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The Twentieth Annual Tagore Festival

October 24-25, 2008
Urbana, Illinois

Ocean of Peace:
Tolerance and Sustenance for All

sponsored by the Bengali Students Association and SPICMACAY

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941

 

 

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Friday evening, October 24

Location: Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon Street, Urbana

All events are open to the public and free of charge except for the dinner.

6:00 pm

Reception
6:15 pm Invocation
6:30 pm Children's Dance
6:45 pm

Dinner
$12 adults; $10 students. Reservations required.
8:00 pm

Cultural Program
Madhuri Das, Bangladesh: Tagore Songs
Arnab Chakraborty, Mumbai: Sarod
Subrata Bhattacharya, Kolkata: Tabla

Saturday afternoon, October 25

Location: Channing Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon Street, Urbana

All events are open to the public and free of charge.

1:30 pm Reception
2:00 pm

Keynote Speech:
The Politics of Intolerance in South Asia
by Dr. Sumit Ganguly,Tagore Professor
Indiana University, Bloomington

What explains the growing tides of ethno-religious intolerance and violence in South Asia? This lecture will try and trace the origins of such religious intolerance and ethnic hatred and attempt to provide some possible means for containing these disturbing trends.
3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Interfaith Dialogue
Dr. Rajmohan Gandhi, Dr. Mir Ali, Dr. Robert McKim, Dr. Rajeshwari Pandharipande, Dr. Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, and Rev. Axel Gehrmann

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Sponsors

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Graphic arts by Manideepa Sengupta