Economic Reforms and Growth
Speaker: Dr Bimal Jalan, former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

Speaker: Dr Suresh Sethuraman, Tamil Nadu State Convenor of INTACH, Chennai

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande, former Director, ASI

A multimedia presentation using excerpts from the book by Sathya Saran - the production presents rare insights into the mind and character of the filmmaker, Guru Dutt and  chronicles the most productive period of the life of one of India's most iconic filmmakers, through theatre, film and interactions of the protagonist Abrar Alvi (played by Saattvi) with the author Sathya Saran

Directed by Meenu

Inauguration by Shri Tejendra Khanna, Lt. Governor of Delhi

At 18:45
Dwarka and Bet Dwarka Undersea Excavations
Illustrated lecture by Dr Sila Tripathi, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa

Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Sorrow
(52 min; 1992; dvd; English)
Director: Manjira Datta

The Green Revolution has been credited with ensuring that developing nations no longer suffer from hunger, but 25 years on this documentary asks who the principal beneficiary has been? The poor peasant? The big farmer? The multinational corporation? It shows how in India the Revolution helped to create a new serf class, and that the crop yields of the early years fell away in the wake of pesticide poisoning and short-lived miracle wheat strains

Prof Jasodhara Bagchi, Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University, will release the book by social worker Ashoka Gupta, and deliver an address 

Followed by remarks by Prof Ilina Sen, Dept. of Women's Studies, TISS; and Ms Sarmishtha Dutt Gupta, co-editor of the volume

The Arts and Public Institutions
Panelists: Shri Suresh Neotia, Chairman, Jnana Pravaha; Shri O.P. Jain, Founder President, Sanskriti Foundation; Dr Kalyan K. Chakravarty, former Member Secretary, IGNCA; and Dr Jyotindra Jain, former Director, Crafts Museum

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, Executive Trustee, Raza Foundation