A celebration of girlhood with tales of girl empowerment old and new; a quiz on Indian women achievers; poster making; and a skit on girl power by children

Coordinated by Deepa Agarwal

Speakers: M.K. Raina, Kishore Singh, Anita Singh and Sanjeev Bhargava

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Architecture Without Frontiers? The Problem of the Past in a Global Practice of Architecture
Illustrated lecture by Shiben Banerji, PhD Candidate in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and a Research Fellow in the MIT Urbanization Laboratory. He has taught architecture, urban design and planning at MIT and Columbia University and was formerly Associate Director, Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai

Chair: Shri Snehanshu Mukherjee

It is generally assumed that modern architecture built outside Europe and North America must either be an instance of homogenization or an instance of contextualization. Motivating this general assumption is a conception of modernity as a universal future - applicable to everyone. The talk reveals a countervailing thesis of the internationality of modern architecture through an analysis of the American architects Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin, who practiced in the United States, Australia and India between 1895 and 1949

Revisiting Charvaka Darshana
Speaker: Dr. K.P. Shankaran, former Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Stephen's College, Delhi and author of Marx and Freud on Religion

Third in a series of monthly lectures on Indian spiritual thought that will explore some of the principal schools of Indian philosophy, their impact on Indian civilization, and contemporary relevance  

Indira Parthasarathy's play in Hindustani
Presented by New Delhi Theatre Workshop

Directed by K.S. Rajendran

The play explores the theme of struggles - the mutually contradictory dispositions of the various characters: Shahjahan and Aurangzeb; Dara and Aurangzeb; Jahanara and Roshanara; and finally Aurangzeb versus Aurangzeb in a masterly analysis of the conflicts that haunt an astute politician amidst a crumbling empire

Panelists: Prof. Hardyal Singh, Dean, Scholl of Inspired Leadership, Gurgaon & former Income-Tax Ombudsman in Mumbai and Additional Secretary, CVC; Shri D. Bandyopadhyay, MP, former Union Secretary, Revenue and Rural Development; Shri Shastri Ramachandran, independent journalist, Editor & writer; and Shri K.P. Fabian, Chair, K.P.S. Menon School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and former Indian Ambassador to Italy

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies