Contemporary Japanese Design

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Anu Jindal

Japanese design - distinctive and idiosyncratic, has made a huge impact in contemporary products and lifestyle, from architecture to animation. The talk will also cover the Good Design Conference and Exhibition held in New Delhi in 2011 and the impact of Japanese designed products on the Indian market

Rock Cut Caves of Pithalkhora: Conservation and Other Issues

Illustrated lecture by Dr. V. N. Prabhakar, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair:

Prof. R.C. Agarwal

Pithalkhora caves located in the Satamala range of the Western Ghats of Maharashtra is an early Buddhist site consisting of 14 rock-cut cave monuments which date back to the 3rd century BCE, making them one of the earliest examples of rock-cut architecture in India. Out of the 14, four are chaityas (one housing votive stupas, one apsidal and single-cell) and the rest are viharas. All the caves belong to the Hinayana period, but the paintings are of the Mahayana period

Concert

Presented by Ana Gog, one of Ireland's most unique groups led by multi-instrumental and main songwriter, Michael GallenThe Quintessence of IrishnessPresented by Paddy O'Keefe, well-known Irish actor who will present a programme of rehearsed readings of Irish poetry and prose following a roughly chronological order to explore essential Irish themes such as longing, displacement, emigration, division, humour and the continuity of resistance. Readings from works by Beckett, Boland, Durkin, French, Heaney, Joyce, O'Donohue, O'Driscoll, Paulin, Yeats and others

Kamaladevi Puraskar

Presentation of awards to young crafts persons

Chief Guest: Dr. Kapila VatsyayanP>There will be a display of craft made by the awardees

An Unequal Nation: Citizenship and Democracy in India

Speaker: Shri Harsh Mander, social worker and writer

From Mozart to Strauss - 200 Years of German Art Song

Concert presented by artists of the Neemrana Vocal Ensemble
Accompanied on the piano by Richard Stokes, Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music, London; and Situ Singh Buehler, concert Artiste and teacher

Central Asia Expedition 2013

Illustrated lecture by Sudha Mahalingam, veteran traveler and experienced rallyist who will present perspectives from this journey

Chair:

Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam

Land-locked Central Asia, rugged, remote and relatively inaccessible, has straddled the silk route between Asia and Europe for several centuries. The region, home to some of the loftiest mountain ranges on our planet - Hindukush, Himalaya, Altai, Tien Shan, Alau, Pamir - has allured traders and adventure-seekers alike. In the last millennium, geography and history conspired to give this region a shared destiny from which they have disentangled themselves after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. What does the roof of the world look like today, twenty years after the countries of Central Asia got the opportunity to decide their own destiny?

The Relevance of Sri Sarada Devi in the Lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda

Speaker: Pravarajika Vivekaprana, senior sanyasini of the Sri Sarada Math; and Head of the Retreat Centre at Pangot, Distt. Nainital

Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Kavitha Ramu from Chennai, disciple of Guru Smt K.J. Sarasa

Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy

A talk on the new book by Prof. Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, Director, Brown-India Initiative, Watson Institute of International Studies and Department of Political Science, Brown University

Chief Guest: Shri Shekhar Gupta

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