The conference will address the question of how people from different cultures and with different values both within a country and across countries can coexist and live together peacefully and productively.

Twelve speakers - critics, art historians, philosophers, political thinkers etc. - together with six visual artists, from many different parts of the world, will address this problem of multiple cultures in a globalizing world. As many as a hundred other persons from all over India, many from its art world, have also been invited and will participate as observers.