Pran Nevile speaks on the importance of ghazal on people's music 

 

Followed by  

Concert 

By Dr. Meelu Verma 

Speaker: Professor Nalin Pant, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

 

Chair: Dr. Dinakar Salunke, Executive Director, UNESCO Regional Centre for Biotechnology

 

Hastha Mudras, hand gestures used in classical Indian dance forms, form a distinct code language and bring unique poetic element while performing abhinaya. The language of the mudras thus enables the dancer to express practically anything and everything.  Using unbridled, the license of metaphor, this talk will attempt to illuminate the hidden world of the "Dance of Molecules"- the dance that creates our material world 

Banking Reforms

Keynote Speaker: Shri Pratip Chaudhuri, former Chairman, SBI

 

Chair: Shri D. K.  Mittal, Former Secretary Financial Services

 

Directed by Teena Amrit Gill who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film explores how Theravada Buddhist institutions in Thailand provide a social security network to boys in a country where a large percent of the population are poor, but fail to give girls and women access to these facilities. However, a small nun's institution in the north of Thailand provides girls with an opportunity to pursue their dreams

Re-contextualising Ajrakh textile traditions on Khadi in contemporary art and craft                                                                      

Textile installations, art works, clothing and spoken poetry video art

By Shelly Jyoti

Panelists:  Justice Leila Seth; Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Advocate; Prof. Peter  D'Souza, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Tahir Mahmood; and Shri Seshadri Chari, BJP

 

Moderator: Shri B.G. Verghese

By Srishti Gupta from Bhopal, disciple of Smt Alpana Vajpeyi

 

An illustrated talk on the diffusion of Saivite myths to Southeast Asia by Dr. Sachidanand Sahai, expert  on Indian and Asian cultural relations and Advisor to APSARA Authority, a Royal Cambodian Government  Agency for the Safeguard of Angkor

 

Chief Guest: Shri Kamlesh, poet and art critic

 

Chair: Dr. Ganga Nath Jha, Professor and former Chairperson, Centre for Southeast  Asian Studies, JNU