Teaching Odyssey
An exhibition of ceramic creations – flora, fauna and cityscapes
By Sharmishtha Roy
Inauguration by Smt. Ira Chaudhuri, eminent ceramist/potter on Tuesday, 16th December 2014 at 18.30
HEALTHY MEDICINE
Medicine – Stranger than Fiction!
Keynote Speaker: Dr Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Hospitals and Chairman, Advisory Group, Consumers India
Panelists: Dr. Vinay Kamble, former Director, Vigyan Prasar, Department of Science & Technology, GOI; Dr. Ravinder Goswami, Professor & Head of the Department, Endocrinology, AIIMS, New Delhi; Dr. Sandeep Garg, Professor of Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College & Associated Hospitals; and Dr. Jayashree Gupta, President, Consumers India
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Gauri Pathare from Mumbai, disciple of the late Pt. Jitendra Abhisheki and Shri Arun Dravid
THE INDIAN MODERN AND NEHRU
The New Metropolis: Nehru and the Aftermath
Speaker: Shri Romi Khosla, well known architect
Chair: Shri Ram Rahman
The Post - Partition Experience of Sindh and the Sindhis
Panelists: Nandita Bhavnani on Minorities, Property and Displacement: The Sindhi Hindu Experience of Partition
Rita Kothari on Partition in the Western Regions, India
Tarun K. Saint on Some Observations on the Representation of Trauma in Selected Writings About the Sindhi Experience of Partition
Priya Kumar on Home and Diasporic Consciousness in Qurratulain Hyder’s “Sita Betrayed and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography
Rakshanda Jalil on Karachi: Beyond Lies the Sea
Part of the seminar organised by The Department of English, University of Delhi – UGC/DSA III Seminar
Centre for Studies in Violence, Memory and Trauma
Rita Kothari on Partition in the Western Regions, India
Tarun K. Saint on Some Observations on the Representation of Trauma in Selected Writings About the Sindhi Experience of Partition
Priya Kumar on Home and Diasporic Consciousness in Qurratulain Hyder’s “Sita Betrayed and Kamila Shamsie's Kartography
Rakshanda Jalil on Karachi: Beyond Lies the Sea
Part of the seminar organised by The Department of English, University of Delhi – UGC/DSA III Seminar
Centre for Studies in Violence, Memory and Trauma
CULTURE AS CONTINUUM
Health Culture as Continuity
Speaker: Smt Ritu Priya Mehrotra, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Medicine, JNU
INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
The Plunder of India's Past
Speaker: Dr. Kirit Mankodi, author of The Queen’s Stepwell at Patan who is associated with a Project for Indian Cultural Studies founded by Franco-Indian Pharmaceuticals, Private, Ltd., Mumbai
Chair: Shri B.M. Pande
The lecture will consider the loss of India's sculptural heritage through the illegal export of antiquities. This will be done with the help of visuals from such monuments as Atru, Nagda, Bharhut, Patan and others. Some cases where repatriation of smuggled sculptures was possible will also be mentioned
A Very Bengali Passion – Food Beyond the Kitchen
Speaker: Smt Chitrita Banerji, well known food writer who has written extensively on Bengali cuisine
Chair: Professor Pushpesh Pant
The talk examines how food permeates Bengali consciousness and makes its presence felt in literature, songs , idiom, religious and secular rituals
FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
On a Express Highway (30 mins; dvd; 2003; English)
Directed by Reena Mohan
The film traces the journey of a 33-year old woman who gave up the material world for the austere life of a Jain Sadhvi
Autumn in the Himalayas (56 min; dvd; 2008; English)
Directed by Malgorzata Skiba
The film brings to light the story of a group of elderly Buddhist nuns from Ladakh, the last generation of unordained and uneducated women in robes who lead isolated lives as domestic help and construction workers. Neglected by religious and social systems for centuries, the new Nyerma Nunnery is their last call for dignity and enhancement and purification of their religious status
Unified Voices for Gender Equality
Speakers: Seema Kohli, eminent artist; Chitra Mudgal, MP, poet and journalist and others