Speaker: Dr. Jyotsna Dhawan, Group Leader (Scientist F), CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad and Visiting Senior Professor, DBT Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (in Stem), National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore

 

Chair:  Dr. Anna George, National Institute of Immunology 

 

In the past two decades, much progress has been made in understanding the properties of stem cells from a variety of sources, but much remains to be done before stem cells can be used therapeutically. This lecture will briefly cover the current understanding of stem cell biology and address the hurdles that need to be overcome for their clinical use. The lecture will also  highlight examples of the myths and realities of stem cell applications, touch on the regulatory issues required to ensure their ethical application and hopefully convey some of the excitement in the field of stem cell  science

Speaker: Shri Kiran Rana, a practising sufi who has lived and worked with Fazal Inayat-Khan and is presently a guide or murshid in the tariqa (order) called the Sufi Way

 

Chair:   Dr. Anindita N. Balslev, Fouonder, Forum, Cross Cultural Conservation 

 

The question in this verse by Baba Bulhe Shah – which echoes an earlier poem of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi- arises naturally for everyone who makes the turn toward the inner life. This inquiry into who - or what – we are, our relationship to others, our connection in and to the One, becomes a beautiful deconstruction of self into essence, a transpiring, a joyous awakening. And for hundreds, thousands, over the years, it has been launched by this haunting, dancing, evocative line: “Bulha ki jana…”

 

Managing Subsidies & Expenditure 

Keynote speakers: Dr. Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor – ICRIER; and Dr. Kirit S. Parikh, Former Member, Planning Commission

           

Chair:  Shri Anand P. Gupta, Former Professor, IIM, Ahmadabad

The Lost Years – A Sea Turtle Odyssey – Director: Jeremy Hogarth

 

The Forest Man of India – Director: Ankur Didwania

 

Walking the Mountains – The Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh – Directors: Doel Trivedi & Gautam Pandey

 

Losing Nemo (animation) – Director: Douwe Van De Waf

 

Shifting Undercurrents – Women Seaweed Collectors of the Gulf of Mannar – Director: Rita Banerji

 

Dharani – Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

 

City’s Step Child and The Dump Hill Dreams – Director: Pranab K. Aich

 

Education for Sustainable Development (animation) – Director: Ankit Pogula

 

The Silent Epidemic – Director: Ankita Bhasin

 

Malaria Solutions (animation) – Director: Carina Weber, PAN

 

Chilika – Jewel of Odisha – Director: Shekar Dattatri

 

A Story (animation) – Director: Laxmikanta Jena

 

Three Characters in Search of a Forest – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

The Lost Years – A Sea Turtle Odyssey – Director: Jeremy Hogarth

 

The Forest Man of India – Director: Ankur Didwania

 

Walking the Mountains – The Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh – Directors: Doel Trivedi & Gautam Pandey

 

Losing Nemo (animation) – Director: Douwe Van De Waf

 

Shifting Undercurrents – Women Seaweed Collectors of the Gulf of Mannar – Director: Rita Banerji

 

Dharani – Directors: Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

 

City’s Step Child and The Dump Hill Dreams – Director: Pranab K. Aich

 

Education for Sustainable Development (animation) – Director: Ankit Pogula

 

The Silent Epidemic – Director: Ankita Bhasin

 

Malaria Solutions (animation) – Director: Carina Weber, PAN

 

Chilika – Jewel of Odisha – Director: Shekar Dattatri

 

A Story (animation) – Director: Laxmikanta Jena

 

Three Characters in Search of a Forest – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

A festival of 23 documentaries, shorts and animation films from India and abroad that focuses on different aspects of the environment. The films address issues of biodiversity, climate change, water, sustainability; and livelihoods. The festival also includes a panel discussion. Organised in collaboration with Toxics Link

 

Inauguration

Chief Guest: Smt Shovana Narayan

Introduction: Shri Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link

 

11:00 to 13:30 

Life Force 2  - Director: S. Nallamuthu

Belonging 

Student film workshop conducted by Ankit Pogula

 

Dammed – Directors: Kavita Bahl & Nandan Saxena

The Human Cost – director: Alexandra de Blas

 

14:00 to 15:30

Gaon Chodab Nahi – “We Will Not Leave Our Village” (musical) – Director: K.P. Sasi

 

Ningal Aranaye Kando – “Have You Seen the Aranaye?” – Director: Sunanda Bhat

 

15:30 – 17:00

Panel discussion on Shaping Contemporary Environmental Discourse – The Role of Media

Speakers: Pradip Saha, Director, Damage Control; Maneesh Pandey, Chief of National Bureau, Mail Today; and others

 

17:00 to 20:00

When Every Drop Counts – Director: Rishu Nigam

 

The Song of Niyamgiri (musical) – Director: Nirvi Kalpa

 

The Forgotten Tigers – Director: Krishnendu Bose

 

Curse of Karna – Directors: Nirvi Kalpa & Pranab Doley

 

Earth Witness – Director: Akanksha Joshi

Speakers: H E Laimonas Talat-Kelpša, Ambassador of Lithuania; Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, eminent Hindi Poet and Writer; Prof. Elena Jolanta Zabarskaitė, Director of Lithuanian Language Institute (Lithuania); and Dr. Vidya Shankar Aiyar,  former Executive Editor of CNN-IBN  

 

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, The Poetry Society, India 

Speakers: Dr. Ajay M. Gondane, Jt Secretary, sAARC;; Professor Mahendra P. Lama; and Shri Eric Gonsalves

 

Chair : Shri I.P. Khosla