Environment and Health Public Lecture Series

Nuclear Safety and India

Speakers: Prof. Suresh Kumar, Assistant Professor & radiological Safety Officer, Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi; Shri R. Sreedhar, Chairperson, MM &p - Mines, Minerals and People; and Shri Praful Bidwai, Senior journalist

Moderator: Shri Ravi Agarwal, Director, Toxics Link

As nations around the world are looking for options to meet their future energy demands to sustain economic growth, nuclear energy is being considered one of the major and most talked about options globally. India too has opted nuclear as one of the critical alternatives to quench its growing energy thirst in the coming days. However, in the wake of the recent disasters witnessed at Fukushima city, Japan, has raised certain critical questions on the overall nuclear safety regime worldwide. Since India is one of the front-runners in expanding its nuclear energy programme, it is imperative that the nation discusses the issue of safety in the holistic terms

Dreaming Taj Mahal

Director: Nirmal Chander who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

Haider, a taxi driver by profession, dreams of visiting India to see the Taj Mahal. The only problem is that he lives in Pakistan!

YOUNG VOICES, ALTERNATIVE IDEAS THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN

Presentations by young scholars - Ali Ahmed; Alankrita Sinha; Sheeba Naaz; Samarjit Ghosh, Aditi Malhotra and Rohit Singh

Remarks by resource persons: Shri T.C.A. Rangachari; Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar and Prof. Ajay Darshan Behera

THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: REFORM BY STEALTH?

Speaker: Professor A.J.R. Groom, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Kent at Canterbury who was the Founder and Chairman, European Stanidng Group for International Relations, Chairman of BISA and Vice-President of ISA; a member of the Executive Commitee of the European Consortium for Political Research and a board member of the Academic Council foro the United Nations System. He is currently Executive Secretary of the World International Studies Committee and the Academic Director, European Summer University

Chair: Shri C.R. Gharekhan, formerly India's Permanent Representative to the UN

Doordarshan Dance Archives: Telling its Story

Illustrated lecture by Kamalini Dutt, former Director, Doordarshan Archives

At 18:30 - Dance Festival

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Mythili Prakash from Chennai

Kathak Recital

By Namrata Pamnani from Delhi

World Dance Day Celebrations 2011: 30th April and 1st May

Theory and Practice of Bhava and Abhinaya in Bharata's Natyashastra

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sandhya Purecha from Mumbai

At 18:30 - Dance Festival

Odissi Recital

By Arushi Mudgal from Delhi

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Praveen from Bangalore

Accompanists: D.S. Srivatsa (nattuvangam & vocal); Lingaraju (mridangam); and V.S.K. Chakrapani (violin)

India's Best Kept Secret - The Sarasvati Mahal Library

's Best Kept Secret - The Sarasvati Mahal Library

Illustrated lecture by Shri Pradeep Chakravarthy, Chennai based historian, columnist and author of The Cultural History of Thanjavur

The Sarasvati Mahal Library, which dates from the 16^th century, has a staggering collection of manuscripts, many not found elsewhere in the world. The subjects range from philosophy, music, dance, water divining, medicine, veterinary science, food and astrology

Shiva Parvati Vivaha

A multi-media solo theatre-dance presentation by Mandakini Trivedi from Mumbai

Based on Kalidasa'a Kumarasambhava, "˜Shiva -Parvati Vivaha' is a multi-media, solo, dance theatre presentation exploring the styles of Bharatanatyam, Mohiniattam and Kathakali through its various characters. A slide show in the traditional Indian schools of painting depicts scenes from the story weaving the presentation together

FILMS ON SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH

The Quantum Activist (77 mins; DVD; English)

Director: Dr Amit Goswami

The film tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality with a force and scope not felt since Einstein

Purani Dilli Festival

Dastaan-e-Purani Dilli (105 min)

Conceptualised and directed by Kulsoom Noor Saifullah and Begum Zakia Zaheer

With Syeda Hameed, Ghazala Amin, Shovana Narayan, Farhan Mujib, Rene Singh and Murad Ali

Principal narrator: Begum Zakia Zaheer

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