Events
Events:
Gandhi Jayanti Celebrations Oct 02, 2017
IISER Pune is happy to announce a special event to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October, 2017. There will be two talks (one in Hindi and one in English) and a Q&A session on Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy on truth, tolerance, non-violence, and swaraj. Speakers will particularly highlight how Gandhi's thoughts resonate a lot with scientific pursuits - pursuing truth/knowledge by a series of falsifications and validations, without claiming that our "hypothesis" is ultimate truth. Tolerance and non-violence would naturally emerge when these ideas are practised with integrity.
Venue: Sir CV Raman Auditoirum, IISER, Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan; Pune 411008
Date &Time: 2nd October, 10.00 am to 12.00 noon.
Programme:
10.00 -10.30 am: Satyagraha: Gandhi's experiments with truth (a talk in Hindi)
Speaker: Mr Vagish Jha, Delhi-based Historian and Educator
10.30 - 11.00 am: The Ethics of Tolerance/Toleration: Gandhian Perspectives
Speaker: Prof Neera Chandhoke, former Professor, University of Delhi
11.00 - 11.45 am: Q&A session with the speakers.
11.45 am - 12.00 noon: Felicitation of house-keeping staff and gardeners of IISER Pune.
The event is free and open to all.
