Sitar Recital

By Mohsin Ali Khan, accompanied by his son Mehtab

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on the pakhawaj

Civil Services Reforms

Speakers: Lt. Gen Surendra Nath; Shri P.C. Hota, former Chairman, Union Public Services Commission

Chair: Shri S.K. Sarkar, Secretary, Dept. of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

A festival of films made by school children on the culture of Delhi

Speaker: Dr. Usha Mujii Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration

Chair: Ms Rita Soni, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation

By Vani Madhav from Delhi, disciple of Guru Sudhakar Sahu and Guru Gajendra Panda

Speaker: Prof. Dietrich Jung, Head of Department, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark

Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl

Author and editor of ten monographs including: Religion, Politics, and Turkey's EU Accession (ed. with Catherine Raudvere,  New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008); Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Sheffield: Equinox 2011);  and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave 2014)

Ethiopian Traditional Music and Dance

Illustrated lecture by Shri Saleem Beg, former Director General, Jammu & Kashmir Tourism and presently, Member, National Monuments Authority of India

An exhibition of paintings depicting stories from the Panchatantra. Depicted in different styles - Madhubani, Patachitra of West Bengal and Odisha, Sanjhi, Sikki grass, Santhal, Phad, Contemporay, Gond and Kalamkari styles

Inauguration by Dr. Syeda S. Hameed, Member Planning Commission on Monday, 3^rd February at 17:00

Inauguration will be followed by

Story Telling

By Anwar Chitrakar (Patachitra)

As part of this exhibition, there will be story telling programmes:

4^th February at 11:00; and 17:00; and 5^th February at 11:00

Story Telling

By Anwar Chitrakar

8^th, 9^th and 10^th February at 11:00 and 17:00

Story Telling

By Gurupada (Patachitra)

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Manu P. Sobti, Associate Professor in Buildings/Landscapes/Cultures, School of Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Chair: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat

Positioned within the context of the Arab invasions on Central Asia, Sobti's work examines medieval borderlands that witnessed passage, journey and abandonment along the Oxus or Amu Darya - the region's most significant river. Through the course of these invasions, and within the river's critical role as a liminal zone between two distinct cultural realms - the Arab versus the Persian - the Amu Darya served as the selectively permeable, border/boundary condition for the large Arab armies moving across the region of Khorasan