INAUGURATION
10:00 – 11:00 2017
Lecture Room No.3, 4th Floor Rabindranath Tagore Centre, ICCR, 9, Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata
Opening Song: | Recitation from the Gitanjali in Persian and Bengali By Nahid Morshedlou and Ahmed Hussain Barbhuiya |
Welcome Address: | Dr Satyabrata Chakrabarti General Secretary, The Asiatic Society |
Inaugural Address: | Shri Sitaram Sharma Former Chairman, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata |
Introducing the theme of Conference: | Dr Syed Akhtar Husain President, IIPS |
Address by the Guest of Honour: | Shri Pankaj Rag IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India |
Key-note Address: | Professor Ahmad Karimi Hakkak Professor of Persian Language, Literature and Culture, University of Maryland, USA |
Presidential Address: | Professor Isha Mahammad President, The Asiatic Society |
Vote of Thanks: | Dr. Sujit Kumar Das Treasurer, The Asiatic Society Tea- 11:00 – 11:30 |