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

Sitar Recital

By Mohsin Ali Khan, accompanied by his son Mehtab

Followed by

Dhrupad Recital

By Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar

Accompanied by Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on the pakhawaj

Civil Services Reforms

Speakers: Lt. Gen Surendra Nath; Shri P.C. Hota, former Chairman, Union Public Services Commission

Chair: Shri S.K. Sarkar, Secretary, Dept. of Personnel and Training, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions

A festival of films made by school children on the culture of Delhi

Speaker: Dr. Usha Mujii Munshi, Librarian, Indian Institute of Public Administration

Chair: Ms Rita Soni, CEO, NASSCOM Foundation

By Vani Madhav from Delhi, disciple of Guru Sudhakar Sahu and Guru Gajendra Panda

Speaker: Prof. Dietrich Jung, Head of Department, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark

Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl

Author and editor of ten monographs including: Religion, Politics, and Turkey's EU Accession (ed. with Catherine Raudvere,  New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008); Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Sheffield: Equinox 2011);  and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave 2014)