Impressions from the Maha Kumbh Mela 2013
Photographs by Cord Meier-Klodt, Jean-Pierre Muller, and Lalit Verma
 
Preview/opening on Tuesday, 22^nd April 2014 at 18:30
 

Speakers: Peter Negy, Gayatri Sinha and Arun Vadehra
 
Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Conservation of Monuments in Madhya Pradesh – Adopting Minimum Intervention Module
Illustrated lecture by Shri N. Tahir, Superintending Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India, Bhopal

Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, scientist and well-known author

From the Courtesan to the Heroine: The Female Voice in Hindi Film Songs
Illustrated lecture by Shikha Jhingan, Dept. of Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi who is a founder member of Media-storm, an independent women’s film making collective. Some of her documentary films include Health Matters, Living Through Performance, Prisoner of Gender and Born to Sing and has co-directed a twelve-part documentary series on Bombay cinema, The Power of the Image
  

 
Breaking Into New Fields: Women and Sports in Delhi
Details of the programme to be announced on the website
 

Vitamins – Do I need the ‘Multivit’ Supplements?
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. N.K. Arora, Executive Director, The INCLEN Trust International; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India 

 
The Art of Happiness (L’Arte della Felicita; Italy)
(84 min; 2013; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Alessandro Rak
 
Recipient of the Young Cinema Award, Venice Film Festival
 
The adult animated feature The Art of Happiness successfully presents a dramatic family story and its aftermath in the background of a world gone astray. Two brothers. Two continents. Two lives. One single soul. Under a gloomy sky, between apocalyptic premonitions in a Naples at its utmost decay, Sergio, a taxi driver, receives shocking news
 

Discussion around the new collection of short fiction work by Manju Kak (New Delhi: ImprintOne, 2014)
 
Speakers: Prof. Zoya Hasan, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri Amitabha Bagchi, well-known writer; Smt Kaveree Bamzai, Editor, India Today
 

A multimedia performance of traditional music, poetry and audiovisual screening to commemorate the 90^th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Argentina and his extraordinary meeting with Victoria Ocampo
 
Directed by Prof. Ananda Gupta
Narrated by Prof. Gustavo Canzobre