Event Schedule
| FRIDAY 8/2/2019 |
Stage 1: SAMVAAD | Stage 2: SAMAAVESH | Kala Kaushal: Crafts Workshops |
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10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Kathak Performance by Vineet Nigam and group; Inauguration by Honourable Minister of Culture Dr. Mahesh Sharma | ||
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11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Plenary Session: Dharmic Capitalism: A New Economic Model for an Emerging World Order? | Gaur Gopal Das, Meghnad Desai, Rajeev Srivastava & Subhash Chandra | Shereen Bhan (M) | ||
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Are Bhakti and the Arts mutually exclusive in India? | Ananda Shankar Jayant, Lakshmi Vishwanathan, Shekhar Sen & Yatindra Mishra | Malavika Avinash (M) | History as the New Battleground | Lavanya Vemsani, Meenakshi Jain, Rizwan Qaiser, Saradindu Mukherji & Sunil Ambekar | Vikram Sampath (M) | Master Class: Patthachitra and Palm Leaf Painting |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM |
The 3 T's of Tradition: Temples, Textiles, Travel | Chithra Madhavan, Shefali Vaidya & Swami Mitrananda | Hema Hari (M) | Devabhasha: Sanskrit, the Language of the Gods | Kaushal Panwar, Nagaraj Paturi, Radhavallabh Tripathi & Shatavadhani Ganesh | D K Hari (M) | |
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2:00 PM-3:00 PM |
The Importance of Inter-Faith Dialogues | Imam Tawhidi in conversation with Rajiv Malhotra & Vishwa Adluri | Clear are the Paths of India: Cultural and Political Encounters of Indians and Jews | Shimon Lev in conversation with Khinvraj Jhangid | Master Class: Paper Machie and Madhubani Painting of Bihar |
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3:00 PM-4:00 PM |
Statecraft in India- from the times of the Mahabharata and Chanakya | Ashwin Sanghi, Gautam Chikermane, & Pavan Varma | Sudhir Chaudhary (M) | Ya Devi Sarva Bhuteshu: The Divine Feminine in Indic Belief | Madhu Khanna & Sonal Mansingh| Shefali Vaidya (M) | |
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM |
The Forgotten Legacy of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee | Tathagata Roy in conversation with Shubhrastha | A Quest for the Eternal: Sufism in South Asia | Alan Godlas, Carl Ernst & Hasan Kerim Guc | Syed Salman Chisty(M) Followed by a Performance by the Shahi Qawwals of Ajmer Sharif | Master Class: Cherial Saw Dust Masks and Mask Painting of Telangana |
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5:00 PM-5.45 PM |
Evening Shadows: Kavya Sandhya | Sudeep Sen, Rehman Musawwir & Yatindra Mishra | ||
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5:45 PM-6:30 PM |
Shanti Samsara: Living in Harmony with the Environment | Address by Ricky Kej | Gotipua Dance Performance from Odisha | Master Class: Warli Tribal Painting of Maharashtra |
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6:45 PM-8:30 PM |
Love and the Divine: A Carnatic Clasical Concert' by Bombay Jayashri | ||
| SATURDAY 9/2/2019 |
Stage 1: SAMVAAD | Stage 2: SAMAAVESH | Kala Kaushal: Crafts Workshops | Taare Zameen Par: Kids Section |
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10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Activism via the Arts: Legitimate or Opportunistic? | Ananda Shankar Jayant, Malavika Avinash, Swarnamalya Ganesh & Vivek Agnihotri | Shubhrastha (M) | Great Minds from Bengal: Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo | Hindol Sengupta, Sounak Chattopadhyay & Swapan Dasgupta | Kanchan Gupta (M) |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
Subramaniam Swamy in conversation with Anuraag Saxena | The land of Zero: Origins of India's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Journey | Gautam Desiraju, Krishnamurthy Ramasubramaniam, Mayank Vahia & Sangeeta Menon | Anand Ranganathan (M) | Master Class: Sanjhi Paper Cutting of Uttar Pradesh |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
Demystifying Tantra | David Frawley, Dipankar Khanna, Madhu Khanna, Rajib Sarma & Yogini Shambhavi | Vikram Sampath (M) | Scripting an Indic Narrative | Abhijit Majumdar, Rahul Roushan, R. Jagannathan, Shubhrastha & Sree Iyer | Dimple Kaul (M) [Followed by unveiling of books published by Indic Academy] | ||
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM |
Address by Arnab Goswami | Master Class: Kangra Miniature of Himachal Pradesh | Indic Philosophy for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 8-12 | |
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2:00 PM-3:00 PM |
Jaat Na Poocho Sadhu Ki: The Scourge of Caste | Abhinav Prakash, Chilkur Rangarajan, Guru Prakash & Kaushal Panwar| Pooja Paswan (M) | We, the Country of Story Tellers | Amish Tripathi, Kishwar Desai, Makarand Paranjpe, Nagaraj Paturi & Vineet Bajpai| Hari Kiran Vadlamani (M) | Indic Philosophy for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 13-17 |
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3:00 PM-4.00 PM |
Feminism and Tradition: Compatible or at Odds? | Lavanya Vemsani, Raveena Tandon & Smriti Irani | Vikram Sampath (M) | The Epic Saga: Mahabharata, the Tale of Human Nature| Nilesh Oak & Vishwa Adluri | Gautam Chikermane (M) | Master Class: Pottery From Rajasthan | Ancient Indian History for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 8-12 |
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4:00 PM-5.00 PM |
Alternative Narratives of India's Freedom Struggle | Kishwar Desai, Prasenjit Basu, Sanjeev Sanyal & Saradindu Mukherji | Hindol Sengupta (M) | Pandavani performance by Teejan Bai | Ancient Indian History for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 13-17 |
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5:00 PM-6.30 PM |
Film Premier: "Blood Buddhas" by Nikhil SIngh Rajput; followed by a discussion: "Bringing our Gods Home" | Amish Tripathi, Anuraag Saxena, David Frawley, Domenic DiGiovanni & Tess Davis | Master Class: Chittara Painting from Karnataka | TAMING OF THE WILD, Puppet Performance by DOLLS THEATRE | |
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6:30 PM-8:00 PM |
Ayodhya & Sabarimala: Where Faith Intersects the Law | Atiq Ur Rehman, Chilkur Rangarajan, Gopi Shanker M, Koenrad Elst, Jai Sai Deepak, Meenakshi Jain, Rizwan Qaiser, Shaina N.C. & Swarnamalya Ganesh | |||
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8:00 PM-9:00 PM |
Performance by Bombay Bairaag | |||
| SUNDAY 10/2/2019 |
Stage 1: SAMVAAD | Stage 2: SAMAAVESH | Kala Kaushal: Crafts Workshops | Taare Zameen Par: Kids Section |
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10:00 AM-11:00 AM |
Conquest without Coercion: India's Civilizational Outreach| Hari Kiran Vadlamani, Prasenjit Basu, Sudhir Devare & Shimon Lev | Anuraag Saxena (M) | Rituals: Balancing Traditions and Modernity | D.K. Hari, Dushyant Shridhar & Pradeep Chakravarty | Hema Hari (M) |
11:00 AM-12:00 PM |
The Mystery of the Netaji Files: Rediscovering the Forgotten Chapter of Indian History| Talk by Anuj Dhar | Baul Performance by Gautam Das Baul | Master Class: Patua Painting of Bengal |
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12:00 PM-1:00 PM |
North East Percussion Ensemble | Aryan Invasion Theory: A Myth or Reality? | Anil Suri, David Frawley, Koenrad Elst & Niraj Rai | Anand Ranganathan (M) | Indic Philosophy for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 8-12 | |
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1:00 PM-2:00 PM |
The Song of the Divine: Bhagavad Gita & its Universal Message| Bibek Debroy and Meghnad Desai | Nilesh Oak (M) | Media & Culture: The Connects and the Disconnects | Kanchan Gupta, Madhu Kishwar, Shehzad Poonawalla, Sree Iyer & Tarek Fatah | Kunal Majumder (M) | Indic Philosophy for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 13-17 | |
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2:00 PM-3:00 PM |
Sarve Santu Niramaya: Wellness in the Indic Thought | David Frawley, Rama Jayasundar & Yogini Shambhavi | Ushma Williams (M) | Agar Firdaus Zamin Ast: The Lost Traditions of Kashmir | Rahul Pandita, Sangeeta Menon, Sushil Pandit & Subhash Kak | Aditya Raj Kaul (M) | Master Class: Bhil Pithora Tribal Painting of Madhya Pradesh | Ancient Indian History for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 8-12 |
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3:00 PM-4:00 PM |
The Grand Indian Narrative | Rajiv Malhotra in conversation with TV Mohandas Pai | Ancient Indian History for Children by Ushma Williams Ages 13-17 | ||
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4:00 PM-5:00 PM |
Sarve Santu Niramaya: Wellness in the Indic Thought | David Frawley, Rama Jayasundar & Yogini Shambhavi | Ushma Williams (M) | All is Fair in Love: LGBTQIA+ Community in the Indian Tradition | Ashok Row Kavi, Gopi Shankar Madurai, Jerry Johnson & Tarek Fatah | Kunal Majumder (M) | Master Class: Sanganer Block Printing of Rajasthan | Tholpavakoothu - The Story of the Ramayana (Shadow Puppet Performance of Kerala) |
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5:00 PM-6:00 PM |
Meri Fitarat Hai Mastana | Manoj Muntashir in a poetic conversation with Arjun Singh Kadian | Ekam Sat Vipraha Bahudha Vadanti: The Eternal Message of the Indic Faiths | Acharya Lokesh Muni, Dipankar Khanna, Harbhajan Singh, Pavan Varma & Subhash Kak | Hindol Sengupta (M) | Master Class: North East | |
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6:00 PM-7.00 PM |
Advertising & Culture | By Piyush Pandey; followed by conversation with Sundeep Bhutoria | Manipuri Raas Leela Performance | ||
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7:00 PM-8:30 PM |
A Confluence | Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and the Manganiyars of Rajasthan | |||
