Illustrated lecture by Shri R.S. Bisht, formerly with the Archaeological Survey of India who is excavating at Dholavira

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

Malaria: A Relentless Serial Killer
Speaker: Dr. Amit Sharma, Group Leader, Structural Biology, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi

Chair: Prof. R. Madhubala, Director, AIRF J C Bose National Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Malaria remains a major killer worldwide. This lecture will give a general overview of this disease, its prevalence, its control and its future

Exotic fiction in verse by K.P. Shashidharan, IA & AS, Director General, Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India

Chief Guest: Dr. Veerappa Moily, Union Cabinet Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas

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

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority of India

Chair: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project

Based on archaeological excavations conducted at the sites of Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and Lalitgiri by the Archaeological Survey of India from 1958 onwards, the lecture addresses the complex issue of preservation of the Buddhist heritage keeping in view demands of urban planning and development, on the one hand and the pressures of tourism on the other

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Facing Death (Switzerland)
(98 min; 2003; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Stefan Haupt

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, psychiatrist, achieved international fame through her work with terminally ill patients. She founded a healing centre (later destroyed by arsonists) in Virginia and lectured widely on de-stigmatizing death. Conversations with her form the core of the film and through these, she revists her life, her work and her relationships

Speaker: Gp. Capt. A.K. Agarwal, Senior Research Fellow, USI

Chair: Air Marshal (Retd.) V.K. Bhatia, PVSM, AVSM, VrC & Bar, Member, USI Council and Chairman, Board of Management of the USI Centre for Strategic Studies & Simulation

Director: Aruna Har Prasad who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film does not present a stereotypical portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, but rather looks at him through the eyes of a generation who never knew him. It explores the relevance of Gandhi in modern India through professionals and ordinary people, in urban and rural India. The film highlights what Gandhi was and how he is perceived today

Speaker: Debashree Mukherjee, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Chair: Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU

The talk critically examines the historical figure of Bombay's female film professional, approaching her as a manifestation of, and model for, the urban public woman in 1930s and 40s Bombay. Using scandal as a dense historiographic source, the talk looks at the specific cases of Naseem Banu, Devika Rani and Khorshed Homji