Manipuri Workshop: Yangshak Movement; In continuation

Facilitator: Surjit Nongmeikapam, choreographer and contemporary performing artist

Open to dancers of all classical styles

C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

At 16:00-  AI & Dance: Challenges and Opportunities
Curator; Dr Anita Ratnam, Artpreneur and SNA Awardee

Keynote Speaker: Madhu Nataraj, Director, STEM Dance Kampni, Bangalore

At 18:30 Young Dancers Festival

Odissi Recital

By Vrinda Chadha, New Delhi

At 19:45
Kuchipudi recital

By Avijit Das, Bengaluru

Nature Walk at IIC – Know the Wondrous Trees of IIC

Learn about the varied trees of IIC with Kavita Prakash, tree lover, walk leader and self-taught naturalist.

Exclusively for IIC Members, on a first-come, first-served basis.

To register for the same, please email apo3@iicdelhi.in by 20th April 2026. A confirmation email will soon be shared with you thereafter with additional details of the walk.
 

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The Body as Method: Dance Research and Writing in India
Speaker: Dr Sreenath Nair, University of Lincoln, U.K.
Chair: Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Dr Sreenath Nair is a leading UK academic who earned his PhD from the University of Wales in 2006. His research explores embodied methodologies in Kerala performance, examining corporeal links between medical, martial, spiritual, and performance traditions. He has lectured widely across the USA, UK, Russia, Germany, Prague, Finland, and Sweden, and has held international academic posts and collaborations. He received the Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship and served as Scholar-in-Residence at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Dance research and writing in India have largely relied on Cultural Studies and postcolonial theories to examine questions of identity, representation, and power. While these frameworks offer valuable critical tools, they remain limited in their ability to address embodied and kinaesthetic practices. Grounded in textual and discursive methods, such approaches struggle to engage with tactile experience, rhythm, breath, muscle memory, and the physical intelligence through which the dancing body itself becomes both method and site of knowledge.
 

Nuclear Power in India: Rationale for the SHANTI Act

Speaker: Dr. Ravi B Grover, Member of Atomic Energy Commission, Chairman of the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI).

Chair: Amb. D. B. Venkatesh Verma, Former India’s Ambassador to Spain, Russia, and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

Discussants: Mr. Ramadurai Raghavan, Vice President & Head – Power Business Unit. Tata Consulting Engineers Limited; Dr D K Shukla, Former Chairman, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board; Ajay Shankar, Former Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)

Book Discussion Group 
India’s Strategic Autonomy : A Special Feature

Edited by Pankaj Saran & Raj Kumar Sharma (NatStrat India, 2026)
 

Shyam Saran, President, IIC in conversation with Pankaj Saran, Convenor, Natstrat
 

Discussants: Dr Shamika Ravi, Member PM’s Economic Advisory Council; Amb. Jawed Ashraf, Chairman, ITPO;Vice Admiral S J Singh, DG, USI; Suhasini Haider, Journalist.

Concluding address M.J.Akbar, Author and Former Minister

 

Book Discussion Group

Morning Twilight: Poems
By Jayshree Misra Tripathi (Speaking Tiger, 2026)

Chair: Dr. Amarendra Khatua, Former Diplomat, Author and Poet

Discussants:  Prof Kalyani Dutta, Translator and Academic; Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, Historian, Columnist and Festival Director; Mandira Ghosh, Poet, Author and Researcher and Jayshree Misra Tripathi, Writer, Former Educationist & Author of the book

                         CANCELLED

A Symphony of Discordant Notes: Navigating Evolving Technologies, Copyright Law, and Age-Old Indian Music

Discussants: Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Sr. Counsel, Supreme Court of India; Mr. Ameet Datta, Founder, ADP Law Offices; Neel Mason, Counsel, Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India; Adarsh Ramanujan, Counsel, Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India; others: TBC

Moderator: Saikrishna Rajagopal, Managing Partner, Saikrishna & Associates

This discussion fosters a cross-disciplinary dialogue involving Indian music and legal experts to deconstruct the friction between modern studio practices and the demands of the evolving copyright framework. By examining the journey of a track from creation to commercialisation, the panel will attempt to identify, simplify, and possibly solve for the complexities of copyright law when dealing with the uniqueness and centuries old heritage of Indian music.

(Collaboration: Saikrishna & Associates)


 

Kamalini Samaradhanam
Smt. Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt, a pioneer in intangible heritage archiving, creating the Doordarshan Central Archives and also a reputed dancer, choreographer, guru, scholar, television producer and mentor to many. This programme is a tribute to her enduring legacy on the first anniversary of her passing.

Choreographies mentored by Kamalini Nagarajan Dutt and performed by Guru Sharon Lowen, Hemanta Kumar Kalita, Divya Goswami and Dr. S.Vasudevan of Manasa-Art Without Frontiers Dancers

(Collaboration: Manasa-Art Without Frontiers Dancers)
 

Manipuri Workshop: Yangshak Movement; In continuation
Facilitator: Surjit Nongmeikapam, choreographer and contemporary performing artist

Open to dancers of all classical styles

C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
At 16:15 
The Music & Dance Heritage of Tiruvarur, illustrated Lecture-Demonstration by Dr Nandini Ramani

At 18:30 Young Dancers Festival
Odissi Recital
By Vrinda Chadha, New Delhi

At 19:45
Kuchipudi recital
By Avijit Das, Bengaluru