Programme

SATURDAY 26th NOVEMBER

9.30-10.00

Arrivals and Greetings

10.15 - 10.30

Welcome messages from Julia Hobsbawm of Editorial Intelligence and Javed Gaya, Chair, Names Not Number Mumbai 2011.

One minute's Silence for the Victims of the Mumbai Attacks 26/11/2008 followed by music by classical Indian vocalist Purvi Parikh

10.30 - 10.45

Recorded remarks from Nobel Laureate, Professor Amartya Sen, specially recorded at Trinity College, Cambridge for the occasion, and in the Hall,  Dr Shashi Tharoor MP, MP & author, on: '26/11: Three Years Later' .

10.45 - 11.30

India's Place in a Threatening World
Chair: James Crabtree, Financial Times
Panel to include:  Mihir Bose, Writer & Broadcaster; Narinder Nayar, Mumbai First & Managing Director, Concast (India) Limited and Dr Shashi Tharoor MP, MP & Author and Tristram Hunt MP, author

11.30 – 11.45

Tea Break

11.45 - 12.45

Business Responsibility: Philanthropy and Individualism; Corporate Individuality and Accountability
Chair: Jo Johnson MP, former Associate Editor, Financial Times & author ‘Reconnecting Britain and India - Ideas for an Enhanced Partnership'
Panel to include: Vinita Bali, Managing Director, Britannia Industries Vikram Mehta, Chairman, Shell India; Nasser Munjee, Chairman, DCB and Roopa Purushothaman, Managing Director – Research, Everstone Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd

12.45 – 14.15

Launch of Financial Times India app in the gardens over lunch. Including remarks from Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director, FT.com

14.15  

Afternoon Session Begins. Welcome remarks from Rob Lynes, British Council.    
 

14.15 – 15.05

The Singular Influence of Cinema on Media & Communications
Chair: Professor Rachel Dwyer, Professor of Indian Culture and Cineman, SOAS
Panel: R Balakrishnan (Balki), Chairman & Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas, Mumbai; Shyam Benegal, writer and director; Amit Khanna, Head, Reliance Entertainment and Meera Syal, Actor, writer and bestselling author

15.05 – 16.10

The New Digital Individual: Is New Technology Liberating or Enslaving? 
Chair: Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director, FT.com
Panel: Aditya Dev Sood,  Founder, Center for Knowledge Socities; Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder & CEO, Kyoorius Group; Dan Lloyd, Director of Public Policy for Emerging Markets, Vodafone and Nishant Shah, Director, the Center for Internet and Society
 

16.10 – 16.25

Tea Break
 

16.25 - 16.30

Dance by Gauri Sharma Tripathi, Artist In Residence, South Bank Centre, London.

16.30 – 17.15

Crisis & Culture: Does Creativity Thrive on Turmoil?
Chair: Sujata Sen, British Council
Panel to include: Kishwar Desai, novelist & Winner Costa First Novel Award 2010; Dr. Rashmi Poddar, Director Jnanapravaha Mumbai Art History & Aesthetics and Parmesh Shahani, Head of India Culture Lab, Author of ‘Gay Bombay’ & editor-at-large of ‘Verve’

17.15 – 18.15

One To One : Writer & critic A.A. Gill in conversation with Restaurateur & Culinary Author, Camellia Panjabi

19.00 - 21.00

Evening cocktail reception hosted by The Oberoi Group.
Remarks from Devendra Bharma, Oberoi Hotels & Resorts and Sunita Rajan, BBC