By Anupriya Deotale from Delhi, disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Pt. Mukesh Sharma

 

Speaker: Dr. Amit Aslam Khan, Senior Consultant, Interventional Neuroradiology, Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre

Chair: Prof. Ranjit Roy Chaudhury

An exhibition of folk art from the collection of the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India Ltd. (Trifed). On view will be Pithora ritual paintings; Gond art; Saura ; and Warli paintings

Opening on Tuesday, 7^th January 2014 at 18:30

Panelists: Prof. Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Prof. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Associate Professor of Sociology and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Prof. Linda Herrera, Associate Professor of Education Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign

Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

(95 min; 2008; dvd; English)

Director: Velcrow Ripper

Recipient of the award for Best Documentary Feature - Special Mention; and Most Popular Canadian Documentary, Vancouver International Film Festival 2008

In these times of crisis, is change possible? Acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper sets out to discover the power that is released when spirituality and activism meet. Sparked by what Gandhi called "soul force" and Martin Luther King called "love in action", Ripper spotlights remarkable individuals who are taking action from the heart

From Ashoka to Jayavarman VII - Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Buddhism and the State in India and Southeast Asia

Speaker: Prof. Hermann Kulke, German historian and Indologist

Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

Speaker: Prof. John Echeverri-Gent, leading political scientist and Associate Professor, Woodrow Wilson Chair, University of Virginia. His books include The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States (University of California Press, 1993), and Economic Reform in Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy and the USSR, China, and India (Transaction, 1990)

A lecture by Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

Introduction: Sadia Dehlvi

A world renowned teacher of the Sufi path, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani serves as a guide and teacher to millions around the world. He has spent his life spreading the teachings of peace, tolerance, respect and love; that are the defining principles of Islamic spirituality

Presented by Keystone State Boychoir, Pennsylvania USA

Music Director: Joseph P. Fitzmartin

The choir founded in 2001 consists of more than 150 young men between the ages of eight and 18 who sing a repertoire ranging from classical to contemporary. The Boychoir is counted among the finest, most successful community - based boychoir choral programmes in the USA