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

The Right to World Heritage?

Speaker: Prof. Lynn Meskell, Director, Stanford Archaeological Center, Stanford University

Chair: Prof. Madhavan Palat, Trustee, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund

The year 2012 marked the 40th anniversary of UNESCO's 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. It remains the only international instrument for safeguarding the world's heritage. This presentation takes UNESCO as its centerpiece and asks how are emergent rights to the past being presented, promoted and prevented by particular actors internationally

ART MATTERS

Exploring Abstraction
Panelists: Astad Deboo; Atul Dodiya; Geeti Sen, Udayan Vajpeyi and Vidya Rao

Inaugural issue of `Aroop' would be launched by S.H. Raza, Krishen Khanna and Arpita Singh

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

Literary Encounters: Revisiting the Classics

The Mahabharata
Speaker: Dr. Bibek Debroy, economist and Research Professor, Centre for Policy Research and who is currently translating the unabridged Mahabharata for Penguin, India

Old Paths White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Speaker: Dharmacharya Shantum Seth, oriented teacher in the Zen Buddhist lineage who will speak on the classic by Thich Nhat Hanh

Chair: Dr. Kavita A. Sharma

Dissolving Boundaries - The Journey of Puppetry

An exhibition that traces the journey from traditional shadow puppets to kathputli to the present day medium dissolving forms
The exhibits include string, shadow, muppets, bunraku and processional puppets; and masks. Screening of films on puppetry

Curated and presented by UNIMA, India

Opening on Monday, 9th December 2013 at 11.00

Ways and Means of Combating Rapes and Other Forms of Sexual Violence Against Women

A discussion

Panelists: Shri Nikhil Kumar, Hon'ble Governor of Kerala; Ms Kirti Singh, Member, Law Commission; and Ms Susan Viswanathan, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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