Speaker: Dr.Subhash Airy, Ph.D., Senior Consultant and Founder, Nutra ProActive, LLC , USA who worked in the United States for over forty years in every facet of research and development of new therapeutic pharmaceutical drug products from conception to marketing

Chair: Dr. Bharat Wariavwalla
 

Da Vinci’s scientific researches were hardly known or understood beyond his immediate circle, and it was not until the 19th and 20th centuries that the thousands of pages of his notebooks were properly examined in the field of optics, geology, botany, hydrodynamics and human anatomy. The talk will look at  how Leonardo da Vinci’s initial observation in 1508 about cirrhotic liver laid down the foundation towards the development of new medicines

 

Prof. Alok Bhalla, Dept. of English, CIEFL, Hyderabad (Retd.) and Visiting Professor of English at Jamia Milia Islamia and Ambedkar University, Delhi; Ms Averee Chourey, scholar, theatre professional and artiste; and Dr. Suchita Gupta, Incharge of Cultural Council, University of Delhi will discuss Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations by Malashri Lal (New Delhi: Sage, 2015)

Chair: Prof. Indra Nath Choudhuri, former Member Secretary and Academic Director, IGNCA, and former Chair of Tagore Studies, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland

 

Waste Management Strategies

Speaker: Prof. D. P. Aggrawal, Former Chairman, UPSC

 

The programme includes Slogan Writing Competition Results and Awards for students

 

 

Musical Revolution: The Symphonies of Beethoven 

Presentation by Karl Lutchmayer,  British-Goan Steinway pianist, lecturer and writer 

 

 

Remembering Friends

Paramjit Singh, Manu Parekh and Amitav Das

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

 

Amazon Expedition – III (Brazil)

Source of the Amazon I & II

(60 mins; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Produced for Brazilian TV 

 

Third in the series of films on the Amazon, presented by journalist, Paula Saldanha and biologist, Roberto Werneck who led the first television crew to reach the source of the Amazon river. In 2007 Paula Saldanha and a team of researchers and documentary filmmakers examined, recorded and marked out on top of the 5597 meters Nevado Mismi in southern Peru, the place considered the most remote point of the Amazon river. The film records the nearly seven thousand kilometers of the Amazon’s course, from the true source in the southern Peruvian Andes to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean

 

Piano recital by Karl Lutchmayer, Steinway artist

 

Works by Chopin, Scriabin, Liszt and Ravel

An exhibition of black and white photographs

By Sumit Basu from Kolkata

 

Inauguration by Shri Rajiv Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art on Wednesday 22  April 2015 at 18:30

 

Balancing the States of Mind

Speakers: Prof. Ramesh Bijlani, Sri Aurobindo Ashram; Prof. Ishawar Basavaraddi, Director, Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga

 

Moderator: Dr. S. K. Khandelwal

 

Despite rapid and exponential advances in the field of neurosciences to understand mental symptoms and disorders, we are still far away in understanding the cause of various mental phenomena causing distress in the society. Drug industry has been dishing out new drugs at a very rapid rate, yet the limitation of efficacy of psychotropic is now being seriously debated in scientific literature. These drugs have very limited role in life style disorders, and have practically no role in preventive and promotive aspects of mental health. It is now being increasingly validated scientifically that stress can be tackled through simple, practical, and traditional and spiritual techniques to integrate biological, psychosocial and spiritual health to enhance mental health