Speakers: H.E. Shri M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India; Shri Shivraj V. Patil, Governor of Punjab; and Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal

Part of a series to mark the birth centenary of the former President R. Venkataraman

Speakers: H.E. Shri M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India; Shri Shivraj V. Patil, Governor of Punjab; and
Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal

Part of a series to mark the birth centenary of former President R. Venkataraman

Entry by invitation only

Due to security concerns, this programme is open only to IIC Members. Members are requested to please present their membership cards at the doors for entry

Hymns in Praise of Twenty One Tara: Arya Tara Namaskaraikavimsati Stotram
Illustrated lecture and rendition of chants in praise of Goddess Tara in Mahayana Buddhist tradition
Presented by Raji Ramanan

Chair: Geshe Dorji Damdul, Director, Tibet House

Speaker: Shri Satish Magar, Chairman and MD, Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company Ltd.

The BCF 10th Annual Lecture in collaboration with Business and Community Foundation

`Mother India'

Speaker: Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor, West Bengal

Icon, metaphor and palladium, "˜Mother India' has personified a conjured past as well as a future epiphenomenon. Mother India was the title of Katherine Mayo's controversial 1927 book which Gandhi described as "˜the report of a drain inspector'. It was also the name of the celebrated 1957 film produced and directed by Mehboob Khan in which Nargis reached an unexpected pinnacle of achievement.

The lecture will explore the voltages of imagination and the outages of dismay that lie beneath that never-to-be-reviled name, which carries a halo and also, perhaps, like Nargis as Radha, a crushing weight

(Organised by the Rosalind Wilson Memorial Trust)"˜

A two-day seminar on rare aspects in the Kathak form of dance
Conducted by Guru Rani Khanam, Kathak exponent and choreographer

Presentations by Dr. Maya Rao; Smt Leela Venkataraman; Smt Sunainaya Hazari Lal; Shri Ravindra Mishra;
Smt Arshiya Sethi; Shri Subhash Chandra; Smt Manjushree Chatterji; and Ms Saswati Sen

Chishti Harmony Awards

Release of a book Living in Harmony: Towards Resolution of Ayodhya Issue

Qawwallis
Presented by Qawwals from the Chishti order of Ajmer Sharif

Women and Mathematics: A Perspective
Speaker: Prof. Geetha Venkataraman, School of Liberal Studies/Undergraduate Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi

Chair: Prof. Irfan Habib, Professor, Maulana Azad Chair, National University of Educational Planning and Administration

Does Mathematics attract women practitioners? What can be said about the number and proportion of women in mathematics? What is the impact of societal pressures on women doing mathematics? This and many other issues will be examined with statistical data, anecdotes, perceptions and vignettes to provide some insights