in the wake of Partition. After the creation of borders between India and her neighbours in 1947, the movement of foreigners into Shillong began to arouse unrest. A people who had previously moved freely in the Khasi Hills began to be seen as an unwelcome influx, threatening the land and purity of the Khasi race. Where the Clouds end examines tribal identity as a fluid concept which defies man-made imaginations, historical ideals, political definitions and geographic boundaries

5 pm - Tribute by Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director IIC

By Kateryna Gavrylova, well known artist from Ukraine, currently with Guangzhou Opera House Art Studio
 
Programme includes works by Bach, Beethoven and Schumann

Antibiotics - How Much Do I Need Them?
 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
 
Panelists: Dr. Rita Sood, Professor of Medicine at AIIMS New Delhi;  Dr. R.K. Gattani, Medical Consultant with Kailash Hospital, NOIDA; and Dr Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
 

Appreciating the Contributions of Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Modern Sitar and It's Playing Style
By Stephen Slawek
 
Illustrated lecture and demonstration by Stephen Slawek who will discuss the late Ravi Shankar’s unique contribution to Hindustani sangeet, with particular reference to his sitar playing style
 
Stephen Slawek is Professor of Music at The University of Texas, Austin. A disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar since 1977, he has authored several publications and was formerly Chair, Ethnomusicology Committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies

Challenges of Good Governance
Speaker: Shri N.C. Saxena, former Member, Planning Commission and at present  Member, National Advisory Council
 
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC
 

Speaker : Dr. Darius Cooper, teaches Critical Thinking, Film, and Humanities in San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, USA;  and author of several books including Between Tradition and Modernity:The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (Cambridge University Press,  2000); Guru Dutt and Hollywood Melodrama ( Seagull Books, 2004); Beyond the Chameleon's Skill -  book of poems (Poetrywalla, 2012); The Fuss About Queens and other stories (Om Books, 2014)
 
The talk chronicles how Dr. Cooper became a cinephile or student of cinema aided by cultural establishments in Bombay and the sudden rise and popularity  of the Film Society Movement that took place simultaneously

Inner Recesses, Outer Spaces