Samanvay Arts Festival: 31st Jan - 1st February 2014

Kuchipudi Recital

By Arunima Kumar from Delhi

Kuchipudi Bhamakalapam

By Shama Krishna

Simhandini

By Guru Veena Murthy Vijay

The Wonderful Life of Orchids

An exhibition of live orchid plants and blooms from North-Eastern States of Himalaya and their rapid multiplication techniques

Coordinator: Prof. H.Y. Mohan Ram

Inauguration by Dr. S. Ayappan, Secretary, DARE & Director-General, ICAR on Friday, 31^st January 2014 at 18:30

As part of this exhibition, there will be a talk on Thursday, 6^th February 2014 at 18:30 in the Annexe Lecture Room II on

The Splendour of Orchids

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Satish Kumar, Scientist, Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Chair: Prof. H.Y. Mohan Ram

This exhibition is a curtain raiser to present the unique flora of the Himalaya. The forthcoming series of exhibitions The Himalaya: A Timeless Quest to be held through 2014-15 will focus on different aspects of the mountain range

AWERENESS AND CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP

A national level workshop on `Green Buildings and Smart Cities' to create awareness among school teachers, principals, students and youthFor confirmation and details please get in touch with contactus@ccri.in

Does Secularism Have A Future?

.Speaker : Professor Rajeev Bhargava, Senior Fellow and Director, Centre for the Study of Developing SocietiesAbstract:Does Secularism have a future? It depends on what political project gets invoked by the term. If it means strict separation of state and religion, a wall of separation between the two or the privatization of religion, then secularism seems to me to have no future, even in those western countries where these ideas and formulae were born. If, on the other hand, it means, set of practices by which states nurture and defend deep religious diversity and counter two forms of institutionalized religious dominations- inter-religious and intra-religious, then it does indeed have a future. To achieve these objectives, it is mandatory that the state not stay away from religion but rather keeps principled distance from them. This form of secularism which is context-sensitive continues to have relevance for the whole world. It better have a future because our own lives, as well as the lives of millions of people in the world, depends on it

Women of the Elements

Readings and presentation by Rashmi Anand

Chair: Dr. Manorama Bawa, Managing Trustee, All India Women's Conference

Ganga Jamuni - Silver and Gold: A Forgotten Culture

Talk by Naz Ikramullah on her recently published book about the shared culture of Hindus and Muslims. Naz Ikramullah is a practicing visual artist based in Canada

Chair: Dr. Rakshanda Jalil

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Aishwaria Nityananda from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Radha Sridhar

Concert - Piano and Cello Duet

Presented by VirÃ¡g Kiss (piano) and SÃ¡ndor DezsÅ‘ (cello) from Hungary

The artists will present works by Popper; Beethoven; Mendelssohn; SÃ¡ndor DezsÅ‘; Saint-Saens; and KodÃ¡ly

Discipline in National Development

Speaker: Shri B.K. Chaturvedi, Member Planning Commission and former Cabinet Secretary

Remembering Mandela: First Hand

A talk by Shri Saeed Naqvi, the first journalist to reach Cape Town in February 1990 when Nelson Mandela was to be released from Victor Verster Prison. They met at Archbishop Desmond Tutu's residence where Mandela stayed immediately after his release from prison

Interviews (20 min; dvd; 1990; English)

Filmed interview with Nelson Mandela and his colleagues

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