An exhibition of shawls from the collection of Aditi Desai, social anthropologist who has spent many years studying, collecting and documenting Kashmir shawls in India and Europe

Inauguration by Dr Karan Singh, M.P., on Thursday, 29th November, at 18:30

Talk on 1st December 2012 at 16:00 in the Gallery
The Kashmir Shawl: A Collector's Journey
Illustrated lecture by Aditi Desai who will draw on her fieldwork and on conversations with weavers, traders, darners and shawl collectors. She will speak of raising awareness of this craft, describe the restoration of shawls, tell stories of shawl collecting, and remove prevalent misconceptions
 
Aditi Desai will also be in the gallery every day at 12:30 to conduct a walkthrough

By Taranum Riaz

Poetry reading in Urdu by  Taranum Riyaz
 
Introduction by Mr Syed Mohammad Ashraf
 
Chair: Prof Akhtarul Wassey, Vice Chairman, Delhi Urdu Academy, and Director, Zakir Hussain Instt. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia

Illustrated lecture by Dr Raman Kapur, Head, Dept. of Acupuncture, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

The talk will show how acupuncture can provide permanent relief from pain in the neck-and-shoulder region and in the lower back, and from sciatica, migraine, asthma, sinusitis and irritable bowel syndrome

Economic Reforms and Growth
Speaker: Dr Bimal Jalan, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

Speaker: Dr Suresh Sethuraman, Tamil Nadu State Convenor of INTACH, Chennai

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

A multimedia presentation using excerpts from the book by Sathya Saran - the production presents rare insights into the mind and character of the filmmaker, Guru Dutt and  chronicles the most productive period of the life of one of India's most iconic filmmakers, through theatre, film and interactions of the protagonist Abrar Alvi (played by Saattvi) with the author Sathya Saran

Directed by Meenu

Inauguration by Shri Tejendra Khanna, Lt. Governor of Delhi

At 18:45
Dwarka and Bet Dwarka Undersea Excavations
Illustrated lecture by Dr Sila Tripathi, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
(52 min; 1992; dvd; English)
Director: Manjira Datta

The Green Revolution has been credited with ensuring that developing nations no longer suffer from hunger, but 25 years on this documentary asks who the principal beneficiary has been? The poor peasant? The big farmer? The multinational corporation? It shows how in India the Revolution helped to create a new serf class, and that the crop yields of the early years fell away in the wake of pesticide poisoning and short-lived miracle wheat strains