`Mother India'

Speaker: Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor, West Bengal

Icon, metaphor and palladium, "˜Mother India' has personified a conjured past as well as a future epiphenomenon. Mother India was the title of Katherine Mayo's controversial 1927 book which Gandhi described as "˜the report of a drain inspector'. It was also the name of the celebrated 1957 film produced and directed by Mehboob Khan in which Nargis reached an unexpected pinnacle of achievement.

The lecture will explore the voltages of imagination and the outages of dismay that lie beneath that never-to-be-reviled name, which carries a halo and also, perhaps, like Nargis as Radha, a crushing weight

(Organised by the Rosalind Wilson Memorial Trust)"˜

A two-day seminar on rare aspects in the Kathak form of dance
Conducted by Guru Rani Khanam, Kathak exponent and choreographer

Presentations by Dr. Maya Rao; Smt Leela Venkataraman; Smt Sunainaya Hazari Lal; Shri Ravindra Mishra;
Smt Arshiya Sethi; Shri Subhash Chandra; Smt Manjushree Chatterji; and Ms Saswati Sen

Chishti Harmony Awards

Release of a book Living in Harmony: Towards Resolution of Ayodhya Issue

Qawwallis
Presented by Qawwals from the Chishti order of Ajmer Sharif

Women and Mathematics: A Perspective
Speaker: Prof. Geetha Venkataraman, School of Liberal Studies/Undergraduate Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

Chair: Prof. Irfan Habib, Professor, Maulana Azad Chair, National University of Educational Planning and Administration

Does Mathematics attract women practitioners? What can be said about the number and proportion of women in mathematics? What is the impact of societal pressures on women doing mathematics? This and many other issues will be examined with statistical data, anecdotes, perceptions and vignettes to provide some insights

An exhibition of rare photographs taken between the years 1914 to 2010 that looks at the history, culture and people of Tibet. The exhibition includes photographs taken in Amdo, Kham and U-Tsang provinces of Tibet between 1914 and 1958 by Alexandra David Neel, the well-known French traveler and explorer; and Dudul N. Tsarong, former Tibetan government official; photographs of Tibet taken in 1979 by Lobsang Taklha, elder brother of His Holiness the Dalai Lama during the visit of the First Delegation into Tibet; and contemporary photographs from 2000 to 2010 collected from all over the world presenting Tibet as it is now

Assembled by Namgyal Taklha and Jane Moore

Inauguration by Shri Raghu Rai on Thursday, 7th  July at 18:30

The Buddha (120 min; dvd; English)
Director: David Grubin

Narrated by Richard Gere

The Buddha draws upon paintings and sculptures across two millennia as well as scenes in India today that echo the Buddha's world of long ago. The testimony of contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet, W.S Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, provide insight into the ancient narrative