Play scripted and directed by R'jesh Bali
Presented by Drashta India
With Deepak Goswami/Ankit Mahindra; Aanchal Shrivastav; Mukesh Pandey/Abhishek Mishra; Abhishek Mishra/Pankaj Chauhan/Anuraag Jain; Mohit Baisla/Vinay Sharma; Sandeep Nandan; Praveen Singh/Sandeep Nandan; Prity Kanojiya; Aanchal Shrivastav; and others

Moving away from the popular images of Gandhi, the play is located in the immediate aftermath of post-partition India and the riots that followed. The play focuses on Gandhi's efforts to heal the wounded hearts of the victims and his opposition to partition

Discussion on the book Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood by Christine Deftereos (New Delhi: Sage, 2013)
Discussants: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Former Chairman, Lalit Kala Academy; Dr. Aditya Nigam, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Prof. V. Sujatha, Centre for the Study of Social System, JNU and Dr. Alok Sarin, Psychiatry, Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research

Chair: Prof. T.N. Madan, Institute of Economic Growth

Interrogating Women's Leadershp and Empowerment

Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2012-Spring 2013)

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Arpana Caur, well-known artist; Shiv Visvanathan, O.P. Jindal Global University; and Rashmi Singh, Nawtional Mission for Empowerment of Women

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanghamitra Basu, Associate Professor, Architecture & regional Planning Department, IIT Kharagpur, and Member, National Monument Authority of India

Bhubaneswar with its broad avenues dissecting the city into a grid iron pattern, was created by Otto Koenisberger with dreams and aspirations of a modern State Capital in post independent India. But Bhubaneswar is also the story of ancient India dating back as far as 3rd century B.C. The lecture offers an insight to this phenomenon of a living heritage town and its dichotomous existence

Speaker: Dr. Ashok Khosla, Chairman, Development Alternatives and former President, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Introduction: Shri Vijay Bhushan, Executive Director, Narain Dharamarth Aushdhalaya Trust and Member, Himachal Pradesh State Wildlife Board and former Secretary, Govt. of India

Special Guests: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan and Shri B.K. Chaturvedi, Member Planning Commission

The Narain Dutt Award for the Conservation of Nature will be conferred to Development Alternatives

Illustrated lecture by Sushant Sharma, Marketing Manager, Nike India

Talk on a climb to Kilimanjaro, the highest stand alone peak in the world, presenting photographs of rare and endemic animals of Serengetti including the black casqued hornbill, the ground hornbill, colobus monkeys etc.

Poets and speakers: Shri Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee; Shri Prabal Kumar Basu; Shri Shantanu Gangopadhyay; Shri Himadri Datta; Dr. Rumki Basu; and Ms Mandira Ghosh

Chair: Ms Sheila Sengupta

By Sanchita Banerjee from Delhi, disciple of the late Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, Sujata Mohapatra and Ranjana Gauhar

Author of the novel: Aruna Chakravarti
Dramatised readings by Minoti Chatterjee and Averee Chaurey
Music Jayati Ghosh

Jorasanko - a novel based on the lives of the Tagore women during the period 1859 to 1902 - a unique phase in the history of Bengal. The Tagore mansion of Jorasanko was at the hub of the Bengal Renaissance with the family at the forefront of the movement and its women playing a pivotal role