Reviving India’s Economy
Speaker:  Shri T.N. Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard
 
Chair: Shri Bibek Debroy

Presented by Hohenlohe Brass Quintet from Germany - Kai Eppler (trumpet); Joachim Spieth (trumpet); Johannes Borck (horn); Christof Schmidt (trombone); and Tobias Raegle (tuba)

An exhibition of Buddhist bhoti and Islamic Urdu calligraphy
By Jamyang Dorjee and Anis Siddiqui




Preview on Thursday, 7August 2014 at 18:30

Film
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: From Reality to Literature
(28 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Enriqueta Cabrera Cuaron
Produced by Canal Once, Mexico


Speakers: Prof. Vijaya Venkataraman, Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Delhi and has researched, published and taught literature of the period of dictatorship and post dictatorship with a special focus on Garcia; Prof. Pradip Kumar Datta, Professor, Political Science at University of Delhi and has worked extensively on communal identity formation in Modern India, internationalism/ cosmopolitanism and history and time; Prof. Sambudha Sen, Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi and has a keen interest in other literatures, and has been teaching and writing on Garcia Marquez and Don Quixote; and Prof. Vibha Maurya, Professor of Hispanic Studies at  University of Delhi , who has specialised in 19th and 20th  century Latin America and has translated many books from Spanish including short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and poems by Pablo Neruda
 
Coordinated by Prof. Vibha Maurya

By Madhyama Segal from Delhi, granddaughter and disciple of Smt Kiran Segal

India in Laos: Conservation of  the Wat Phou Temple                                                                                  
  Speaker : Shri R. S. Jamwal, Superintending Archaeological Engineer, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri Suresh Goel, former Director General, ICCR and Ambassador to Laos

By Abhishek Adhikary and Murchana Adhikary Barthakur from Kolkata, disciples of Pt. Deepak Choudhury and Debu Chaudhuri

Presented by Carlos Fernando Balanta, an exponent of music from the Pacific region of Colombia who plays drums, bongos, bells, clave, the traditional marimba from Colombia with objects, voice and guitar
 

Weather & Climate Forecasts and its Applications
Speaker: Dr Laxman Singh Rathore, Director General of Meteorology , Permanent Representative of India with World Meteorological Organization and Vice-Chair Intergovernmental Board on Climate Service, United Nations
 
Chair: Dr M. Rajeevan, Adviser /Scientist G, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
 
India Meteorological Department is the National Meteorological Agency mandated for operational weather forecast and warning services across the country. In the proposed talk, a brief account of the present status of a) Meteorological observing systems, b) numerical models, c) issuance of operational weather and climate forecasts d) consequences of the expected  weather situation in terms of its impacts and application in sectors such as agriculture and e) meteorological information dissemination directed toward the various internal or external users will be delivered