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With Ogyen Palmo, Chartered Accountant, Deloitte, India
Moderator: Damdul Topden

An initiative to provide a platform to young Tibetans in exile to present and discuss their ideas and suggestions to stimulate dialogue and improve networks of the vibrant Tibetan diaspora

G.P. and the Sheikh Abdullah Accord
Speaker: Prof. Mushirul Hasan, historian, Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, Governor, Jammu & Kashmir

Introductory remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary

Keynote address by Prof. Samir Barua, former Director, IIMA
Discussant: Shri R.S. Butola, Chairman, IOCL

Exhibitions, performances, film screenings

 cuisine (FOR IIC MEMBERS ONLY)

(76 min; 2012; dvd; English)
Director: Rudradeep Bhattacharjee

The Human Factor tells the fascinating story of the Lords, a Parsi family of musicians who collectively worked for over 60 years in Mumbai's film orchestras. But the story of the Lords is not theirs alone. It also remains a crucial but obscure chapter in the history of Indian cinema. Using rare archival material, the film provides viewers with a subaltern history of Bollywood

Speaker: Dr. Jamyang Dolma, Head, Clinical Research Department, Men-Tsee-Khang, Dharamsala

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson IIC-Asia Project

Health in general, according to Tibetan medicine is based on the harmony of physical and mental state. Therefore the approach to mental health in Tibetan medicine deals with harmonizing the disturbed mind by understanding the mind, its nature and its connection with the body's principle energies which is basically related to the five elements

No Greater Love (105 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Director: Michael Whyte

A highly acclaimed, multiple award winning documentary, this film is an account of life inside the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in London's Nottinghill. The film offers a unique insight into the closed world of the nuns of the monastery wherein each of the modern world's material necessity is rejected. Interviews with the nuns tell a tale of their faith, their moments of doubt, their belief in prayers and their lives

Three books will be discussed: Let's Call Him Vasu with the Maoists in Chhattisgarh by Shabhranshu Choudhruy (New Delhi: Penguin, 2012); The Third Dimension: Air Power in Combating the Maoist Insurgency by A.K. Agarwal (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2013); and Consultation on the Fifth Schedule and Tribal Rights, Occasional Paper no.1 (New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research, March 2013)

Panelists: Avm Kapil Kak; Shri G.K. Pillai; and Shri E.N. Rammohan

Chair: Shri B.G. Verghese