Afghan refugee women’s stories of gender persecution

Launch of Women’s Regional Network Report “India-Afghan Refugee Community Conversations Report – Seeking Security, Asserting Agency” – Rita Manchanda and Ananya Kundu

Opening Remarks: Syeda Hameed, Global Advisory Board Member, Women’s Regional Network

Launch of the Report followed by a panel discussion on 
Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: Hide to be safe or flee

Discussants: Prof. Bilquees Daud, Jindal School of International Affairs; Hamsa Vijayaraghavan, CEO, Migration Asylum Project; and Nitya Ramakrishnan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Moderator: Rita Manchanda, Consultant, Peace & Security in South Asia

(Collaboration: Women’s Regional Network)
 

Programme Details

Great Cases Series Discussion 3

Decoding Defection

Speaker: Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Chair: Dr. Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

Speakers: Shri Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, South Africa and Namibia and former Ambassador to Egypt and Nepal; and Mr. Cedrick Crowley, Acting High Commissioner of South Africa

Discussant: Dr. John Cherian, former Foreign Affairs Editor, Frontline

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Trustee, IIC

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

By Elia Cecino, award-winning young pianist from Italy

The artist will present a programme of works by Frederic Chopin; Franz Liszt; O. Sciortino; and Johannes Brahms

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Dr Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi from Delhi, disciple of Sulochana Brahaspati

 

At 19:00

Kathak Recital

By Sinjini Kulkarni from Delhi, granddaughter and disciple of late Pt.Birju Maharaj.

Sarod Recital

By Mayukh Gangopadhyay from Kolkata, a disciple of Shri Sohom Chatterjee, Dr. Troilee Dutta, and Pandit Abhik Mukherjee.

 

At 19:00

Sattriya Duet Recital

By Dipjyoti Das and  Dipankar Arandhara from Assam ,disciple of Ramkrishna Talukdar, Boby Rani Talukdar and Dolly Rani Talukdar  

 

Unravelling: Poems
By Rachna Joshi (Authorspress: 2024)
 
Discussants: Dr. Rita Malhotra, mathematician, poet, essayist, and translator; Ms Sanjula Sharma, poet, researcher and writer; and Ms Rachna Joshi, poet and reviewer and author of this volume of poems

Chair: Ms Rajni Sekhri Sibal, former Secretary,Govt. of Insia, writer and poet

Speakers: Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE), University of Delhi; Shri Rajendra Ravi, Co-ordinator, People’s Resource Centre; Prof. Shreekant Gupta, former Professor, Delhi School of Economics and IPCC author; Dr. Yogita Shukla, Founder and CEO, addGEO Foundation; Shri T.K. Shah, Member, Green Circle of Delhi; and Col. Anuj Srivastava (Retd.), architect and heritage conservationist
 
Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi and Trustee, IIC
 
The programme will commence with the release of the book edited by Rajendra Ravi, Exploring New Urbanism – Food, Farm and Wastelessness (Bookwell, New Delhi: 2024)
 
The occasion marks the 88th anniversary of Lodhi Garden and the 32nd anniversary of Green Circle of Delhi. NDMC Horticulture Department will present a sapling to each participant, kindly please bring a cloth/jute carry bag
 
(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)