Two books will be discussed – India’s Rise as A Space Power by U.R. Rao (New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2014); Reaching for the Stars: India’s Journey to Mars and Beyond by Pallava Bagla and Subhadra Menon (New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2014)

Panelists: Prof. Yashpal, former Chairman UGC; Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar, Senior Research Fellow, National Maritime Foundation; and Dr. Ajay Lele, Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses

Chair: Dr. Shailash Nayak, Secretary, Dept. of Earth Sciences

 

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Mt. Everest climb the living legends of the 1965 epoch-making team which rejuvenated a whole generation, including Leader Captain M.S. Kohli, Deputy Leader Col. N. Kumar, and Summiteer Major H. P. S  Ahluwalia, will relive their golden moments on Everest. Excerpts from their highly acclaimed original film with music by Shankar Jaikishan will be screened 

 

An exhibition – seminar – demonstration organised by the print artisans of Kachchh and Khamir. The exhibition is a forum for the block and batik print artisans to share their history, their story, and their craft in their own language. It is an attempt to tell the story of printing as it unfolded on the banks of the Indus to its modern multi-faceted practice

 

Inauguration  by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan on Tuesday 7 April 2015 at 18:00 followed by a Seminar in Annexe Lecture Room II

 

Panelists:  Meera Goradia; Rauf Khatri; Shakeel Khatri; and Junaed Khatri 

Moderator: Ritu Sethi

 

A demonstration/guided tour on Ajrak Block Printing and the Understanding of Natural Dyes

Will be held 8 – 12 April 2015 from 11 am to1 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm

 

By Prof  Dennis B McGilvray, Professor Emiritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

 

A multilingual reading in Urdu, English and Hindi of personal letters written to/from Lucknow along with some contemporary newspaper reports and essays that provide glimpses of the lived experiences of the city since the ‘ghadar’ of 1857 to present times. The readings are accompanied by images of original manuscripts, letters, buildings and the people who wrote them

 

Presented by Saman Habib and Sanjay Muttoo

 

Architecture of Delhi: Modern to Contemporary

Illustrated lecture by Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai

 

Chair: Itu Chaudhuri

 

Anupam Bansal and Malini Kochupillai are the authors of Delhi, Architectural Guide (DOM, 2013). Anupam Bansal is a practicing architect in the firm ABRD Architects. Malini Kochupillai is an architect and photographer who teaches at the Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon

 

Pran Nevile pays tribute to K.L. Saigal, the Ghazal King 

 

followed by a Concert by Dr Gaurav Sood

An illustrated presentation by Dr. Mohammed Qasim, well known homoeopath

 

Chair: Dr. Anita Sehgal, Eye specialist

The exhibition examines the work of architect Gordon Sanderson, 1887-1915, who served as an officer of the colonial archaeological department from 1911 until his death in 1915. The exhibition highlights, through one, truncated, early twentieth-century life and work, the interconnected nature of biography, archaeology, art, architecture, authority and scholarship in the British Empire

 

The exhibition includes text panels and images drawn from colonial archives, private family records, and the extensive corpus of Sanderson’s architectural drawings composed in Britain, Egypt and India

 

Curator: Dr. Deborah Sutton, Lancaster University, UK

Designer: Siddhartha Chatterjee, seechange

 

Inauguration by Prof. Shahid Amin on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 18:30