By Mita Haldar from Kolkata, disciple of Pt Ajoy Chakraborty

Presented by Viola da Cunha (mezzo soprano) with Justin McCarthy (piano)

The artists will present an evening of lieder, English and Spanish songs

Promoting authors in translation worldwide

Speaker: Ms Anne-Solange Noble, Director of Foreign Rights, Gallimard Publishers

 in conversation with Patricia Stansfield (International Rights Director,

Flammarion Publishers)

Below Count: Medical Services for the Homeless in Delhi

Speakers: Smt Suryakanthi Tripathi, Trustee, India Foundation & Director, Free Medical Clinic, Lodhi Colony;

Dr. Anoop Saraya, Professor of Gastroenterology, AIIMS; Dr. Amod Kumar, Head, Department of Community Medicine, St. Stephen's Hospital, Delhi; and Shri Miloon Kothari, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker

A Bharatanatyam Recital

By Sunita Menon with a group  from Delhi  Disciples of Justin McCarthy

The reciasl based on series of solos, duos and trios will feature a set of intensely spiritual Dikshitar kritis interspersed with pieces of pure dance

62 min; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Directed by Anwar Jamal who will introduce the film

Film produced by PSBT

Received Special Mention at the 11^th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary 2010 for "An important film in which novel ways of breaking boundaries between documentary and fiction allow the filmmaker to raise reality to the level of poetry and drama"

The Northern Reach of Buddhism in Asia

Buddhist Communities in Asiatic Russia Past and Present

An exhibition of photographs and documents concerning the

fate of  Buddhism in  Russian Mongolia under the Russian

Empire, the Soviet state and in the Russian Federation

Introduction: Dr. Hari Vasudevan, Director, MAKAIAS, Kolkata

Rev. Doboom Tulku, Director, Tibet House, Representative of the 

Institute of Mongolian Buddhist and Tibetan Studies 

Book Release & Performance

Release of the IIC Book The Golden Boat: 50 Indian River Poems

(New Delhi, Yoda Press 2011)

Edited by Prof. K. Satchidanandan

Followed by

Synthesis of Strings - Sitar and Cello

Presented by Shubhendra Rao on sitar and Saskia Rao de Haas on cello

Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor (95 min; 1997; dvd; English)

Director: Kevin Connor

Based on the script by Jan Hartman and Dominique Lapierre

The film will be introduced by Rev. Dr. John Edappilly

The true story of Mother Teresa, beginning in Calcutta, India, where she faces adversity from every direction and where she lays the foundation for her crusade to help the poorest of God's poor

Speaker: Prof. Antoinette Burton, distinguished historian, author and presently Professor of History, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, USA

Chairperson: Dr. Malavika Karlekar