Presented by Haydn Baryton Trio from Budapest - Balázs Kakuk (barytongamba); József Spengler (violin); and András Kaszanyitzky (violoncello)

The Ensemble will play baryton trio pieces by Haydn, Tomasini, Neumann, Burgksteiner; and Lidl

Presentation of awards to Outstanding Woman Mediaperson

Followed by a panel discussion on
Freedom of Expression: Can We Get it Right?
Panelists: Shri Fali S. Nariman; Shri Shashi Tharoor; and Prof. Nivedita Menon

Moderator: Smt Sevanti Ninan

(128 min; 2006; DVCam; English subtitles)
A film by Vladimir Léon who will introduce the screening

Screening will be followed by a discussion

From Mexico to Russia, from Germany to India, director Vladimir Léon seeks out a revolutionary adventurer from Bengal - M.N. Roy. Founder of a Communist Party in Zapata's Mexico, leader of the Communist International (Comintern) in Soviet Russia alongside Lenin, an anti-Stalin militant and anti-Nazi in pre-war Germany, a politician and atheist philosopher in independent India, Roy personified the struggles of a century on three different continents. However, official history in these countries has preferred to erase his mark. Through direct and indirect accounts, Léon patiently reconstructs the chaotic existence of a free spirit; the film is as much an enquiry as it is a meditation on the obscure course of history

Speaker: Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority

Chair: Shri Pravin Srivastava, Member-Secretary, NMA

The group of monuments at Pattadakal on the banks of the Malaprabha river in north Karnataka, were inscribed as a World heritage Site in 1987 on the grounds of it being "˜the high point of an eclectic art which, in the 7th and 8th centuries under the Chalukya dynasty, achieved a harmonious blend of architectural forms from northern and southern India'. 

UNESCO's World Heritage Convention, to which India is a signatory, makes a distinction between cultural heritage and natural heritage. This presentation interrogates the viability of this distinction in the context of India and also examines the relationship between the monument and its cultural landscape. It shifts the focus from patronage of religious architecture by political dynasties such as that of the Chalukyas to understanding the monuments in their social context, which raises two significant issues: the first relates to the choice of the site. Why was Pattadakal chosen for the setting up of temples? What do we know of the archaeology of the site? The second theme is that of identity and the extent to which religious architecture defined the landscape ascribing it with sanctity and cultural identity. The larger objective is to initiate discussion on the extent to which "˜categories' defined in the early twentieth century continue to be in use. Perhaps it is time to analyze the theoretical frameworks that corroborate these categories.

A celebration of girlhood with tales of girl empowerment old and new; a quiz on Indian women achievers; poster making; and a skit on girl power by children

Coordinated by Deepa Agarwal

Speakers: M.K. Raina, Kishore Singh, Anita Singh and Sanjeev Bhargava

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Architecture Without Frontiers? The Problem of the Past in a Global Practice of Architecture
Illustrated lecture by Shiben Banerji, PhD Candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a Research Fellow in the MIT Urbanization Laboratory. He has taught architecture, urban design and planning at MIT and Columbia University and was formerly Associate Director, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai

Chair: Shri Snehanshu Mukherjee

It is generally assumed that modern architecture built outside Europe and North America must either be an instance of homogenization or an instance of contextualization. Motivating this general assumption is a conception of modernity as a universal future - applicable to everyone. The talk reveals a countervailing thesis of the internationality of modern architecture through an analysis of the American architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin, who practiced in the United States, Australia and India between 1895 and 1949