Building a Nation Fit for Our Children
Speaker: Dr Ashok Khosla, President, Development Alternatives, and International Union for Conservation of Nature

Chair: Prof. Bina Agarwal,Director, Institute of Economic Growth, and President, International Society for Ecological Economics

Works  in acrylic and  mixed media by Amit Harit from Jaipur

Inauguration by Shri Keshav Malik on Wednesday 4th July at 18:30

By Vinay Capila

Dramatized readings by the author, Sunit Tandon, Bhaskar Ghose, Ranjit Mathur and Indu Ramchandani from stories and reflections shot with pathos, spiked with self-irony, and finely detailed in tracing how the landscape of Kashmir unfolds on a visit after many years, with memories of childhood and of the author's own children

Chair: Dr Kavita A. Sharma, Director, IIC

By Mark Damisch from the USA
With Katherine and Alexandra Damisch and Sarah Koulogeorge

A practising lawyer, Mark Damisch has performed all over the world for charities and to help people "learn from each other's differences." He is accompanied on this tour by his daughters and niece

He will play from Chopin's Ballades and Etudes; Debussy's Golliwog's Cakewalk, inspired by the dance in which slaves parodied white manners through struts and kicks; and works by Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid, which reworks folk melodies to evoke the desolate prairie and lively frontier town; El Salón México, inspired by the "electric sense" of "live contact" with Mexican people; and Rodeo

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Presented to Dr Kapila Vatsyayan

Dr Kapila Vatsyayan is awarded the fourth Thalia Prize, instituted by the International Association of Theatre Critics for contributions to theatre, especially in critical thinking. The first dancer to receive the award, she is being honoured for her contributions to cultural education, administration and artistic works 

(Collaboration: International Association of Theatre Critics, India  Chapter, and World Dance Alliance - Asia Pacific, India Chapter)

Illustrated lecture by Dr K.K. Muhammad, Director, North Zone, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Prof Mushirul Hasan, Director General, National Archives of India

(94 min; dvd; 2006; English)

Director: Gaurav Jani 

Golden Conch for Best Documentary Film and National Critics Award, Mumbai International Film Festival; National Award for Best Documentary Film; Jury Award, CMS Vatavaran Nature and Wildlife Film Festival

This one-man film captures the ever-changing life of the nomadic Chang pas in Ladakh, the Hemis festival held every 12 years and the Tashi Choling monastery where they pray to the Rain God. A journey that begins as an adventure and ends with the man seeking the person within

Economics and the Environment

Speaker: Prof E. Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute

(Collaboration: Rashtriya Jagriti Sansthan)