Films on Wildlife

15 January 2011, 05:30 am
Films on Wildlife

Women in Paradise (53 min; dvd; English)

Film courtesy: Centre for Science and Environment

 

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

15 January 2011, 05:30 am
Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929
Programme Type
Cultural

from 11:00 - 13:00 and 17:00 - 19:00 AUDITORIUM

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violence and the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 15 January 1929

- 4 April 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 17:00 - 19:00 in the Foyer and Quadrangle Garden

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

The Fort William Collection

13 January 2011, 05:30 am
The Fort William Collection

The Fort William Collection

An exhibition of one of the most precious and rare collection of books in English, Persian and Arabic

 

Inauguration by Ms Lata Reddy, Secretary East, Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday, 12 January  at 18:30

Kathak Recital

11 January 2011, 05:30 am
Kathak Recital
Programme Type
Cultural

Kathak Recital

By Isabelle Anna from France, disciple of Pt. Birju Maharaj

 

Simon Digby Memorial Lecture

10 January 2011, 05:30 am
Simon Digby Memorial Lecture
Programme Type
Talks

CANCELLED


A Runaway Mughal Prince

Lecture prepared by the late Simon Digby will be read by Dr. Shahid Amin, Department of History, University of Delhi

 

The Coolie Odyssey

08 January 2011, 05:30 am
The Coolie Odyssey
Programme Type
Cultural

The Coolie Odyssey

A play from South Africa based on the collection of poems by David Dabydeen

Directed by Rajesh Gopie

 

The play is a delicate and insightful production looking at the lives of the indentured workers from India who arrived in

Natal to work on the sugar plantations

Marathon - 2500 Years

04 January 2011, 05:30 am
Marathon - 2500 Years

 

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

Taijiquan: A Way of Self-Transformation

23 December 2010, 05:30 am
Taijiquan: A Way of Self-Transformation
Programme Type
Talks
Taijiquan: A Way of Self-Transformation

Speaker: Dr. Venessa Vidal, Teacher in Energetic and Body Arts; President and Founder of Somatic (Scientific Organisation on Medical Application and Therapeutic Investigation of Chi) based in Paris

Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, MP

Ear Acupuncture: An Innovative Diagnostic and Therapeutic System

22 December 2010, 05:30 am
Ear Acupuncture: An Innovative Diagnostic and Therapeutic System
Programme Type
Talks

Ear Acupuncture: An Innovative Diagnostic and Therapeutic  System

Speaker: Dr. Vidal Pascal, specialist in acupuncture, rural medicine and homoeopathy based in Paris; President, International College of Auriculomedicine and Auriculotherapy Review (ICAMAR)