Askot -Arakot Abhiyan 2014

An audiovisual presentation by PAHAR

The Askot-Arakot Abhiyan is a research trip organised by Pahar once in ten years. The aim of the trip is to know more about the mountains, its villages and their culture. Issues of forests, decentralisation, women’s education, environment and wildlife protection, youth migration ecological imbalance are raised through these trips. The talk will address these issues based on their recent trip and to compare the changes observed every 10 years, the first trip was organised in 1974

The Everyday Lives of Everyday People: Journalism From Below in the Digital Age

Talk and Demonstration by P. Sainath

Salvaged Shadows

An exhibition of recycled metal design, art and installations

By Robin Passi from Delhi

Opening on Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 18:30

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES

The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Plant-Insect Interactions with Giant Silkmoths from NE India

Speaker: Dr. Sudeshna Mazumdar-Leighton, Associate Professor in Botany, Delhi University

Chair: Professor H.Y. Mohan Ram

The old adage “You are what you eat” is particularly suited to caterpillars that grow into butterflies and moths. Plants chosen by caterpillars as food are intricately linked to the history (and success) of their lives as a population, race, and species. Sex, health, war, invasion and communication are all facets influenced by the choice of plants eaten by caterpillars. The giant Saturniid silkworms that feed on endemic species of plants from NE India are a less-understood but a fascinating tropical system to unravel. Lessons learnt from the biology of these insects and their host plants may be useful for improving the traditional vanya silk (Muga and Eri) industries of the region

Child Right: The Way Forward

Speaker : Shri Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Laureate , founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan

TWO CONCEPTS OF PLURALISM: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GANDHI AND ISAIAH BERLIN

SPEAKER: DR. RAMIN JAHANBEGLOO, IRANIAN PHILOSOPHER AND ACADEMIC BASED IN CANADA

CHAIR: DR. SHAIL MAYARAM, CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DEVELOPING SOCIETIES

Two Concepts of Pluralism: A Comparative Analysis of Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin

Two Concepts of Pluralism: A Comparative Analysis of Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin

Speaker: Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Iranian philosopher and academic based in Canada

Chair: Dr. Shail Mayaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

As history goes, Gandhi and Sir Isaiah never met and the latter never wrote any piece on the former. While Isaiah Berlin considered himself principally as a value pluralist, Mahatma Gandhi was described by some as an “integral pluralist”. Unlike many liberals, Berlin wrestled all through his intellectual life with the tension between pluralism and monism, and also between universalism and particularism. He rejected all monistic approaches to the question of truth, but criticized as well the moral relativism inscribed in the modern tradition of thought. As for Gandhi, his astute understanding of religion, culture and politics was envisaged at each level with an argumentation against monistic views and in favour of value pluralism

Malika-e-Ghazal Begum Akhtar Centenary Celebrations

Pran Nevile pays tribute to the immortal ghazal queen Begum Akhtar

Concert

By Smt Rashmi Agarwal

RAZOR SHARP: PROVOCATIVE PLAYS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

The Dining Room (75 min)

Directed by Feisal Alkazi

A visual enactment of A.R.Gurney's play, with Radhika Alkazi, Nandini Sra, Jagmohan, Meenakshi Arora, Gayatri Khanna, Ashish, Rashmi and Jahanara

A protected, innocent world confronts an entirely different set of values

SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY LECTURE

Navdanya: An Experiment in Non-violent Farming and Food

Speaker: Dr. Vandana Shiva, renowned environmental activist

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