Celebrating International Women's Day 2014
Changing Times-Changing Lives: Voices of Women Poets in India
Poetry reading by Dr. Sukrita Paul (English); Dr. Savita Singh (Hindi); Smt Tarannum Riyaz (Urdu); Dr. Vanita (Punjabi); Dr. Rumki Basu (Bengali); Dr. J. Bhagyalakshmi (Telugu); and Dr. Rita Malhotra, international poet
Chair: Dr. Mridula Garg
Understanding Qawwali: A Symposium Exploring the Plurality of the United Art Form
Focusing on Qawwali, not just as a traditional art form but as a cultural symbol to represent the essence of unity in diversity of India
8th March at 18:30 in the Rose Garden
Qawwali
Live demonstration by traditional Qawwals
THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES
What is Mathematics
Speaker: Shri Balkrishna Shetty, IFS (Retd.), former Indian Ambassador and currently Guest Faculty at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIITD) who is teaching Number Theory and is the author of What is Mathematics (National Book Trust India, 2013)
Chair: Prof. Parvin Sinclair, Director, NCERT