THE WORKING OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION: STORIES AND SCHOLARSHIP
Great Cases Series Discussion 2
The Group of Companies Case
Speaker: Hon’ble Justice Sanjib Banerjee, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Meghalaya
Discussant: Varsha Banta, Research Fellow, Corporate Law and Financial Regulation
Chair: Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)
Whispers of Hope: Insights from India’s Project Cheetah
Speaker: Dr. Amit Mallick, Inspector General, National Tiger Conservation Authority
Moderator: Dr. Asani Bhaduri, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Computational Biology, Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi
It has been a year and half since the first batch of Cheetahs were introduced in India in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. These cheetahs represent a big feather in India’s cap for restoring natural treasures. Dr. Amit Mallick was intricately involved with the Project since its inception and will speak about the successful Cheetah Reintroduction in India
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia and the Unending War
By Kallol Bhattacherjee (Harper Collins: 2017)
Discussants: Amb. Vivek Katju, former Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs; Amb. Rajiv Dogra, former Consul General of India in Karachi and author; and Shri Kallol Bhattacherjee, Senior Assistant Editor, Foreign Affairs, The Hindu and author of the book
Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune
India’s Roots and Routes
Illustrated lecture by Raghvendra Singh, former Secretary, Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of Culture; former Director General, National Archives of India, National Library and the National Museum and the CEO, Development of Museums and Cultural Spaces, Govt. of India and curator of the exhibition “India’s Roots and Routes” currently on display at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Chair: Dr. William Dalrymple, Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Global Warming and Climate Change
A roundtable discussion
Opening Remarks: Shri M.C. Gupta
Keynote Speaker: Shri Ashok Lavasa
Chief Guest: Dr. Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI
Panelists: Prof. N. Janardhan Raju, Dean, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri V.K. Modi, Chairman, Modi Group; Shri Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration; Shri Ravi Singh, Secretary General, World Wide Fund for Nature-India; and Dr. Bharat Gopal, Director and Head of Pulmonology, Delhi Heart & Lung Institute
(Collaboration: Global Socio-Economic Foundation)
Calming the Mind: The Joy of Living – Level One
A Retreat with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Welcome Address: Shri Arun Kapur, Director, Centre for Escalation of Peace
The retreat will be led by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, who possesses a rare ability to present the ancient Indian and Tibetan wisdom in a fresh, engaging manner. Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. From childhood, he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey.
The Retreat will be conducted in hybrid mode. Due to limited seats, we would request you to kindly please register in advance should you wish to attend the retreat. The link for registration is given below:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsNIhgdRQxu3En5zSixKPtvwb1rQQ…
More information on the Retreat can be accessed on:
https://www.cepeace.org
(Collaboration: Centre for the Escalation of Peace; Tergar Nalanda Foundation; and with the support of Pallavan Learning Systems; and Ritinjali)