An exhibition of water colours on paper by Santanu Roy from Kolkata

Opening on Friday, 14th June 2013 at 18:30

Advaita Vedanta
Speaker: Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor, Ramakrishna Vivekananda University

Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra

Speaker: Shri Chandran Nair, Founder and Chief Executive, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and author of Consumptionomics

Chair: Dr. Shekhar Shah, Director-General, National Council of Applied Economic Research

Speaker: Brig. Dr. S. Sudarsanan, Consultant (Psychiatry) and formerly Professor & Head, Dept. of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

Vitamin D deficiency is rising alarmingly in the Indian population especially among women and children. This vitamin is essential for Calcium absorption, mineralization of bones and has an important role in immunity and cell growth. Vitamin D deficiency is closely related to various physical disorders including cardio-vascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and psychiatric disorders. Vitamin D deficiency is easily preventable by disseminating information on the need of exposure to sunlight

An exhibition of paintings by Mohit, from Delhi

Inauguration by Shri Satya Paul, well-know fashion designer on Friday, 7^th June 2013 at 18:30

An engaging and innovative performance that freely mingles songs and stories and is a re-telling of stories, episodes, moments, anecdotes from the epic along with rendering of classical music that captures the emotions of the Navarasas

Presented by V.R. Devika, renowned Chennai-based storyteller and Sushma Somasekharan, Carnatic Vocalist
Accompanied by Akshay Ananthapadmanaban on mridangam and kanjira

Illustrated lecture by Sudha Mahalingam, travel writer and photographer who will speak about her recent trip to the unique islands which played a key role in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution

Chair: Shri Ravi Singh, CEO, World Wide Fund for Nature-India