Civil Lines, Inner Wheel Clubs and Changing Delhi

Speakers: Ms Minna Kapur; and Ms Purnima Narayan

Discussion around the new book by Harsha V. Dehejia

Chief Guest: Dr. Karan Singh, MP

The Green House Effects - AD 2048 (46 min; dvd; English)

The Ozone Alarm - AD 2048 (49 min; dvd; English)

Films courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment

Set in the fictional future of the year 2048, this two-part Norwegian film focuses on the damage human activity and man - made chemicals can inflict on the environment. The films look at what the world would be like if the depletion of the ozone layer and global warming continue unchecked. TV news bulletins in 2048 report an appalling litany of disaster stories: epidemics of "˜supertyphus' spread by rats, plagues of grasshoppers devouring food crops and famine relief camps in Europe while in the Middle East, hundreds are killed fighting over the last remaining fresh water supplies. The films end on a positive note that world leaders still have time to ward off the catastrophe

Notes from the Past

Reconstructing compositions from archival textual sources

Illustrated lecture and demonstration by Smt Shubha Mudgal, acclaimed vocalist

Details to be announced later

By Alif Laila from Bangladesh, disciple of Ustad Mir Qasem Khan, Partha Chatterjee and Krishna Bhatt

An exhibition of paintings in watercolour, gouche, ink, acrylic and colour pencils

By Shantala Palat

Opening on Wednesday, 15^th January 2014 at 18:30

Speakers: Dr. Vishwa Adluri, Associate Adjunct Professor, Hunter College, The City University of New York; Dr. Joydeep Bagchee, PhD in Philosophy, New School of Social Studies, New York; and co-authors of the forthcoming book The Nay Science: A History of German Indology

The speakers will address the question of the Mahabharata's historicity. Through a critical examination of the formation of early Mahabharata scholarship, they will discuss how theories of the epic's origins in heroic Aryan circles were used as a vehicle of scientific, evangelical, and racial propaganda by Orientalist academics

Talk by Ms Gloria Steinem, renowned feminist, writer and activist who will speak on her new book

85^th Birthday Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR

From 11:15 in the Auditorium

Interactive Session: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere:

(Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963)

Moderators: Shri Suhas Borker, Working Group on Alternative Strategies; and Shri Ramesh Sharma, Gandhi Peace Foundation

Students from schools of Delhi NCR will participate

This programme is part of the Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi's non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development