Ram-Rasa: Experiencing through Sankirtan

A musical led by neuro-divergent creative professionals committed to bridging the gap between traditional spirituality and modern accessibility and promoting inclusion in true sense.

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(Collaboration: Inclusive Spaces)
 

Keynote Address: Dr Prasun Chatterjee, Chief, Geriatric Medicine, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
Clinical perspectives on inflammAgeing, chronic disease prevention, and extending healthspan
 

Followed by a Panel Discussion with an interactive Q&A session, exploring how clinical medicine, nutrition science, and lifestyle interventions converge to regulate inflammation and influence ageing outcomes, featuring:
Discussants: Dr Pankaj Verma, Medical Director, Antara Integrated Wellness Centre, Gurugram; Dr Aarti Midha, Integrative Psychiastrist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Jaipur; Dr Pratap Chauhan, Founder & Director - Jiva Ayurveda ; Ishi Khosla, Clinical Nutritionist, Founder – Celiac Society of India

Moderator: Dr Arjun Dang, CEO and Partner, Dr Dang’s Lab

A science-led programme exploring how chronic inflammation drives ageing and how the gut microbiome regulates immunity, metabolism, musculoskeletal integrity and cognitive function.

(Collaboration: Celiac Society of India, supported by Illness to Wellness Foundation)
 

Integrated Yoga Module for Rehabilitation of age-related ailments
 

The programme seeks to create awareness and provide practical exposure to yoga-based rehabilitation for common age-related conditions, including balance and mobility issues, depression, anxiety and other stress-related disorders, as well as digestive concerns, diabetes, hypertension and obesity.

The programme will entail a brief theoretical introduction, followed by guided practical demonstrations. Participants with physical limitations will be supported through chair yoga practices. The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Rabindra Acharya, Director, S-VYASA.

(Collaboration: Ayushman India and Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana (SVYASA)
 

Music from the tribal North East of India

An illustrated lecture presented by Amb. Gautam Mukhopadhaya 
 
Amb. Gautam Mukhopadhaya is a former Indian Ambassador to Syria, Afghanistan and Myanmar. Unschooled in music, his taste in music as a listener evolved from old Hindi film and Western pop music, to progressive rock and jazz and later Hindustani classical and South Asian folk and devotional music in his early years, to include international or so-called 'world' music ranging from early European, Latin American, and increasingly in the course of his life and career, African, West Asian, South East and East Asian music, and contemporary world music. 
 

The Right to Dream: JP's life and legacy
 

Yogendra Yadav and Anand Kumar in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Ashutosh Bhardwaj.
This is the 21st Conversation in this Series

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)
 

Chandigarh – A World View
 

Speaker: Peter Sanders, an Australian architect, planner, and artist

Moderator: Rajesh Luthra, an architect and urban designer, Principal at Development Consortium, and Visiting Professor at the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.

Drawing on his first-hand experience of working in Chandigarh in the early 1960s, the talk examines the city’s global significance in modern architecture and urban planning, reflecting on Le Corbusier’s vision, Pierre Jeanneret’s role, and the broader implications of international architectural collaboration in post-Independence India.
 

Aaj Kavita 
 

Poetry readings by Pankaj Rag, Gaurav Pandey, Amrit Ranjan and Hemant Devalikar

(Collaboration: Raza foundation)
 

In Conversation

Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhyay was India’s Ambassador to Syria (2006-08), Afghanistan (2010-13) and Myanmar (2013-16) with Thant Myint-U, award-winning historian, writer, conservationist and international public servant. An honorary fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and a recipient of a Padma Shri from the Government of India;

A thought-provoking chat with acclaimed historian Thant Myint-U and his book which traces his grandfather’s (U Thant, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations) integral yet forgotten roles in some of the twentieth century’s most critical crises. Drawing on newly declassified documents, he traces U Thant’s tireless efforts to bring peace to Vietnam, create a fairer international economy, safeguard the environment and avoid a third world war.

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
Aesthetics of Film Music                                                                                                                                                     

 An illustrated presentation by Dr Mrudula Dadhe Joshi

The presentation will demonstrate various aesthetic elements observed in the making of Hindi Film Music. It will further examine the application of various gharanas used in Hindi film music.

Dr Mrudula Dadhe Joshi an expert in film music, singer, writer, and faculty member for Light Vocal Music at Mumbai University 

Memory, Migration and the Archive: The Transnational Afterlives of Family Photographs

Speaker: Özge Baykan Calafato, an academic, curator, and writer. A lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. She is the author of Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2022).

Moderator: Prof. Sabeena Gadihoke, a scholar, documentary filmmaker, and photo historian, and a long-time faculty member at AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia.

How do photographs travel across borders, lives, and generations, and what forms of personal and collective memory do they invoke? This talk traces the intricate entanglements of transnational memory, migration histories, and photographic archives.