An Illustrated talk on Delhi's well-known and not-so-known monuments by conservationist Surekha Narain, a  Dilliwala  who leads popular heritage walks in and around Delhi

Ms Narain has agreed to take members for the following walks:

18 November 2011, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm:                                                                                                                                                    Walk in Jor Bagh to discover the Awadh connection. Here we explore a lesser-known Shia site with relics of Ali, the Prophet's son-in-law

25 November  2011,  4:00 pm  - 6:00 pm

 Walk around IIC for the architecture, history, birds, trees, butterflies. The area all around Lodhi Estate is an all time favourite for architecture, monuments and nature. 

Speaker: Shri Jagmohan, former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, and Union Minister

Chair: Ms Huegette La Belle, Chairperson, Transparency International, Berlin

Making Parliamentary Democracy Accountable:  Right to Recall and Right to Reject
Panelists: Dr. Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi                                                                        

 Dr. Avijit Pathak, Professor of Sociology, JNU; a representative of the Anna Hazare campaign
Discussants: Interns, Lok Sabha
 Moderator: Suhas Borker

Public Service Broadcasting Day commemorates the day in 1947 on which Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio to more than two lakhs of refugees at a camp in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi

Polish Legends story-telling by Seema Anand : 11:00 am

Pippi Longstocking  (Sweden) storytelling by Dr. Devika Rangachari: 3:00 pm

Piano Recital by renowned Hungarian pianist, Gergely Boganyi: 6:30 pm

Exhibition:  As part of the festival there will be a two-day flower exhibition in IIC Annexe                                        

Inauguration on 11th November at 4 pm. It will remain  open to the public until 5 pm on 13th November 2011

CANCELLED

Speaker: Prof. Indira Parthasarathy, well-known Tamil writer, Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akdemi Awardee

"˜Cilappadikaram' the ancient Tamil classic is an epic with a difference in its unusual title ("˜The Story of an Anklet'), with an unconventional hero and two wronged women as the lead women characters. The epic, treated as a play, is all about gender politics, and nationalistic aspirations. The "˜heroine' and "˜the other woman' suffer for no other reason than being women. The heroine suffers injustice from the husband and from the king of the neighbouring country. As it happens with our fables, the suffering woman is deified only after her death; "˜the other woman' embraces Buddhism, the Hindu religion having failed her. The Chera king, who constructs a temple to deify the heroine, invades the Northern region to bring the sacred stone from the Himalayas, using the tragedy of this situation as an emotional and cultural slogan for his political aspirations
 

CANCELLED

Shri P.S. Bawa, former DGP Delhi; and Mr. Vijay Kumar, DG, CRPF)New Delhi will discuss Enforcing Police Accountability through Civilian Oversight by Sankar Sen (New Delhi: Sage, 2010)

Chair: Shri Ved P. Marwah, former Governor of Manipur

Welcome by Dr. Manjari Tripathi,

Keynote Adress & Release of Souvenir

Chief Guest: Dr. R.C. Deka, Director, AIIMS

Experience of Caregivers

Mr. Rakesh Sood & Ms. Annie Sethi

Interactive Session - Panel Members

Smt. Nirmala Narula, Dr. Manjari Tripathi, Dr. K.S. Anand and Mrs. Renu Vohra

Vote of Thanks: Dr. S.N. Kuckreja