Public Service Broadcasting Day commemorates the day in 1947 on which Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio to more than two lakhs of refugees at a camp in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi

Polish Legends story-telling by Seema Anand : 11:00 am

Pippi Longstocking  (Sweden) storytelling by Dr. Devika Rangachari: 3:00 pm

Piano Recital by renowned Hungarian pianist, Gergely Boganyi: 6:30 pm

Exhibition:  As part of the festival there will be a two-day flower exhibition in IIC Annexe                                        

Inauguration on 11th November at 4 pm. It will remain  open to the public until 5 pm on 13th November 2011

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Speaker: Prof. Indira Parthasarathy, well-known Tamil writer, Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akdemi Awardee

"˜Cilappadikaram' the ancient Tamil classic is an epic with a difference in its unusual title ("˜The Story of an Anklet'), with an unconventional hero and two wronged women as the lead women characters. The epic, treated as a play, is all about gender politics, and nationalistic aspirations. The "˜heroine' and "˜the other woman' suffer for no other reason than being women. The heroine suffers injustice from the husband and from the king of the neighbouring country. As it happens with our fables, the suffering woman is deified only after her death; "˜the other woman' embraces Buddhism, the Hindu religion having failed her. The Chera king, who constructs a temple to deify the heroine, invades the Northern region to bring the sacred stone from the Himalayas, using the tragedy of this situation as an emotional and cultural slogan for his political aspirations
 

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Shri P.S. Bawa, former DGP Delhi; and Mr. Vijay Kumar, DG, CRPF)New Delhi will discuss Enforcing Police Accountability through Civilian Oversight by Sankar Sen (New Delhi: Sage, 2010)

Chair: Shri Ved P. Marwah, former Governor of Manipur

Welcome by Dr. Manjari Tripathi,

Keynote Adress & Release of Souvenir

Chief Guest: Dr. R.C. Deka, Director, AIIMS

Experience of Caregivers

Mr. Rakesh Sood & Ms. Annie Sethi

Interactive Session - Panel Members

Smt. Nirmala Narula, Dr. Manjari Tripathi, Dr. K.S. Anand and Mrs. Renu Vohra

Vote of Thanks: Dr. S.N. Kuckreja

Speaker: Mr. Michel Danino, independent scholar of Indian civilization, who has authored papers and books in French and English on the Indus-Sarasvati civilization, India's transition from proto-history to history, the Aryan problem and India's scientific heritage

Organised in memory of Prof. G.C. Pande (1923-2011), Indologist, historian and philosopher, poet and recipient of several honorary degrees and awards

Fiction Film Appreciation Workshop - II
(For registered participants only. For registration please mail workshop@psbt.org)

To be conducted by Suresh Chabria, Film and Television Institute of India, Pune

The second day's session will draw attention to aspects of cinematic narration and mise en scene with representative example from classics and contemporary films. The classical or "˜analytic dramatic' style will be contrasted with modernist strategies of storytelling developed in contemporary cinema

From 14:00 onwards
Mere Desh ki Dharti (60 min; 2006) - Director: Sumit Khanna
A Dam Old Story (26 min; 2010) - Director: Tarini Manchanda
Earth Witness: Reflections of the Times & The Timeless (60 min; 2011) - Director: Akanksha Joshi
In God's Land (55 min; 2011) - Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar

At 18:30
Discussion: The Politics and Economics of Development in India
Speakers: Bibek Debroy; Achin Vinaik; Jayati Ghosh; Nandini Sunder; Pankaj Rishi Kumar

At 19:30
Platform No. 5 (26 min; 2010) - Director: C. Vanaja Kumari