Events At a Glance... - Nehru Centre

“Internal Security”Events At a Glance...

1

Nehru Centre Newsletter - May 2014 1

To commemorate late Shri Y.B.

Chavan's enormous contributions to

National Security, Nehru Centre had

organized seminars during his birth

centenary year.

Dr. Pushpita Das, Associated Fellow,

Institute for Defence Studies and

Analyses presented her paper on

"Managing borders and coasts for a

secure India'.

Some excerpts of her talks were

incorporated in the Newsletter for

March and April 2014. Following are

some more excerpts:

Shortcomings in the response

mechanism

Despite the many measures and an

elaborate system for securing and

managing India's borders and coasts,

cases of infiltration, trafficking of

drugs and arms and ships drifting

undetected demonstrate several

shortcomings in the system. Of

course shortcomings such as

i n a d e q u a t e m a n p o w e r a n d

infrastructure, lack of proper

training, bureaucratic delays and

hurdles, lackadaisical attitude of

state governments etc. are there and

no doubt adversely affect the

effective functioning of the system.

However, the more important

s h o r t c o m i n g i s t h e l a c k o f

coordination among the many

ministries and departments at both

the central and state levels involved

in border management and coastal

security. Lack of coordination not

only impacts the functioning of the

system as a whole but also hampers

the formulation of an integrated

a p p r o a c h t o w a r d s b o r d e r

management and coastal security.

An estimated 22 different ministries

and departments are involved in

securing and managing India’s

borders and coasts. At the central

level alone, these include the

Ministries of Home Affairs, Defence,

Vol. 15 Issue 5 MAY 2014Vol. 15 Issue 5 MAY 2014

Discovery of India BuildingDr. Annie Besant Road,Worli, Mumbai - 400 018.Phone : 2496 4676Fax : 2497 3827

E-Mail: [email protected]: www.nehru-centre.org

NewsletterNewsletterPrice Rs. 10/- Per Copy Price Rs. 10/- Per Copy Annual Subscription Rs. 100Annual Subscription Rs. 100

Summer Workshops 2014

For Secondary School Students during summer 2014.

Date: 06th May to 20th MayTime: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Venue: Hall of Quest, Nehru Planetarium

Entrance to the Workshop is free

For details contact: Ms Manasi AnjarlekarNehru Planetarium, Dr. A. B. Road, W o r l i , M u m b a i 400018 . (Tel No.24964676-80) Extn: 160

Cultural Wing

Kathak Darpan(Annual Summer Camp for Studentsof Kathak Dance) by Pt. Birju Maharaj

26th to 30th May 201410.00 am to 7.00 pmNehru Centre Auditorium

Nehru Centre will pay homage to the memory of late Barrister Rajni Patel, founder member and former General Secretary of t h e C e n t r e , o n h i s 32nd Death Anniversary on 3rd May 2014.

All are requested to join.

Time: 11.00 amVenue: Ground FloorDiscovery of India Building

HOMAGE

contd. on page 2

Dear Subscribers

You are requested to renew your subscription for the year 2014-2015 if not already done, so that the Newsletter can be sent to you without any break.

The cheque should be drawn in favour of Nehru Centre only.

Thanks to the subsribers for their continued co-operation and interest in the Nehru Centre activities.


What Nehru said...

Formation of Maharashra and Gujarat

The proper way to celebrate a good day is to make a good resolution for the future. The resolution which you can make is to carry our country forward at a brisk pace. This is not the occasion to exaggerate our petty quarrels or to get entangled in small problems. We had made resolutions during the struggle for our freedom and the people of India have largely lived up to those resolutions. The problems now before us are no less important. The big struggle which we have to wage lies within ourselves. Every person in India has to fight the battle within himself or herself, against one’s weaknesses. We have to breathe a new spirit into India and create a new atmosphere helpful to our progress.

May 1, 1960

External Affairs, Shipping, Forest

and Environment and Finance, as

well as the Department of Fisheries.

In addition to these are the state

g o v e r n m e n t s , t h e d i s t r i c t

administration, police etc. Needless

to emphasize, the stemming from

factors such as a lack of common

understanding about the threats and

challenges to borders and coasts, the

absence of proper channels of

communication, turf wars, the

absence of information/intelligence

sharing, and most importantly

di f fer ing percept ions among

agencies about their roles and

responsibilities towards border and

coastal security.

Way Forward

While it is a fact that the involvement

of multiple agencies does result in

lack of coordination, accountability

and an integrated approach, it is also

true that no single agency should be

entrusted with the sole responsibility

of security and managing the

country's borders and coasts since it

requires a whole gamut of efforts

ranging from guarding the borders

against transgressions, regulating the

smooth flow - of legitimate trade and

travel, developing the border areas,

and soliciting the cooperation of

neighbouring countries.

Equally, even though national

security is the responsibility of the

Centre, it cannot shoulder the

r e s p o n s i b i l i t y w i t h o u t t h e

cooperation of the states given that

police and public order are state

subjects. Moreover, in this era of

coalition politics, where the central

government is heavily dependent on

regional parties, it can no longer

unilaterally formulate any policy and

force states to implement it.

While it is a fact, that the Centre

cannot deal with internal security

challenges on its own, it is also

equal ly true that the s tates

individually cannot shoulder this

responsibility. Firstly, because any

internal security threat that the

country faces, be it illegal migration,

infiltration or smuggling of arms is

not confined to one particular state

but is spread across various states.

Secondly, most of the challenges are

peculiar to only a few states and do

not effect others. As a result,

individual states will not have an

all-India perspective which would

provide it with a comprehensive

understanding of the problem. And

most importantly, states do not have

the manpower, infrastructure and

resources to deal with internal

security challenges on their own.

Given the nature of challenges as

well as the structure of our federal

polity, a coordinated approach

involving both the centre and the

states is the only way forward for

securing and managing the borders.

In fact, such an effort already exists in

the form of the National Committee

for Strengthening Maritime and

Coastal Security, which was

constituted in August 2009. This

commission is chaired by the Cabinet

Secretary and has representatives

from all the concerned Ministries/

Departments/Organizations in the

Government of India as well as the

Chief Secretaries / Administrators of

the coastal States/Union Territories.

The committee supervises the

implementation of various centrally

sponsored schemes for coastal

security as well as formulates various

policy decisions.

The Centre should envisage

enlarg ing the scope of th is

commission by bringing in the aspect

of land borders as well and

reconstituting it as a high level multi-

a g e n c y B o r d e r M a n a g e m e n t

C o m m i s s i o n w i t h t h e s o l e

responsibility of managing and

securing India's borders and coasts.

This commission should comprise

representatives from all concerned

ministries and agencies, both from

the Centre and the states and should

have the power to make, implement

and monitor plans for border

management. The Commission

should also be mandated to

formulate medium and long term

policies for an integrated border

management approach.

To conclude, most of India's internal

security challenges have deep

linkages across the borders and

therefore border management and

coastal security should be accorded

top priority for a more secure India.

Concluded...

NEHRU PLANETARIUM

SKY SHOWS : ‘Violent Universe’

Timings

12 noon (Hindi) 1:30 pm (Marathi) 3:00 pm (English) 4:30 pm (Hindi)

MONDAY CLOSED


A Special Astrophysics Lecture

A Special Astrophysics Lecture “The Evolving Universe”was delivered by Prof Alexander Boksenberg, Professor of Experimental Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK on 21 February 2014. We bring you here a summary of his talk.

Astronomy is an all-embracing science which gains great strength from global collaboration. Astronomers have many powerful tools of the trade, often established and operated internationally, which have enabled enormous progress in discovery and understanding in recent decades. Ground-based telescopes set on mountain sites far away from bright cities give observations in the near-ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum and radio telescopes of great variety are spread more widely. Telescopes in space extend observations to the gamma ray, X-ray, far-ultraviolet, far-infrared and microwave regions, as well as gaining clarity in the visible and near-infrared from the absence of a turbulent atmosphere.

In modern astronomy, direct imaging of the sky remains a necessary technique for specific identifications and detailed investigation of structure at any scale. The extraordinary images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope are a prime example. Then, by spectrally dispersing the light a great deal of related quantitative physical information is obtained. A simple case is the speed of an object, readily measured from the spectral red-shift or blue-shift relative to a local standard defined by a stationary (from our viewpoint) reference source at the telescope. More analytical is the assessment of the chemical composition and detailed physical state (such as temperature, density, ionization) of a stellar atmosphere, gaseous nebula, galaxy or the intergalactic medium, obtained from the balance of spectral emission and absorption features which can be identified with a wide variety of atomic elements. By combining such analysis with red-shift, very distant objects (seen as they were very long ago when the light left them) can be investigated even from the ground in the normally inaccessible far-ultraviolet region which, as a manifestation of the expanding Universe, has been shifted into the local optical or infrared regions.

The current age of the Universe is known to be close to 14 billion years. Within the observable horizon (defined by the distance light can have travelled to us in that time in the expanding Universe) the initiating “Big Bang” started in a region that was infinitesimally small – smaller than the nucleus of an atom today – and unimaginably dense and hot. This is not to say that the whole Universe was that small – just the back-projected region from the enormously expanded volume we can in principle currently observe. The initiating event was not like an explosion from a spot in space but a uniform expansion of all space. As space expanded it cooled and soon entered a very short period of vastly accelerating inflation, increasing in a tiny fraction of a second to more or less the size of a golf-ball. The latent energy from the quantum field driving the inflation then converted into a hot, seething “soup” of radiation, matter and antimatter annihilating and reforming interchangeably. The expansion then was in a coasting phase, slowing under self-gravity, with the Universe again cooling. Soon the matter and antimatter permanently annihilated into radiation but a slight imbalance between the two left a residue of “matter”, with its particles bubbling in and out of existence. Later, in the earliest minutes of time, only the lightest elements we know today formed as nuclei, dominantly hydrogen and helium with some traces of deuterium and lithium, then becoming largely neutral atoms after about 400 thousand years when space had cooled to near 3000 Kelvin and the co-existing electrons could remain attached to the nuclei.

to be contd...

SATURN

4Nehru Centre Newsletter - May 2014

Of the five planets known to mankind

prior to the discovery of telescope, Saturn

is the last planet. For Romans it was the

god of agriculture. In Hindu mythology

it is Shani, son of Surya (the Sun) and his

wife Chaaya (or shadow). The names

comes from Sanskrit ‘Shanye Kramati

Sah’ or the one who moves slowly, the

planet takes 30 years to make one

rotation round the Sun. Visually and academically rings of the

planet are one of the most interesting and

intriguing feature. Observations of Jupiter by Galileo Galilei

proved to be the turning point in the

history of science. In the month of

January of 1610 when he first observed

Jupiter, Saturn was too close to the sun in the sky. But when he observed the planet after a few months the observations

proved quite perplexing. The planet presented itself as an object consisting of three objects – one big in the middle and

two smaller ones to its either sides. Unlike the moons of Jupiter these smaller ones remained with the planet all the time.

Galileo called them slaves. He recorded his discovery in an anagram, as was the practice then, to claim priority of this discovery. The solution of the

anagram translated to "I have observed the highest (that is farthest) planet tri-form." Two years later the slaves had

vanished and to reappear again some months later. Most observers saw the planet to triplet but some thought that they

saw it as oval in shape. Saturn's appearances remained an enigma for quite some time. Galileo never got to know true

nature of Saturn. With time the telescopes were becoming better and powerful. Dutch mathematician, astronomer and prominent scientist

Christiaan Huygens, in 1659 proposed that the planet has a solid ring around it but not touching the planet anywhere.

And he correctly attributed the periodic disappearance and reappearance of the rings to tilt of Saturn to its orbital plane

and the Earth passing through the plane of the rings. Two centuries later James Clerk Maxwell proved it mathematically that the rings of Saturn cannot be anything other than

collection of particles no larger than a few inches. Today we know that the rings of Saturn are mainly made of water-ice, sand grains and large rocky material found in

comets and asteroids. It is generally believed that Saturn captured a passing comet that broke due to gravitational tidal

force of the planet.

This month the planet is seen in the evening sky almost all through the night. Please do visit the planetarium on Sundays

at 7 p.m. to look at this ringed planet.

5

Cultural Cultural Cultural WingWingWing

Nehru Centre Newsletter - May 2014

Kathak DarpanAn Encounter withPt. Birju Maharaj

The annual SUMMER CAMP for the students of Kathak Dance will be organized from 26th May 2014 to 30th May 2014 between 10.00 am to 7.00 pm.

Pandit Birju Maharaj is one of the greatest maestros, who can communicate to the students even the most intricate things in simple words giving examples from their own environment.

Admission forms are available from the office of the Cultural Wing, Nehru Centre.

26th May to 30th May 201410.00 am to 7.00 pmNehru Centre Auditorium

Entry: For the students of Kathak Dance only via registration.

Yuva Sangeet Nritya MahotsavaReview

Nehru Centre had organized Yuva Sangeet Nritya Mahotsava - A Three Days Festival from 11th - 13th March 2014 at the Nehru Centre Auditorium.

First day, Ms. Bhakti Deshpande presented Kathak Dance .

Second day, Ms. Surashree Joshi and Mr. Mandar Gadgil presented vocal recitals.

On the third day Ms. Pooja Gaitonde and Mr. Shashank Thada presented Ghazal recitals.

The programme was well attended and appreciated by music and dance lovers.

Ms. Sanskriti Chatterjee presented Kuchipudi Dance and

Bhakti DeshpandeMandar Gadgil

Pooja Gaitonde Shashank Thada

Surashree Joshi

Sanskriti Chatterjee

Art GalleryThe

Nehru Centre Newsletter - April 2011 6

SHASHIDHAR LOHAR . B H E E M R A O B A D I G E R . JAGADISH KADUR

Shashidhar has secured A.M. Diploma from Dharwad and G.D.A. from K.E.N. School of Art, Bangalore. His compositions are in etching and woodcut .

Bheemrao received A.M.G.D. from Dharwad and M.V.A. from Hampi. His landscapes are in oils and acrylic.

Jagadish obtained Diploma in Painting from Karnataka. His p a i n t i n g s a r e f i g u r a t i v e compositions in acrylic on canvas.

Tuesday 29th April to Monday 5th May 2014

( AC Gallery)

HOSHNAR KAIKOBAD

Hoshnar has secured G.D.A. in Applied Art from Pune. He has had solo and many group shows in India. His landscapes and figurative compositions are in oils on canvas.

Tuesday 29th April to Monday 5th May 2014

( Circular Gallery)

DEEPALI PARAB . REKHA BHIWANDIKAR . SWATI SHIRSAT . SANDHYA KAVAIYA . NILANGEE MORE

Deepali graduated in Applied Art. Her pantings are in acrylic & terracotta.

Rekha has secured B.F.A. in Fine Arts. Her paintings are on deities in pen & ink and acrylic.

Nehru Centre Newsletter - May 2014

Programmes for May 2014

Swati has received B.F.A. in Applied Arts. Her paintings are in acrylic.

Sandhya has Diploma in Textile Designing. Her paintings are in water colours and acrylic.

Nilangee received B.F.A. in Applied Arts. Her abstract paintings are in acrylic.

Tuesday 6th May to Monday 12th May 2014

( AC Gallery)

DIPTI KAMBLE

Dipti has M.A. degree in Painting from S.N.D.T. Her paintings are in oils and acrylics.


( Circular Gallery)

SUHAS SALUNKE

Suhas rece ived B .F .A. f rom Aurangabad. He does landscapes in water colours and Ajanta Ellora figures in oils.


( AC Gallery)

PREETIMA PANDE

Preetima obtained M.A. in Fine Arts from S.N.D.T., Pune. Her abstract compositions are in oils and acrylics on canvas.


( Circular Gallery)

BALASAHEB ABHANG

Balasaheb has A.T.D. from Sangli, G.D.A. and A.Ed. from Pune. He has had many shows and won awards. His paintings are abstract in oil on canvas.


( AC Gallery)

Deepali Parab

Painting by Suhas Salunke

Painting by Preetima Pande


BHAUSO PATIL

Bhauso has obtained G.D.A. in Painting from Kolhapur. His paintings are in oils & acrylic.


( Circular Gallery)

SAYARAM WAGHMARE

Sayaram has G.D.A. in Painting and Post Diploma in Art Education from Mumbai. His landscapes are in oils.

Tuesday 27th May to Monday 2nd June 2014

( AC Gallery)

SANDEEP BAVACHKAR . MANSINGH JADHAV

Sandeep has received A.T.D. and G.D.A. from Sangli. His paintings are in acrylic on canvas.

Mansingh has also received A.T.D. and G.D.A. from Sangli. His p a i n t i n g s a r e o n i n t e r i o r compositions in acrylic on canvas.

Tuesday 27th May to Monday 2nd June 2014

( AC Gallery)

Talent Defy HandicapArt is an inborn quality and gives its expression of creative skill and imagination through visual medium like painting. Physical handicap is no bar to its expression. This was abundantly proved in the ‘On the Spot Art Contest’ for Handicapped Children organized on the 4th March 2014 as an Nehru Centre Art Gallery’s annual feature.

Eminent artist Shri Mukhtar Ahmed Sardar and Graphic Designer Ms Namrata Anvekar who judged the artworks were highly appreciative of the wonderful artworks produced by the handicapped children.

Painting by Sayaram Waghmare

Painting by Mansingh Jadhav

Handicapped Children at work during ‘On the Spot Art Contest’ held on 4th March 2014

Some of the winning paintings and clay sculptures by the Handicapped Children

Sculpture by Swaranjali Powle

Painting by Omkar Yadav Painting by Habiba ShaikhPainting by Rakhi Mandal Painting by Pramila Rane

Sculpture by Shilpa MishraSculpture by Akanksha Wakade Sculpture by Bhagyashri Ruggi

R. N. I. No. MAHENG/1999/121 MCW/114/2012-2014

FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION ONLY

NEHRU CENTRE PUBLICATIONS

MUMBAI PAST & PRESENT * WITNESS TO HISTORY

* REMEMBERING EINSTEIN *

INDIAN ASTRONOMY A Source Book

EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE: The Planetarium Way

SCIENCE IN INDIA: PAST & PRESENT

DISCOVERY OF INDIA Abridged and illustrated

NEHRU REVISITED

RULE OF LAW IN A FREE SOCIETY

CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN INDIA

Colourful Catalogues for Sale

1. R. K. LAXMAN / 2. MARIO DE MIRANDA

3. G. N. JADHAV / 4. ART HERITAGE OF

MAHARASHTRA

5. HAREN DAS / 6. PROF. P. A. DHOND

7. COLLECTOR'S PRIDE / 8. K. B. KULKARNI

9. VINAYAK S. MASOJI

10. SAMAKALEEN (Contemporary Five Artists)

VINAYAKRAO WAGH * RAJARAM PANVALKAR

KRISHNAJI KETKAR * DATTAJIRAO DALVI

* GOVIND MALADKAR

11. NAGESH B. SABANNAVAR

12. NARAYAN L. SONAVADEKAR

13. "GURU-SHISHYA"

BABA GAJBAR & GANPATRAO WADANGEKAR

14. D. G. KULKARNI (DIZI)

15. MILLENNIUM SHOW

(A Century of Art from Maharashtra)

16. BALAJI TALIM & HARISH TALIM

17. S. L. HALDANKAR & G. S. HALDANKAR

18. VINAYAKRAO P. KARMARKAR

19. GOPALRAO DEUSKAR

ART FUSION

2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011 / 2012 / 2013

SANSKRUTICD ROM : An Aesthetics of Indian Culture

DISCOVERY OF INDIA VCD Version

Set of ten greeting cards Based on Discovery of India Exposition

Set of five assorted gift cards Designed by Handicapped children

Available at:Discovery of India Exposition, Ground Floor, NEHRU CENTRE, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018.

Design & Layout : Imtiaz Kalu

Published for Nehru Centre by Srinivas Krishna Kulkarniat Discovery of India Building, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018. Tel : 2496 4676 Fax : 2497 3827

Printed at M/s Trimurti Enterprises, 229, A/2, Shah & Nahar Industrial Estate, Lower Parel, Mumbai - 400 013. Phone : 8652666981 / 9820280366

Editor : Srinivas Krishna Kulkarni

Photographs : C. M. Karambelkar


LIBRARY

New Resources: E-info packs consisting of annotated bibliographies on:

ØBiographies/Autobiographies - Indian and Foreign Personalities

ØMumbai (Bombay)

ØJawaharlal Nehru’s Foreign Policy

ØTerrorism

Coalition Politics and Congress

A soft copy of each is available on request.

New Arrivals - Books

Sr. No. Title Author

1 The years with Guru Dutt: Sathya SaranAbrar Alvi’s journey

2 Wise and otherwise: A salute to life Sudha Murty

3 Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson

4 Images of Hyderabad Zahid Ali Khan

5 Endangered birds James Lee-Ferguson

6 Birds of prey Ian Newton

7 Common Indian birds: A picture album Salim Ali

8 Trees of the world Graeme Mathews

9 Contemporary Indian art: other realities Yashodhara Dalmia

10 Rising India in the changing Ganganath JhaAsia-Pacific: strategies and Challenges

NEHRU CENTRE LIBRARY

: nehru-centre.org/library.html

: nehrucentrelibrary.blogspot.in

: nehrucen-koha.informindia.co.in

Open on:

Timings: 10 AM TO 6 PM

2nd & 4th Saturday

Monday to Friday,1st & 3rd Saturday

Timings: 10 AM TO 2 PM

Events At a Glance... - Nehru Centre

Documents

Transcript of Events At a Glance... - Nehru Centre