Annual festival of Kutumb Foundation

Saudagari (120 min)
A musical inspired by The Merchant of Venice
Adapted, directed and produced by Mohit and Sumit, peer leaders at Kutumb

Kutumb, which seeks to engage and enable young minds through creative art forms and active learning, presents an
adaptation of Shakespeare set in Delhi schools and colleges. Where everything is measured by money and "hip"-ness, and sacrifice is a fairly unknown phenomenon, where is the place for a friendship such as that of Antonio and Bassanio? What chance does a Portia have of standing up to the men in her world? And how can a Shylock come into his own with a caste tag around his neck?

Speaker: Prof Sumit Ganguly, Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor of Political Science, Indiana University

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, Chairperson, Research and Information System for Developing Countries

Workshop for people with impairments and care-givers

Ms Abha Khetarpal, Mr Samuel and Mrs Meenu Mani, Ms Abigail Rao and Ms Preeti Monga share how a spiritual perspective has helped them live with polio, cerebral palsy, hearing and visual impairments

Dr A.K. Merchant, Trustee, Bahá'í House of Worship; Rabbi E.I. Malekar, Judah Hyam Synagogue; Prof M.H. Qureshi, Shri A.M. Khwaja Chair, Jamia Millia Islamia; and Shri Armoogum Parsuramen, Founder, Global Rainbow Foundation, Mauritius, speak of the need to redress perceptions of disability as a punishment, curse or defect

Moderator: Ms Simmi Kher, Tony Blair Faith Foundation

Grey Matters

Dr Rakesh K. Chadda, President, Indian Association for Social Psychiatry; Dr (Brig) Sudarsanan, former Head of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College; and Dr Pulkit Sharma, Clinical Psychologist, VIMHANS Hospital, discuss The Tell-Tale Brain by V.S. Ramachandran (2010); The Woman who Changed her Brain by Barbara Arrowsmith-Young (2012); and Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman (2011).
Authors Arrowsmith-Young and Eagleman will take part in the discussion online

Chair: Dr Shayama Chona, President, Tamana

Discussion of three books, examining what mental disorders reveal about the brain's delicate equilibrium with the environment; narrating how a woman challenged by logic and language as a child devised mental exercises to rewire her brain (the Arrowsmith programme); and exploring the role of the unconscious in assembling a coherent picture of reality and in our moral conduct

Gross National Happiness Index of Bhutan

Speaker: H.E. Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, Minister of Works and Human Settlement, Government of Bhutan

Historic Landscapes: From Habitat to Monument
Speaker: Dr Narayani Gupta, Professor of History (retd.), Jamia Millia Islamia

Chair: Mr Mohammad Shaheer, landscape architect

(92 min; dvd; 2007; English & with subtitles)
Directors: Jules and Gédéon Naudet 

Perspectives on the rise of intolerance, fanaticism and war after 9/11, voiced by leaders like Pope Benedict XVI; the Dalai Lama; Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah; Michihisa Kitashirakawa of the Shinto Grand Shrine of Ise; Yona Metzger, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel; and Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Not in God's Name
(57 min; dvd; English)
Director: Paula Fouce

Leaders, practitioners and scholars of different faiths consider the causes of religious conflict

Lead Speakers: Mr Sven Harald Jurschewsky, Counsellor, High Commission of Canada, New Delhi; and Dr Sheel Kant Sharma, former Secretary General, SAARC, and Indian envoy in Vienna

Chair: H.E. Dr Tariq Karim, High Commissioner of Bangladesh

NELSON MANDELA AND SOUTH AFRICA'S ROAD TO DEMOCRACY

Speaker: Hon. Max Sisulu, Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa

Chair: H.E. Mr. Harris Majeke, High Commissioner of South Africa

Introduction: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Grop on Alternative Strategies

Speaker: Shri Vishnu Nagar, editor and satirist