CANCELLED

Roads of Bhakti Poetry
Speaker: Dr Andrew Schelling, Jack Kerouac School, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado

Chair: Vidya Rao, scholar and singer

A translator from Sanskrit, Pali and Hindi and author of six volumes of poetry indebted to studies in ecology and ethnopoetics, the speaker has edited The Oxford Anthology of Bhakti Literature (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011), and describes how Bhakti is "˜salted' with an intensity that requires intellectual effort and a great deal of honest probing to get close to, how efforts to break free of social constraint took hundreds of forms across India and the resonances this literature evokes for audiences far removed in time and place

Presented by Vidushi Malti Gilani

Vocal recitals by Himani Dalmia, Maya Saran and Bhaveen Gossain, accompanied on the tabla by Nawab Ali, and on the sarangi by Ghulam Sabir, Zamir Ahmed, Sajjad Ahmed

Followed by the screening of an audio-visual by Shri Avinash Pasricha
A Retrospective Journey: Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan

Nature, Environment and Tribal Experiences
Poetry reading by Leeladhar Mandloi, Director-General, All India Radio

Chair: Dr Ganga Prasad Vimal              

CELEBRATING WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP

Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy - A Legend unto Herself
Speaker: Dr V. Shanta, Chairperson & Executive Chairperson, Adyar Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, Padma Bhushan and Magsaysay awardee 

The Adyar Cancer Institute was established in 1954 by the Women's Indian Association Cancer Relief Fund, and in 1955 Dr V. Shanta joined as Resident Medical Officer. She thus earned the unique privilege of being associated with Dr Reddy and her visionary son and idealist Dr Krishnamurthi through the Institute's growth, and has been part and parcel of its tribulations, vicissitudes, fears, hope and achievements

MEDIATION, MOVEMENTS AND MEMORIES: THE 8TH IAWRT ASIAN WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
A festival of films exploring issues and ideas shaping Asian identities and experiences, of which many are being screened for the first time in Asia

Monday 5
SEMINAR? ??CONFERENCE ROOM-II, 10:00-17:30
Representing Children's Worlds: Gender, Media and Society
The seminar will explore the normative constructions and ideas of childhood and their representations in a range of contexts such as the media, conflict with authorities and armed conflict, and children's own expressions in the written and visual media. Speakers include Deepa Srinivas, Asha Singh, Nandini Chandra, Radha Misra, Dilnaz Boga, Shobna Sonpar, Deep Purkayastha and Kamla Bhasin

AUDITORIUM
18:00 
INAUGURATION OF FESTIVAL
18:30
Autumn Adiago (70 min; 2010; Japan)
Director: Tsuki Inoue
A nun who has just turned 40 becomes aware of her grief over her sexuality and starts to question how she lives. She struggles, suffers, and tries to find her identity
Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker

Round Table on The Naga Insurgency and the Future of the Talks

Participants: Shri P.C. Haldar, Interlocutor for Assam, former Chief of Intelligence Bureau; Shri  E.N. Rammohan, Member, National Security Council, former Director-General, Border Security Force and Shri Gopal Pillai

Moderator: Shri B.G. Verghese, Senior Journalist

Dealing with Diversity: Comparative Reflections between Europe, Austria and India

Speaker: Dr Anil Bhatti

Chair: Ms Viktoria Maria Wagner, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum

This lecture will examine how pluriculturalism is reflected in literary texts and translations, and also in the development of cityscapes and cultural memory

Kathak Recital

By Swati Wangoo Tiwari from Delhi, disciple of Smt Geetanjali Lal