Poetry Readings

18 January 2011, 05:30 am
Poetry Readings
Programme Type
Cultural

from the new book, Jamali-Kamali: A Tale of Passion in Mughal India

By Karen Chase, award-wining author of two collections of poetry and the non-fiction book, Land of Stone

 

Moderator: Mr. Aman Nath

The Human Factor in Food

17 January 2011, 05:30 am
The Human Factor in Food
Programme Type
Talks

Speaker: Mrs Lynne Chatterton author of the recently published book From the Ground Up - Home Cooking without Fear who has been involved in dryland farming and practical food production all her life

 

Chair: Ms Maya Goburdhun, Navdanya

 

The lecture is based on a lifetime experience of growing food, working with farmers in developing countries, and urging people not to allow industrialised supermarket food to take over from fresh food cooked at home

Films on Wildlife

15 January 2011, 05:30 am
Films on Wildlife

Women in Paradise(53 min; dvd; English)

Film courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment

 

Film on how small countries are becoming victims to the hazardous growth of developed nations. With global warming, sea levels are rising at an alarming rate and appeals to the international community, particularly developed nations does not elicit any response

 

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929

15 January 2011, 05:30 am
Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929
Programme Type
Cultural

from and

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929

- 4April 1968

 

Sharing of Thoughts and Ideas

Speakers: Suhas Borker on the Gandhi-King-Mandela Paradigm; Indu Prakash Singh on Homeless Citizens; Ramesh Sharma on Revisiting Naokhali; Rajendra Ravi on Environment and Transport; and Satyanarayana Sahu on Violence, Poverty and Illiteracy

 

Students from Schools of Delhi NCR will participate

 

From in the Foyer and QuadrangleGarden

Exhibition on King's Life and Mission

 

Songs and Candle Light Vigil

 

Programme organized as part of Taking Children to Gandhi series in collaboration with Gandhi Peace Foundation; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies

The Fort William Collection

13 January 2011, 05:30 am
The Fort William Collection

The FortWilliam Collection

An exhibition of one of the most precious and rare collection of books in English, Persian and Arabic

 

Inauguration by Ms Lata Reddy, Secretary East, Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday, 12 January  at 18:30

Kathak Recital

11 January 2011, 05:30 am
Kathak Recital
Programme Type
Cultural

Kathak Recital

By Isabelle Anna from France, disciple of Pt. Birju Maharaj

 

Simon Digby Memorial Lecture

10 January 2011, 05:30 am
Simon Digby Memorial Lecture
Programme Type
Talks

CANCELLED


A Runaway Mughal Prince

Lecture prepared by the late Simon Digby will be read by Dr. Shahid Amin, Department of History, University of Delhi

 

The Coolie Odyssey

08 January 2011, 05:30 am
The Coolie Odyssey
Programme Type
Cultural

The Coolie Odyssey

A play from South Africa based on the collection of poems by David Dabydeen

Directed by Rajesh Gopie

 

The play is a delicate and insightful production looking at the lives of the indentured workers from India who arrived in

Natal to work on the sugar plantations

Marathon - 2500 Years

04 January 2011, 05:30 am
Marathon - 2500 Years

 

To mark 2500 years since the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. - an exhibition of photographic panels using 18th century texts, prints and engravings on the historic battle which played such an important role in shaping western civilization