An exhibition of photographs taken by 32 young women and men who took to the streets of Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad in the winter and spring of 2010 to document the lives of Afghans - their hardships and their joys

Nuclear Safety and India

Speakers: Prof. Suresh Kumar, Assistant Professor & radiological Safety Officer, Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi; Shri R. Sreedhar, Chairperson, MM &p - Mines, Minerals and People; and Shri Praful Bidwai, Senior journalist

Moderator: Shri Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link

Director: Nirmal Chander who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Haider, a taxi driver by profession, dreams of visiting India to see the Taj Mahal. The only problem is that he lives in Pakistan!

Presentations by young scholars - Ali Ahmed; Alankrita Sinha; Sheeba Naaz; Samarjit Ghosh, Aditi Malhotra and Rohit Singh

Remarks by resource persons: Shri T.C.A. Rangachari; Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar and Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera

Speaker: Professor A.J.R. Groom, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury who was the Founder and Chairman, European Stanidng Group for International Relations, Chairman of BISA and Vice-President of ISA; a member of the Executive Commitee of the European Consortium for Political Research and a board member of the Academic Council foro the United Nations System.  He is currently Executive Secretary of the World International Studies Committee and the Academic Director, European Summer University

Chair: Shri C.R. Gharekhan, formerly India's Permanent Representative to the UN

Illustrated lecture by Kamalini Dutt, former Director, Doordarshan Archives

At 18:30 - Dance Festival

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Mythili Prakash from Chennai

Kathak Recital

By Namrata Pamnani from Delhi

Theory and Practice of Bhava and Abhinaya in Bharata's Natyashastra

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sandhya Purecha from Mumbai

At 18:30 - Dance Festival

Odissi Recital

By Arushi Mudgal from Delhi

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Praveen from Bangalore

Accompanists: D.S. Srivatsa (nattuvangam & vocal); Lingaraju (mridangam); and V.S.K. Chakrapani (violin)

A multi-media solo theatre-dance presentation by Mandakini Trivedi from Mumbai

Based on Kalidasa'a Kumarasambhava, "˜Shiva -Parvati Vivaha' is a multi-media, solo, dance theatre presentation exploring the styles of Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam and Kathakali through its various characters. A slide show in the traditional Indian schools of painting depicts scenes from the story weaving the presentation together

The Quantum Activist (77 mins; DVD; English)

Director: Dr Amit Goswami

The film tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality with a force and scope not felt since Einstein