Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture Series on Exploring Indian Himalaya
The 1st Sujal Mukherjee Memorial Lecture will be held on the evening of Saturday,8th March, 2014. The venue is Rotary Sadan, Kolkata. The theme of this lecture series in its first year is 'Exploring the Indian Himalaya'. The duration of the evenings programmes will be from 5.45 pm to 8.30 pm. The first speaker this evening will be the distinguished mountaineer, explorer & author Sri Harish Kapadia.( http://www.harishkapadia.com/ ) Sri Kapadia will be speaking on " Exploration of all the major valleys of Arunachal Pradesh in the last 15 years". " Arunachal Forever"- The talk covers its turbulent history of the war with China, McMahon Line saga, people and ancient pilgrim trails, historical explorations, high unclimbed peaks , trails to Burma via Chaukan Pass and Pangsu pass, flying the Burma Hump and Lake of No Return, Second World War in Burma and Arunachal Pradesh, and the Journey and exploration of the Brahmaputra river. Talk is