Empowering the Mind to Control Chronic Pain

Speaker: Prof Manju Mehta, Department of Psychiatry, AIIMS

Launch of IIC Publication

A Tangled Web: Jammu and Kashmir

Special issue of the IIC Quarterly co-published with HarperCollins India Limited, 2011
Edited by Ira Pande
Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the volume

Followed by a discussion

Kama Sutra: Beyond the Stereotype

Shri A. N. D. Haksar will speak about his new translation of an old classic

Chair: Dr Kapila Vatsyayan, MP

Bharatanatyam Recital

By Anuradha Venkataraman from Delhi, disciple of Smt Saroja Vaidyanathan

India and the Rise of Africa: New Strategies and Approaches to Synergy for Sustainable Development

discussion on the eve of the Second India-Africa Summit at Addis Ababa

Panelists: Shri Shashank, former Foreign Secretary and Chairman of the African Studies Association of India; H.E. Mrs. Gennet Zewide, Ambassador of Ethiopia; H.E. Mr. Khaled El Bakly, Ambassador of Egypt; H.E. Mr. Harris M Majeke, High Commissioner of South Africa; H. E. Mr. Adeboblo Labiran, Acting High Commissioner of Nigeria; Shri Vijay Naik, Consulting Editor, Sakal Group and Shri Siddharth Varadarajan, Associate Editor, The Hindu, New Delhi

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker

Jab they Met

Presented by Living Room Theatre

Directed by Sarita Vohra

Play in Hindi, English and Urdu about an old school group who meet again for a reunion 35 years after leaving school. Humour, wit and nostalgia mark the three days they spend together

Kabul: Through the Eyes of Afghan Youth

An exhibition of photographs taken by 32 young women and men who took to the streets of Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif and Jalalabad in the winter and spring of 2010 to document the lives of Afghans - their hardships and their joys

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

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