Panel 2: Prof Anil Sethi, Prof Afsan Chowdhury, Dr Shubra Chaterjee, Swaleha Alam Shehzada, moderated by Mrs Devi Kar Discussions following the first panel spilled into the coffee break and the Harrington Arts Centre was abuzz with intense conversations. The second panel started at 11.30 a.m. with Mrs Devi Kar as the moderator. The panellists…
One of the most important aims of the conference was to engage with not just the speakers and presenters, but with each and every participant. The World Cafe session in the afternoon of Day 1 proved to be an extremely effective way of getting intense debates going. Group discussion leader: Dr Vishwamohan Jha [Reporter: Paroma Sengupta]…
Professor Sethi in his workshop presented a template of recording and teaching history and suddenly, everyone found themselves back in a classroom. The very first element of the model requires the historian or the teacher in the classroom to raise problems for analysis –- at what time does Sikhism begin to be recognised as a…
Day 2 At the end of the first day of the conference, Ms Malhotra was convinced that we had packed too much material into the first day and that the participants would perhaps take the day off. She was, however, ecstatic to be corrected as everyone came back for another day of intense disscussions. Keynote:…
On the third day of the conference, the clouds broke down on Kolkata. Roads were flooded, and as I waded through Ho Chi Minh Sarani with Aditi Banerjee at my side, we feared that waterlogged neighbourhoods would deter the participants. No such thing occurred however, and very soon towels and irons were brought out to…
