(100 min; 2006; dvd; English and with subtitles)
Director: Yousuf Saeed, who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
A Delhi-based filmmaker spends half a year travelling across Pakistan, trying to understand how the state of Hindostani classical music has fared after 1947 and Partition. He discovers that cultural revisionism has wrested some of the tradition from the people of Pakistan. From Lahore to Karachi, Khayal Darpan not only presents some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of classical music Pakistan, it describes how innovative ways have been utilised to keep traditions alive. The film raises fascinating questions about cultural identity, nationalism and the survival of Hindustani classical music in South Asia

An Exhibition of photographs by Raghu Rai on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2014
 
Inauguration on Friday, 20 June 2014 at 18:30
 
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) India is holding a photo exhibition of the photos taken by the famous photographer, Mr Raghu Rai on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2014. UNHCR India has collaborated with Mr Rai to take pictures of the refugees living in India. The pictures shot by him are of various refugee communities including refugees from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Somalia. The photos show the lives of the displaced as well as depict the humanity and resilience of people forced away from their homes.
UNHCR India works in collaboration with the Government of India in supporting refugees and asylum seekers who come to India to seek safety from persecution in their own countries.
 
The exhibition tells the story of the different refugee communities living in India - from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Tibet, Sri Lanka and Somalia. The photographs bear testimony to the resilience and courage of the displaced who come to India to seek safety from persecution in their own countries
 

AThathwamasi – Eye on Periyar Tiger Reserve and Sabarimala

An exhibition of photographs by N.P. Jayan from Bangalore

Curator: Smt Uma Nair

 

Inauguration by Shri Suresh Gopi on Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 18:30

 

The exhibition focuses on the year-long Sabarimala pilgrimage and its effect on the biodiversity of the rich forest that surrounds the temple

The Development of the Classical Symphony                                                                                                                       
  An illustrated lecture by Sunit Tandon, noted theatre and television personality and is currently the President of the Delhi Music Society
The symphony is among the most important forms of western music. This talk will attempt to outline the evolution of the symphony from its early Italian origins into the most demanding forms of orchestral expression for the great Austro-German classical composers, particularly Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven

By Balswaroop Rahi, poet
 
Chair: Shri Laxmi Shankar Bajpai

Director: Rajeev Chaurasia
 
Film courtesy: Films Division
 
The film looks at seven decades in the life of flute maestro, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. It closely follows the journey of this extraordinary musician who triumphed against all odds to achieve that one thing closest to him

My Occupation My Health                                                                                                                                               
 Keynote Speaker: Dr. T. K.  Joshi, Consultant, Environment & Occupational Health, Member-Secretary, IVPSS, Maulana Azad Medical College
Panelists: Dr Ved Chaturvedi, Lt General, Armed Forces Medical Services, Army  Hospital, New Delhi; Dr AK Aggarwal, Professor of Excellence (ENT), Maulana Azad Medical College; Additional DGHS, Ministry of Health & FW and President, Delhi Medical Council and Dr Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
Moderator: Dr Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & GB Pant Hospital and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
 

By Aiswaria Warrier from Vadodara, disciple of Dr. Sucheta Chapekar, Kalamandalam Saraswati and      Shri K.N. Panikkar

Speaker: Professor Ian Lipkin, Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and Director, Center for Infection and Immunity, Columbia University, New York, USA.
 
Chair: Prof. G.P. Talwar, former Director National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi
In 1944, Oswald Avery together with Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty made the landmark discovery that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and not proteins carry genetic information and are therefore the basis of inheritance.  In the 70 years since Avery’s discovery, DNA has come a long way. Besides being the basis for major discoveries in biomedicine, the genomes of humans and many other species have been fully sequenced providing many fascinating insights into evolution and behavior. DNA is now being developed as a medium for computing, nanorobotics and nanoelectronics. The technologies developed to sequence DNA have also provided a powerful platform to discover new life forms, especially new pathogens that mysteriously cause disease in human and other species
(Collaboration: The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance)