Quantify to Qualify: The Limitations of Threshold Markers on Social Policy

Speaker: Professor Dipankar Gupta, well-known sociologist

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee

Illustrated lecture by Mr. Allan Vactor, Founder, Sojourn India – A Travel Help Desk
 
The talk focuses on the rich biodiversity of Rajaji National Park created in 1983 by amalgamation of three sanctuaries - Rajaji Sanctuary; Motichur Sanctuary; and Chilla Sanctuary. The park is spread over an area of 820.42 sq km and has the largest area representing Shiwalik Eco-system which is over 10 million years and is very rich in fossils
 
Followed by screening of
 
God on the Edge (46 min; dvd; English)
Film on the urgent and sensitive issue of wild and domesticated elephants; these gentle giants are dying in captivity and in freedom every day
 

Carnatic Duet Vocal Recital                                                                                                                                                             
  By Usha Shankar and Deepa Namboodiri from Coimbatore, disciple of  the late Shri T K Govinda Rao
 
At 19:00
Hindustani Vocal Recital                                                                               
By Saswati Bagchi from Kolkata, disciple of  the late Pt A  Kanan and Pt Bibhuti Bhushan Acharya            

Carnatic Veena Recital                                                                                                                                                           
 By Gayatri Govindarajan Ajay from New York, USA, disciple of Guru Smt. Bhagirathi Narayanaswamy,                              
Guru Smt. Mangalam Muthuswamy and Guru Smt. Shyamala Sajnani
 
At 19:00
Sarod Recital                                                                                                                                                                            
By Debanjan Bhattacharjee  from Kolkata, disciple of  Ustad Ashish Khan, late Ustad Dhyanesh Khan and    Smt Amina Pareira

Indian Plurality: Indian Aesthetics  
Speakers: Prof. Radha VallabhTripathi, Dr. Kavita Singh and Dr. Naman Ahuja
 
Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

By Kalyani Phagre and Vaidehi Phagre from Bhopal, disciples of Guru Bindu Juneja  

Discussion around the book, Edited by Jasleen Dhamija
 
Panelists: Smt Jasleen Dhamija and Ms Monisha Ahmed
 

Director: Wanphrang K. Deingdoh who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
A film that examines Khasi identity in the wake of Partition. After the creation of borders between India and her neighbours in 1947, the movement of foreigners into Shillong began to arouse unrest. A people who had previously moved freely in the Khasi Hills began to be seen as an unwelcome influx, threatening the land and purity of the Khasi race. Where the Clouds end examines tribal identity as a fluid concept which defies man-made imaginations, historical ideals, political definitions and geographic boundaries

5 pm - Tribute by Dr. Kavita A. Sharma, Director IIC