Race of the Politics of Position: Above and Below in Frank Moraes' The Importance of Being Black
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Prof. Antoinette Burton, distinguished historian, author and presently Professor of History, Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois, USA
Speaker: Mrs Lynne Chatterton author of the recently published book From the Ground Up - Home Cooking without Fear who has been involved in dryland farming and practical food production all her life
Chair: Ms Maya Goburdhun, Navdanya
The lecture is based on a lifetime experience of growing food, working with farmers in developing countries, and urging people not to allow industrialised supermarket food to take over from fresh food cooked at home
Film on how small countries are becoming victims to the hazardous growth of developed nations. With global warming, sea levels are rising at an alarming rate and appeals to the international community, particularly developed nations does not elicit any response
Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929
Programme Type
Cultural
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Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929
- 4April 1968
Sharing of Thoughts and Ideas
Speakers: Suhas Borker on the Gandhi-King-Mandela Paradigm; Indu Prakash Singh on Homeless Citizens; Ramesh Sharma on Revisiting Naokhali; Rajendra Ravi on Environment and Transport; and Satyanarayana Sahu on Violence, Poverty and Illiteracy
Students from Schools of Delhi NCR will participate
From in the Foyer and QuadrangleGarden
Exhibition on King's Life and Mission
Songs and Candle Light Vigil
Programme organized as part of Taking Children to Gandhi series in collaboration with Gandhi Peace Foundation; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies
To mark 2500 years since the Battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. - an exhibition of photographic panels using 18th century texts, prints and engravings on the historic battle which played such an important role in shaping western civilization