The Glory of Pratihara Temples
Illustrated lecture by Shri R.D. Trivedi, former Director, Archaeological Survey of India
Chair: Shri B.M. Pande
DELHI - CAPTURING WOMEN'S LIVES AND CHANGE IN A CITY IN TRANSITION
Civil Lines, Inner Wheel Clubs and Changing Delhi
Speakers: Ms Minna Kapur; and Ms Purnima Narayan
Parul: A Love Story
Discussion around the new book by Harsha V. Dehejia
Chief Guest: Dr. Karan Singh, MP
FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT
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
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Notes from the Past
Reconstructing compositions from archival textual sources
Illustrated lecture and demonstration by Smt Shubha Mudgal, acclaimed vocalist
Long Night of Literature
Details to be announced later
Hindustani Music - Sitar Recital
By Alif Laila from Bangladesh, disciple of Ustad Mir Qasem Khan, Partha Chatterjee and Krishna Bhatt
When Dreams Awaken
An exhibition of paintings in watercolour, gouche, ink, acrylic and colour pencils
By Shantala Palat
Opening on Wednesday, 15th January 2014 at 18:30
The Mahabharata: History, Science, or Myth?
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
As if Women Matter - The Essential Gloria Steinem Reader
Talk by Ms Gloria Steinem, renowned feminist, writer and activist who will speak on her new book