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

By Kateryna Gavrylova, well known artist from Ukraine, currently with Guangzhou Opera House Art Studio
 
Programme includes works by Bach, Beethoven and Schumann

Antibiotics - How Much Do I Need Them?
 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Lok Nayak & G.B. Pant Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
 
Panelists: Dr. Rita Sood, Professor of Medicine at AIIMS New Delhi;  Dr. R.K. Gattani, Medical Consultant with Kailash Hospital, NOIDA; and Dr Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
 

Appreciating the Contributions of Pandit Ravi Shankar to the Modern Sitar and It's Playing Style
By Stephen Slawek
 
Illustrated lecture and demonstration by Stephen Slawek who will discuss the late Ravi Shankar’s unique contribution to Hindustani sangeet, with particular reference to his sitar playing style
 
Stephen Slawek is Professor of Music at The University of Texas, Austin. A disciple of Pt. Ravi Shankar since 1977, he has authored several publications and was formerly Chair, Ethnomusicology Committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies

Challenges of Good Governance
Speaker: Shri N.C. Saxena, former Member, Planning Commission and at present  Member, National Advisory Council
 
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC
 

Speaker : Dr. Darius Cooper, teaches Critical Thinking, Film, and Humanities in San Diego Mesa College in San Diego, USA;  and author of several books including Between Tradition and Modernity:The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (Cambridge University Press,  2000); Guru Dutt and Hollywood Melodrama ( Seagull Books, 2004); Beyond the Chameleon's Skill -  book of poems (Poetrywalla, 2012); The Fuss About Queens and other stories (Om Books, 2014)
 
The talk chronicles how Dr. Cooper became a cinephile or student of cinema aided by cultural establishments in Bombay and the sudden rise and popularity  of the Film Society Movement that took place simultaneously

Inner Recesses, Outer Spaces

By Maitreyi Majumdar from Delhi, disciple of Dr Shanno Khurana

The Himalaya: A Timeless Quest
 
Geographies – Physical and Sacred
An exhibition of photographs, paintings, maps and sacred objects
Curator: Shri Deb Mukharji
Curator for Buddhist Himalaya: Shi Kishore Thukral
                                                                                                                                               
Inauguration by Dr. Karan Singh, President ICCR on Friday, 11 July 2014 at 19:00
 
As part of this exhibition, there will be talks and screening of films on                                  
 
Thursday, 17 July 2014 at 19:00
Kailash and Manas
Illustrated lecture by Shri Deb Mukharji, author of A Quest Beyond the Himalaya
 
Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 19:00                                                                                                                    
Deciphering the Thangka
Illustrated lecture by Shri KishoreThukral, writer-photographer based in Delhi
 
Monday, 21 July 2014 at 18:30 in the Auditorium
Film: Where the Clouds End (52 min; 2013; dvd; English & with subtitles)
Director: Wanphrang K. Diengdoh who will introduce the film
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
First in a series of exhibitions focusing on some aspects of the Himalaya – geography, trade, exploration and the dissemination of ideas, people and a fragile economy