Ms. Manjusha Patil Kulkarni performing

His Excellency Mr. François Richier, Ms. Minja Yang,
Dr. Vinayshil Gautam, Mr. Umang Hutheesing, Mr. Max Claudet,
Smt. Vijayraj Kumari Mewar and Mrs. Nivritti Kumari Mewar

Day 2 – 14th March 2014,

2nd International Conference on Living Heritage

The day started with the 2nd Session of the International conference, 'Ensuring Livelihood of Heritage Practitioners', chaired by Ms. Moe Chiba, Programme Specialist for Culture, UNESCO New Delhi. Mr. Ram Niwas and Ms. Shweta Rao from Barefoot College made their presentations 'Empowering communities : Barefoor Stories' that was followed by presentations on 'Bring heritage back to people: work of DEF' by Mr. Osama Manzar, Mr. Muzaffar Ahmad Ansari, Mr. Rohit Dhal from Digital Empowerment Foundation and Chanderi Weaver's community; 'Art for Life: making traditional cultural skills a source of livelihood' by Ms. Sayantini Raychaudhuri from Banglanatak.com; 'Ensuring the livelihood of the communities of heritage bearers' by Ms. Yaaminey Mubayi from New Delhi. Shriji attended the session.

Session 2 – Ensuring Livelihood of Heritage Practitioners


Shriji and Mr. Vishnu Mohan Lall at the session

The third session commenced with the presentation 'Holistic Promotion of Living Heritage in Urban Space' chaired by Ms. Minja Yang followed by presentations on 'Living Heritage in Urban Space of Nepal' by Mr. Kai Weise, Chairperson, Planners' Alliance for the Himalayan and Allied Regions; 'Heritage space for communal harmony' by Dr Ravina Aggarwal, Ford Foundation; 'City as places of community rituals' by Dr. Anjoo Upadhyaya, Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, Banaras Hindu University and 'Recognition as Creative Cities: Jaipur and Udaipur' by Dr. Shikha Jain, Director, DRONAH.

Mr. Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar, Trustee, Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation, Udaipur addressed the participants and the concluding session by Ms. Moe Chiba on 'Learning of the Conference'.