Speaker: Shri Tarun Das, Founder-Trustee, the Aspen Institute, and former Chief Mentor, Confederation of Indian Industries

Chair: Shri Satinder K. Lambah, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

Speaker: Prof M. Krzysztof Byrski, distinguished scholar and Indologist and former Ambassador of Poland to India

Europe and South Asia are "twins-unlike""”similar on many counts but dissimilar as far as their "personalities" go. The most fascinating point of confrontation is the European "nation" as compared to India's "caste", as well as umma and qaum. The speaker argues that taking this comparison to its conclusion would suggest how the EU might solve its problems of supra-national integration, and South Asia resolve the pain of Partition

Odissi Recital
By Sonal Mansingh

Sonal Mansingh will present items from her vast and varied repertory in Odissi, which she has infused with literary works in Oriya and Sanskrit and with choreography based on old Odisha traditions

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