Speaker : Shri Rahul Dravid, cricketer and former captain of the Indian Cricket Team

 

Chair: Shri Ayaz Memon, Consulting Editor,  NewsX and  columnist  for Dainik  Bhaskar Group, Hindustan Times, Mint, Mail Today, Deccan Chronicle/Asian Age and Times of India

 

An exhibition of poetry and paintings – poetry by Abhay K; with paintings by Tarshito

 

Inauguration by Shri Dinkar Asthana, Dy., Director-General, ICCR on 20 January 2015 at 18:30
 

“The exhibition evokes the spectral yet palpable histories of Delhi, as well as its vibrant, insistent, kaleidoscopic and paradoxical present” – Ranjit Hoskote

 

Speaker: Dr. Seyed E. Hasnain, J.C. Bose National Fellow, Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, IIT (Delhi)

 

DNA has emerged as the most important molecule of the century with direct applications in health; GM foods and GMOs; creating new living forms in the test tube carrying designer genes for use of bio-pharmaceuticals, energy source or bio-remediation of environmental pollutants; genetic fingerprinting and forensics, etc. With a large number of DNA tests available for ‘predictive medicine’ several companies are cashing on the value of personalized genomics for better human health. Tracing human migration and evolution are some other examples of applications of DNA. With scientists trying to play God and even the basic social notion that “Mother is a Mother is a fact, Father is a Father is a belief” being questioned, judges are now grappling with unprecedented issues centred around DNA and the new Biology

Ms Savita, taxi driver from Delhi; Ms Chanda Yadav, former District Panchyat Pramukh from Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh; and Ms Seema Khan, women group leader from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh will share their struggles, experiences and their challenges

 

Chair: Ms Jaya Shrivastava, children and women’s rights activist and gender trainer

Ms Yashoda Singh and Ms Baby Haldar will share their experience as writers

 

Chair: Ms Urvashi Butalia

By Nicolaus Schmidt from Germany

 

Gypsy Music

An Illustrated talk by Dr. Punita Singh 

“Gypsy" and "Music" are words that pair together harmoniously but conjure up different images and sounds for different people.  From traditional Romani songs associated with events, festivals and rites of passage, to music expressing existential angst; from syncopated foot-tapping Flamenco to Manouche Swing and Gypsy Jazz; from Hungarian Cigányzene, Romanian L?utari, Fanfare and Manele, to Bulgarian Chalga and Balkan Pop, gypsy music defies being confined within boundaries. In this illustrative talk, Dr Punita Singh will present an overview of the diverse genres and hybrid styles often clubbed under the rubric, “gypsy music". The India connection and influence of gypsy music on western classical composers will also be discussed 

Punita is a musicologist, linguist, psychoacoustician, editor and educator based in New Delhi. Special areas of interest and expertise include Christian sacred music, music of the Renaissance, twentieth-century music, Flamenco, and contrastive aspects of Indian and Western classical music 

Readings by Dr. H.K. Kaul,  Shri Keki N. Daruwalla, Dr. J.P. Das, Ms. Mandira Ghosh,  Ms. Rachna Joshi,  Ms Sagari Chhabra, Dr. J. Bhagyalakshmi, Dr. Tarannum Riyaz, Dr. Rita Malhotra, Dr.LavlinThadani, Ms. Mamta Agarwal, Dr.Tanuka Endow, Dr. Rumki Basu, Abhay Kumar, Ms. Rashmi Anand, Ms. Sanjula Sharma, Mrs. Ruma Sharma, Ms. Kavita Singhal; Smt Usha Malik; Prof. Parimal K Brahma, Mrs. Nibedita Sen and Ms. Mayura Tiwari

 

Chair: Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar

 

A discussion on Professor T.K. Oommen’s new book on the various forms of social and economic exclusion that persist in contemporary India and how they may be remedied 

 

Panelists:  Prof. Satish Deshpande; Prof. Valerin Rodrigues; and Shri Harsh Mander

 

Chair: Prof. T. N. Madan

 

Introduction: Dr.Usha Mujoo Munshi, Librarian, IIPA

 

Speakers: Professor Debal K. SinghaRoy Professor of Sociology, IGNOU; Mr. William Middleton, Information Resource Officer and Chief, American Centre, New Delhi;  Dr. Biplav  Srivastava, Sr. Researcher and Master Inventor, IBM Research Centre, India;  and Dr. Praveen Arora, Advisor/Scientist  ‘G’ and Head, National Science and Technology Management Information System (NSTMIS)  

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee