FEST : The Festival of India at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 5pm onwards on 29th July 2017

Time : 5:00 pm onwards Add to Calendar 29/07/2017 17:00 29/07/2017 20:00 Asia/Kolkata FEST : The Festival of India Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2017/07/fest-festival-of-india-at-teen-murti.html Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : FEST : The Festival of India

The Festival of India is designed to celebrate the ideas of India. It seeks to spread awareness and rejoice in the ideas that India has given to the world. 

5:00 pm
Welcome address Shri Shakti Sinha, Director, NMML

5:05 pm
Inaugural Address: The Age of Indian Ideas is Here
The Honourable Textile Minister of India Smt. Smriti Irani

5:20 pm
The Magical Weave - Why India's textile history is a unique treasure
((The Honourable Textile Minister of India Smt. Smriti Irani in conversation with textile historian and revivalist Shri Rajeev Sethi))

5:50 pm
Not just the Zero - India's gifts of mathematics and science to the world
((Professor C. K. Raju, winner of the Telesio Galilei Academy Award for mathematics; part of the Indian super computer team in 1988))

6:10 pm
The Indian in the Indian Ocean 
((Shri Sanjeev Sanyal, author, historian))

6:30 pm
Can the warrior be a poet? The legacy of Guru Gobind Singh on his 350th birth anniversary
((Hindol Sengupta, author))

6:50 pm
10 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Indian Classical Music
((Ustad Shujaat Khan, Grammy Award nominee))

7:20 pm 
Closing Address
(Dr. Sachidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts)

(Programme moderated by Rishi Suri, co-founder Grin (www.grin.news), Chevening scholar and editor The Daily Milap.)

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