Towards Growing Links between the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Australia
Speaker: The Hon. Michael Kirby, AC, CMG, former Justice, High Court of Australia

Chair: Shri Soli Sorabjee, President, IIC

By Shalini Gupta from Jaipur

Inauguration by Shri Keshav Malik on Thursday, 4th October, at 18:30

Did Rains do the Harappans In?
Speaker: Dr Shereen Ratnagar, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History (retd.), JNU

Chair: Dr Uma Chakravarti, Professor of History (retd.), Miranda House, DU

The title refers to the headline of a recent newspaper report on a research hypothesis which will be examined in this talk. A wider perspective will be attempted, touching on summer inundations, flashflood harvesting, stormwater drains, and winter showers, even the possible symbolic importance of the buffalo, all constituting  bronze-age monsoon management

Peace and Security in a Changing World

Speaker: Dr Louise Arbour, President and CEO, International Crisis Group

Chair: Amb.Naresh Chandra, former Ambassador to the USA

Odissi recital based on verses by sants and Sufis by Ranjana Gauhar from Delhi, disciple of Guru Mayadhar Raut

Accompanied by Suresh Sethi (vocal support), Prafulla Mangaraj (pakhawaj), Jeeban Prakash Das (sitar), Rajat Prasanna (flute) and Sanchita Banerjee (manjira)

14:00
Monisha Rajesh reads from Around India in 80 Trains and is in conversation with Parsa Venkateshwar Rao, Jr

15:00
Booker-shortlisted writer Jeet Thayil reads from Narcopolis and is in conversation with David Davidar, Publisher, Aleph Publishing

16:00
Israeli writers Dorit Rabinyan and Sarai Shavit in conversation with poet and publisher Sudeep Sen

17:00
British historian Roderick Mathews, author of Jinnah and Gandhi, in conversation with Swapan Dasgupta

18:00
Farrukh Dhondy reads from his new novel London Company, and is in conversation with Amit Baruah

19:00
Nilanjana Roy, author of Wildings, and Manu Joseph, author of The Illicit Happiness of Other People, in session

20:00
Sri Lankan writer Ru Freeman in session with Shastri Ramachandaran

Celebrating 25 years of Navdanya

AUDITORIUM
10:00 Earth celebration songs by schoolchildren
10:15 Lamp lighting
10:20 Film by Tadpole Artists' Collective on 25 years of Navdanya                                                   
10:30     Women in Defence of the Earth
              Honouring Earth Defenders Jean Grossholtz, Bimla Bahuguna and Radha Bhatt
12:30     Celebrating 25 years of Seed Sovereignty: Bija Swaraj
              Release of Global Report on Seed Freedom
      
GANDHI-KING PLAZA
14:30 Street play by The Players

AUDITORIUM 
15:00      Screening of Amrit Beej by Meera Dewan 
16:00     Celebrating 50 years of Silent Spring
 Release of Poison in our Food
18:30 Recital by Parvathy Baul

Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Radha Bhatt, Frances M. Lappé, Winona Laduke, Ivonne Baki, Maria Grazia Mammuccini, Caroline Lockhart, Kusum Panigrahi, Farida Akhtar, Sarita Kumari, Ilina Sen, Anna Powar, Nalini Gite, Rachna Dhingra, Mira Shiva, Vaibhav Singh & Debbie Barker

Auroville Talks

Talks on "City of the Future"; "Remembering the Future Gardens"; "Is there an Economy beyond Money?"; "A Site of Material and Spiritual Researches;" "An Education for Self-finding"; "Towards Integral Healing" and "Garbology 101"