By Dr M.G. Vassanji

The author will read from his novel followed by Harish Narang reading from his Hindi translation, Kaatil ka Geet

Introduction: Shri Somak Ghoshal, Penguin India

Chair: Dr Veena Sharma, former Vice-President, African Studies Association of India

Art in Public Space

Panelists: Shri Vivan Sundaram, painter, sculptor, installation artist and curator; Shri Subodh Gupta, artist and public art practitioner; Prof K.T. Ravindran, School of Planning and Architecture, and former Chairperson, Delhi Urban Art Commission; Mr. Balan Nambiar, Acting Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi

Dalits and Education
Speaker: Dr Narendra Jadhav, Member, Planning Commission

Chair: Shri Soli Sorabjee, President, IIC

By Mr Jeet Thayil and Ms Mukta Sambrani

Chair: Mr Keki N. Daruwalla

Gwalior gharana maestro accompanied by Mohammed Hafeez Khan (harmonium), Bilal Khan (tabla) and Arshad Ali (tanpura and vocal support)

Khan Sahib (born 1908) will present rare Malhar ragas sung in the rainy season, drawing on ta'leem received nearly eight decades ago, as well as some of his own compositions penned under the name "Rasan Piya"

Illustrated lecture by Shri Deb Mukharji, author of The Magic of Nepal (New Delhi, 2005) and Kailash and Manasarovar: Visions of the Infinite (Nepalaya, 2009)

Chair: Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam, Institute of Chinese Studies

Mustang in Western Nepal is a landscape sacred to both Buddhists and Hindus. Long part of a trade and pilgrimage route between Tibet and South Asia, it was for many years cloistered from visitors following the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Today there is an explosion of road construction across its river valleys, and the speaker, who visited in 2011, seeks through his camera to capture this magic land before the scene changes irrevocably
 

Author of Reversing the Tower of Babel: The Magic and Mystery of Words (Texas: Paideia Press, 2012), which describes how an interdisciplinary, intercultural, inter-lingual approach to education offers both hemispheres a chance to develop fully, so that their cooperation helps the brain realize its full potential. The author shows how this approach can meet the needs both of the gifted and those with special needs. It also fills our need for educational methods that harmonize current scientific progress with the great cultural traditions

Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project

By Rini Aich from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Kanaka Srinivasan

Speaker:  Dr Amit B. Prasad, Chairman Medicine, North Mississippi Medical Centre; and Medical Director of the Diabetes Treatment Center

Chair: Dr M.P. Khosla, IAS, retd.

The speaker will explain how diabetes is caused by metabolic syndrome, why Indians are at high risk, diagnosing, and will review the efficacy of newer agents