India in the 21^st Century World

Speaker: Shri Shivshankar Menon, National Security Adviser

Welcome & Introduction: Shri Vijay Naik, Convener, IAFAC

Readings by Afsana Murad

Afsana Murad will read from the finest of Urdu poetry selected and transliterated by Sardar Khushwant Singh and Kamna Prasad with relevant excerpts from his book Delhi. The poets include Meer Taqi Mir, Mohammed Rafi Sauda, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq, Mriza Ghalib, Momin Khan Momin, Mirza Khan Dagh Dehlvi, Akbar Hussain Akbar Allahabadi, Shaad Azimbadi, Mohammed Iqbal, Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz

An exhibition of photographs from Mizoram, sourced from private collections and family albums depicting aspects of Mizo life in the 20^th century

Curated by Joy L.K. Pachau, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam

Opening on Tuesday, 11^th February 2014 at 18:00

Following the opening, there will be a discussion at 18:30 in the Lecture Room II on:

Understanding Northeast India Through Images

Panelists: Aditya Arya; Berenice Ellena; Janaki Nair; Sailothangi; and Axel Harneit-Sievers

Moderator: Dr. Rosey Sailo

(60 min; 2009; dvd; English)
Produced by Phillip Geddes, former BBC Producer and writer

Film on the 1857 mutiny and includes interviews with William Dalrymple, Rajesh Rampal and Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, now Deputy Supreme Commander NATO Forces-Europe. How grievances not addressed in time resulted in the greatest Uprising in British Colonial India

Introduction: Rajesh Rampal

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Speakers: Roddy Murray, Artistic Director, An Lanntair Arts Centre, Outer Hebrides, Scotland; and Steve Dilworth, sculptor from the Hebrides

Chair: Siddhartha Das

Roddy Murray will speak on the histories, traditions and culture of the Gaelic speaking communities of the outer Hebrides of Scotland; while Steve Dilworth will speak about his own art practice and the bearing the remote island location and landscape has on his work

Main presentation by Mr. Bernardo Carvalho

Bernardo Carvalho is a renowned Brazilian novelist, journalist and playwright. He has been the "Folha de S. Paulo" (one of Brazil's major daily newspapers) correspondent in Paris and New York and the editor of the paper's literary supplement "Folhetim". His books have been translated into more than ten languages and have been published in many countries

Dr. Tarun K. Saint, Dept. of English, Hindu College; Dr. Saif Mahmood, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; and Prof. Subodh Lal, poet, author and theatre person will discuss New Urdu Writings: From India and Pakistan (New Delhi: Tranquebar Press, 2013) by Rakhshanda Jalil

Chair: Prof. Ali Javed, Dept. of Urdu, University of Delhi

By Sohini Roy Choudhury from ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Kolkata and disciple of Pt. A.T. Kanan

Personalising Libraries and Their Access

Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Sancheti, President (Vice-Chancellor), Manipal University, Jaiipur

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, Director, Delnet

Is Renewable Energy a Antithesis of the Conventional Sources of Energy?

Speaker: Prof. Viresh Dutta, Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi

Chair: Dr. Bharat Bhargava, Director-General, ONGC Energy Centre

Energy is vital for all human activities and is available in different forms to meet the diverse requirements. The depletion of conventional sources of energy like fossil fuel is giving a sense of urgency to the development of alternate sources of energy. The sources are expected to be renewable to have a long term availability and sustainable so that the associated effects on the environment is minimal. The lecture will focus on different aspects of energy sources and utilization in order to establish what can be the directions needed in the creation of future energy mix