Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza
From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium
Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Speaker: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio
Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay
Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker
Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza
From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium
Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Speaker: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio
Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay
Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker
Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza
From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium
Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Speaker: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio
Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay
Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker
Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB
Commemoration of Public Service Broadcasting Day
Commemorating the day in 1947 when Mahatma Gandhi addressed two lakh refugees in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi
Commemoration from 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Plaza
From 11:15 to 12:30 in the Auditorium
Recalling Usha Mehta's Tryst with Freedom
Speaker: Rita Mukherjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio
Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay
Discussion on: Public Service Broadcasting and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker
Broadcasting policy experts, broadcasters, social scientists, academicians, activists and media persons to participate. Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of PSB
CULTURE AS CONTINUUM
The Comic as Continuity
Speaker: Shri E.P. Unny, cartoonist
Chair: Shri Ravikant
Chair: Shri Ravikant
The Silk Roads as Metaphor
Speaker: Dr. Arup Banerji, historian and author of Old Routes: North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands
Chair: Dr. Hari Vasudevan
Even as the term Silk Roads has become a byword for transregional strategic and infrastructural initiatives, its ancestry in the old routes themselves is now tenuous. Was the term itself ever accurate?
On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of the legendary musician, Pt. Kumar Gandharva: 10-12 November 2014
From Sound to Images…and Back
Speaker: Professor B.N. Goswamy, eminent art historian
On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of the legendary musician, Pt. Kumar Gandharva: 10-12 November 2014
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Madhup Mudgal, disciple of Pt. Kumar Gandharva
On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of the legendary musician, Pt. Kumar Gandharva: 10 -12 November 2014
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Kalapini Komkali, daughter of Pt. Kumar Gandharva
Followed by
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Bhuvanesh Komkali, grandson of Pt. Kumar Gandharva
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Prof. Mushirul Hasan, Noted Historian; Mr. Usha Albuquerque, Columnist and Mrs Suneet Mani Iyer; will discuss, two books on Khushwant Singh, Khushwant Singh: Unforgettable Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Humour (New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2014) by David Davidar and Mala Singh and
Khushwant Singh: The Legend Lives On…(New Delhi: Hay House, 2014) edited by Rahul Singh
Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, Former Attorney-General of India
Shri Rahul Singh and Ms Mala Dayal will be present during the discussion