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 

The Comic as Continuity

Speaker: Shri E.P. Unny, cartoonist

Chair: Shri Ravikant

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?

 

From Sound to Images…and Back

Speaker: Professor B.N. Goswamy, eminent art historian

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Madhup Mudgal, disciple of Pt. Kumar Gandharva

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Kalapini Komkali, daughter of Pt. Kumar Gandharva

 

Followed by

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Bhuvanesh Komkali, grandson of Pt. Kumar Gandharva

 

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

 

Sufi Kathak 

by Manjari Chatuvedi 

 

With Qawwal Janaab Shabi Ahmed from Khairabad, Awadh

Ms Shephali Frost, vocalist from Delhi

Shri Rohit Anand, flautist from Delhi and 

Shri Mohit Lal, percussionist from Delhi

 

Under the ‘22 Khwaja Project’  series conceptualized and  directed by Manjari Chaturvedi

 

Living Sands: The Art and Science Microfossils

Speaker: Professor P.K. Saraswati, Professor of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

 

Chair:Prof. S.K. Tandon, D.N.Wadia Chair Professor, IIT Kanpur

 

Life is nearly 4 billion years old on this planet but skeletal formation is a much younger phenomenon during the Cambrian period, about 550 million years ago. The skeletal remains of the organisms evolved since the Cambrian times are preserved as fossils in the rock records.To a scientist, the microfossils are the source of interpretation of geological processes in deep time. Three groups of protists, Foraminifera, Coccolithophores and Radiolarian, will be discussed in the talk for their shell-architecture, as exemplars of co-existence in nature and as indicators of palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate 

 

Between the People and the Polis: Southasia’s Mega Cities and the Urban Future

Speaker: Mr. Arif Hasan, urban philosopher from Karachi who is well-known internationally as a planner, architect, writer, researcher and activist

Chair: Mr. Kanak Mani Dixit