Designed and directed by Sukhmani Kohli
Presented by Purple Mangoes, Chandigarh

Adapted from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the play explores the juxtaposition of clowning and Romeo and Juliet's love story

Conducted by Aseem Asha Usman, Founder Director, Aseem Asha Foundation

From 11 am to 13.00

Paper Toy Making

From 15.00 to 17.00

Painting

For children between 8 to 12 years.  Kindly please register participation by iicartgallery@gmail.com

Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Bob Dylan's Music Plus Words Plus"¦

Illustrated lecture by Indrajit Hazra, novelist and journalist who has written on music since 1992 in The Telegraph and started his column Rock`n'Roll Circus in The Asian Age which he continued writing in The Hindustan Times until 2012. He currently writes the column Under the Influence in Rolling Stones India. He was once a member of The Great Elastic Rubber Band that never made it beyond the treacherous early 90s

Chair: Shri Aditya Sinha, former Editor-in-Chief, The New Indian Express and DNA, Mumbai

Play scripted and directed by R'jesh Bali
Presented by Drashta India
With Deepak Goswami/Ankit Mahindra; Aanchal Shrivastav; Mukesh Pandey/Abhishek Mishra; Abhishek Mishra/Pankaj Chauhan/Anuraag Jain; Mohit Baisla/Vinay Sharma; Sandeep Nandan; Praveen Singh/Sandeep Nandan; Prity Kanojiya; Aanchal Shrivastav; and others

Moving away from the popular images of Gandhi, the play is located in the immediate aftermath of post-partition India and the riots that followed. The play focuses on Gandhi's efforts to heal the wounded hearts of the victims and his opposition to partition

Discussion on the book Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood by Christine Deftereos (New Delhi: Sage, 2013)
Discussants: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Former Chairman, Lalit Kala Academy; Dr. Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Prof. V. Sujatha, Centre for the Study of Social System, JNU and Dr. Alok Sarin, Psychiatry, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research

Chair: Prof. T.N. Madan, Institute of Economic Growth

Interrogating Women's Leadershp and Empowerment

Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2012-Spring 2013)

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Arpana Caur, well-known artist; Shiv Visvanathan, O.P. Jindal Global University; and Rashmi Singh, Nawtional Mission for Empowerment of Women

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanghamitra Basu, Associate Professor, Architecture & regional Planning Department, IIT Kharagpur, and Member, National Monument Authority of India

Bhubaneswar with its broad avenues dissecting the city into a grid iron pattern, was created by Otto Koenisberger with dreams and aspirations of a modern State Capital in post independent India. But Bhubaneswar is also the story of ancient India dating back as far as 3rd century B.C. The lecture offers an insight to this phenomenon of a living heritage town and its dichotomous existence

Speaker: Dr. Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives and former President, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Introduction: Shri Vijay Bhushan, Executive Director, Narain Dharamarth Aushdhalaya Trust and Member, Himachal Pradesh State Wildlife Board and former Secretary, Govt. of India

Special Guests: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan and Shri B.K. Chaturvedi, Member Planning Commission

The Narain Dutt Award for the Conservation of Nature will be conferred to Development Alternatives