A festival presenting the different schools of Mohiniyattam, dedicated to Smt Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya

Chief Guest: Dr Suresh K. Goel, Director General, ICCR

Talk on Guru Kalyanikutty Amma

Speaker: Smt Sreedevi Rajan

Recital
By Adira Sankar, disciple of Guru Kalyanikutty Amma

Talk on Kerala Kalamandalam

Speaker: Shri V. Kaladharan

Mohiniyattam Recital

By Pallavi Krishnan from Kalamandalam

A festival presenting the different schools of Mohiniyattam, dedicated to Smt Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya

 Recital
By Olga Shylarova, disciple of Bharati Shivaji
Followed by Manjula Murthy, disciple of Guru Kalyanikutty Amma and  Guru Bharati Shivaji

By Mandakini Trivedi, disciple of Dr Kanak Rele

A festival presenting the different schools of Mohiniyattam, dedicated to Smt Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
 

Inauguration by Chief Guest, Dr Karan Singh, President, ICCR
Panchavadhyam
By Kalamandalam Sreekumar and group
 

Introduction to Mohiniyattam
Speaker: Shri M.G.S. Narayanan, Director General, Centre for Heritage Studies, Govt. of Kerala

Recital
By Vijayalakshmi , disciple of Bharati Shivaji

Screening of Lasya Lahari
Director: G.S. Chani

Readings from his new novel by Dr Om Gupta, media commentator and academic

The novel traces the parallel stories of the growth of its protagonist and of India's maturing from a country into a nation, starting in 1947, their shared year of birth. The history of post-Independence media provides a backdrop

Chair: Dr G.P. Vimal, former Director, Central Hindi Directorate

(55 min; dvd; 2012; English)
Produced by CNN

Investigative correspondent Drew Griffin visited stem cell clinics across the United States, and travelled to India to meet Dr Geeta Shroff and her patients, to assess whether the treatment has indeed improved their quality of life

Mr Phillip Turner, New Delhi bureau chief, CNN International, will introduce the film, which will be followed by a discussion

Illustrated lecture by Shri D.N. Dimri, Superintending Archaeologist, Delhi Circle, ASI

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande, former Director, ASI

Global Economic Developments and India
Speaker: Dr Y.V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of Hyderabad

Chair: Shri T.N. Ninan, Chairperson and Chief Editor, Business Standard

Dr Mira Shiva, Voluntary Health Association of India, "Perspective of Patients and the Public"
Prof Y.K. Gupta, AIIMS; and Dr V.M. Kohli, Metro Heart Institute, "Doctors' Perspective: Private and Public Sector"
Dr P.K. Sethi, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, "Systems Failures leading to the Breakdown of Relationships"

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

Presented by Uma Sharma and group, in celebration of Janmashtami

Nritya-abhinaya based on the poetry of Jayadeva, Surdas, Meera, Swami Haridas, Raskhan and Vidyapati

Speaker: Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House

Chair: Shri Rajiv Mehrotra, Trustee, FUR