Programme schedule:
‘India’s Descent into Fascism: How Do We Stop It?
April 17 & 18, 2013
Convention Schedule
APRIL 17, 2013
8.00-9.00am Breakfast for outstation participants and
Registration
9.00-9.30am- Welcome
9.30-11.15- Session 1: Voices from the Ground: An
Overview of the Situation from different states:
Chair: Gagan Sethi
Speakers : Dr Anil Panikkar-Haryana, Faisal Anurag- Jharkhand, Kedar Misra-Orissa, Ramzan
Chodhury-Haryana, Prof Haragopal- Andhra Pradesh, Dr. A Suneetha, Andhra
Pradesh, Deepak Bhatt- MP
11.15-1.00pm: Session 2: Voices from the Ground: An
Overview of the Situation from different states:
Chair: Aruna Roy
Speakers: Anwar Ali- Kerala, Mohd Arif _UP, Neeraj Jain-Maharashtra, Pritha Kejriwal- West
Bengal, Rajendra Sail- Chattisgarh, Eric Pinto – Goa, Kashmir
1pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3.45pm-Session 3: Voices from the Ground: An
Overview of the Situation from different states:
Chair: Prof. Rooprekha Verma
Speakers : Zakia Soman-Gujarat, Tanzeel Rahman- Karnataka,
Yusuf Sheikh-Gujarat, Zamser Ali-Assam, Kavita Srivastava-Rajasthan, Arshad
Ajmal-Bihar
3.45-5.30pm: Session
4: Terror a Tool to Demonise Minorities and Sangh Terror Network
Chair: Dr. Ram Puniyani
Speakers: Manisha Sethi, Shahnawaz Alam, Subhash Gatade,
Rajeev Yadav, Ajit Sahi
5.30pm –TEA
7.00- 10pm: Celebrating
Diversity: An Evening of Poetry, Music and Dance
Welcome: Safeguarding and Celebrating Cultural Diversity:
Kamala Bhasin
ANHAD CULTURAL GROUP, URI, JAMMU & KASHMIR, AVNI SETHI,
DHRUV SANGARI, GAUHAR RAZA, GOVT GIRLS SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, BHALOUT,
ROHTAK, KHURSHID AKRAM, MANGLESH DABRAL, MAXFORT SCHOOL, DWARKA, NAMRATA
PAMNANI, SIDDHI GOMA TRIBAL DANCE GROUP, VIDYA SHAH, VISHNU NAGAR,
Documentaries on Anhad by Anhad Production House and Arma Ansari
April 18, 2013
9.00- 11.15: Session 5: Communalisation of Public and Private Spaces, Cultural,
Educational institutions and Media, Globalisation and Communalism
Chair: Colin Gonsalves
Speakers: Amit Sengupta, Anil Choudhry, Dr. Anupam Gupta,
Avinash Kumar, Dr Harvardhan
Hegde, Prof Atul Sood, Sukumar Muralidharan
11.15-1.00pm: Session 6: Political Response to
Growing Communalism
Chair: Mahesh Bhatt
Speakers: D Raja-CPI, Digvijay
Singh-Congress, DP Tripathi-NCP, Kavita Krishnan-CPI(ML), Ramvilas Pawan-LJP,
Sitaram Yechury-CPM
1.00pm-2pm-Lunch
2.00-4.30pm: Session 7: The Way Forward and
Recommendations
Chair: Prof KN Panikkar
Speakers: Syeda Hamid, Vrinda Grover, Seema Mustafa, Dr. KM
Shrimali, Harsh Mander, Dr John
Dayal