Speaker: Dr Sajeela Maini, President, Tobacco Control Foundation of India

Chair: Dr Raman Kapur, Head, Dept. of Acupuncture, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital

Dr Sajeela Maini, a clinical psychologist with a doctorate in Health Psychology, offers structured tobacco cessation interventions at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and National Heart Institute, New Delhi. She also conducts workshops where employees of an organization are treated in a group setting. A consultant on lifestyle modification and stress management, she seeks to sensitize people to wellness in its broadest sense, and believes right diet, exercise and sleep can effect a shift in the continuum from negativity to positivity

From the Doordarshan Archives

Dharwar Jyoti: Gangubai Hangal
(117 min; dvd; 2007; English)
Introduction: Jyotirmaya Sharma

Speaker: Prof Anil Sethi, Dept. of History and Education, Azim Premji University

Chair: Dr Rita Brara Mukhopadhyay, Dept. of Sociology, University of Delhi

Holi took on many meanings in 19th-century Punjab. For ordinary people, social licence and frenzy were important elements, marking a symbolic reversal of familial, class and caste hierarchies. There were limits to this overturning of order, however, and all reversals served to affirm the control of dominant groups. Maharaja Ranjit Singh used Holi to display monarchical pomp and power. From the late 19th century, the "purifiers""”Sanatani, Arya and Sikh"”made concerted attempts to rid it of revelry and institute a pavitra celebration

From the Doordarshan Archives

Sangeeta Kokila: M.L. Vasanthakumari: Vols. I & II
(101 min; dvd; 2003; English)
Introduction: Sudha Raghunathan

Otello
(138 min; dvd; 1982; English subtitles)
Conductor: Zoltan Pesko
With Vladimir Atlantov (Otello); Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona); Piero Cappuccilli (Iago)
Orchestra and chorus of the Arena di Verona

Giuseppe Verdi's last tragic opera, based on a masterly adaptation of Shakespeare by the librettist Boito, is here shot in the spectacular Arena di Verona

Contemporary Protest Music in India
Speaker: Dr Rahul Ram, lead singer, songwriter and bass guitarist with the Indian Ocean band

Chair: Kajal Ghosh, singer

The presentation will focus on different forms and aspects of protest music in north India. The programme will include recorded music and live rendition

Shri Inder Malhotra, veteran journalist; Prof Ashis Nandy, Senior Fellow, CSDS; and Shri Ajoy Bose, journalist, anchor and author, discuss Ink in my Veins: A Life in Journalism by S. Nihal Singh (New Delhi: Hay House India, 2011)

Chair: Shri Krishna Prasad, Editor-in-Chief, Outlook