An exhibition of porcelain paintings by Madhu Bhalla Ahluwalia

Inauguration by Smt. Salma Ansari on Friday, 28th June 2013 at 18.30

Human Brain: Complexity Behind the Simplicity
Speaker: Dr. V. Ravindranath, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Chair: Prof. R. Rajaraman, JNU

The human brain is the interpreter of our senses, controller of movement and in fact responsible for all we embrace as civilization. It consists of about 100 billion nerve cells which are interconnected through a million billion connections measuring up to 3.2 million kilometer of wiring. Apart from the interest in understanding how the brain performs cognitive functions and finding links between behavior, brain and mind, there are serious health related issues

On the occasion of the 20th death anniversary of the renowned thumri singer, Smt Naina Delhi, her noted disciple,
Dr. Suhasini Koratkar will devote the evening evoking her guru's style of rendering various Thumris, Dadra, Hori, Chaity, Kajari and Jhoola compositions

Accompanists: Jayram Potdar (harmonium); and Akhtar Hassan (tabla)

Compere: Smt Manjari Sinha

An exhibition of Bollywood film murals from well-known films and film personalities
By Ranjit Dahiya from Mumbai

Opening on Wednesday, 31st July 2013 at 18.3-

(56 min; 2012; dvd; English subtitles)
Directed by Pushpa Rawat & Anupama Srinivasan who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film is Pushpa's personal journey as she tries to make sense of her own life, and that of her women friends. Set in a lower middle class neighbourhood in the outskirts of Delhi, it explores the lives of women who are young, educated and bright, but who feel bound and helpless when it comes to taking any major decision regarding their life, career or marriage

G.P. and the Creation of JNU
Panelists: Prof. Niraja Jayal; Prof. Prabhat Patnaik; Prof. Alok Bhattacharya, School of Life Sciences & Computation & Intergrative Sciences, JNU; Shri Prakash Karat; and Prof. S.K. Thorat, Chairman, ICSSR

Chair: Prof. Romila Thapar

On display will be two panels of photographs of G.P. in various cont

Directors: Ajay Berry & Vikas Arya

Introduction: Shri Ashwini Lohani, Working President, Indian Steam Railway Society

Film on the revival of steam locomotives at Rewari as well as the positioning of Rewari Steam Shed as one of the finest steam sheds in the world

Followed by a talk

Towards a New Medina: Jinnah, Deobandi Ulama, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial India
Speaker: Prof. Venkat Dhulipala, Assistant Professor of History, University of Northe Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2014

Chair: Dr. Dilip Simeon

The talk explains how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how  popular Muslim enthusiasm was generated for this idea, especially in the crucial United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (now Uttar Pradesh) whose Muslim elites played a critical role in Pakistan's creation