Speaker: Dr Philip Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies, Dept. of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Iowa

Engaged in a study of the remarkable role that "chai" has come to play in diet, social intercourse and public culture in India, the speaker will look at how changes in manufacturing, marketing and consumption, as also in urban space and social networks, have been responsible for the popularization of tea modified to Indian taste. The talk will focus on how advertising images helped to transmit the "tea habit", both prior and subsequent to 1947

Speaker: Prof Ian Taylor, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Chair: Prof Ajay Dubey, School of International Studies, JNU

Happy
(75 min; 2011; dvd)
Director: Roko Belic

Audience Choice Award, Arizona International Film Festival; Best Documentary, Rincon International Film Festival; Grand Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival; Best Documentary, Mexico International Film Festival

The filmmaker travels from the swamps of Louisiana to slums in Kolkata looking for the real cause behind people's happiness. Combining testimonies by people and interviews with scientists involved in happiness research, the film explores the secrets behind this one emotion that we all value

Sculptures in bronze by Banasri Khan from West Bengal

A self-taught sculptor, Banasri achieves a sophisticated blending of form and content in her bronzes, which are reflective of various rhythms. All her exhibits have an aspect of human interest within a figurative structure

Opening on Monday. 7th January 2013 at 18.30

Prof Veena Sikri, Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia; Dr Rakshanda Jalil, freelance writer; and Shri K.B.S. Chopra, C.G.A. (retd.), Ministry of Finance, discuss The Raj Revisited by Shri Pran Nevile (New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2012)

Chair: Shri Jagmohan, former Governor, Jammu and Kashmir

An exhibition of photographs taken across India and in 18 other countries
By Benoy K. Behl and Eiichi Matsumoto
Inauguration on Saturday, 5th January, at 11:00

Saturday 5
SEMINAR HALLS - I, II & III, KAMALADEVI BLOCK, FROM 11:30 TO 18:00
Vehicle of the Thunderbolt
An international seminar

Inauguration by Dr Karan Singh, M.P., and Chairman, ICCR, at 11:30

Followed by film screening 
Forgotten Buddhist University of Muara Jambi
(30 min; dvd; English)
Director: Benoy K. Behl

Sunday 6
ROSE GARDEN FROM 11:00 TO 13:00
Buddhist Prayers and Cham Dances
Presented by lamas from Kye Monastery, Spiti

Film screenings
AUDITORIUM FROM 14:00 ONWARDS
The Story of Buddhism
As told through ancient sites and art heritage
Director: Benoy K. Behl

This is the first set of films that depicts the ancient Buddhist sites of India, and it also depicts many important Buddhist sites in other Asian countries

14:00  
Sacred Buddhist Dance

14:30  
Culture of Compassion - Buddhist Heritage of India and South-East Asia

15:15
Enchanted Ajanta

15:45
Beyond the Illusory World
On the making of stupas

16:45
The Journey Within
On early rock-cut caves in western India

17:15  
The Image of the Buddha

17:45  
Masterpieces of Buddhist Art
The second phase of Buddhist caves in western India

18:15
The Second Buddha
On Guru Padmasambhava, who established Buddhism across the Trans-Himalaya

The films will be introduced by Benoy K. Behl and there will be a discussion following the screenings

Speaker: Dr Ramin Jahanbegloo, well-known Iranian-Canadian philosopher

Chair: Prof P.R. Kumaraswamy, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, JNU