(Women – An epitome of power and strength)

Talk by Chief Acharya H.H. Swami Avdheshanand Giri

Inauguration by By Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

(Collaboration: Ladli Foundation)

Speakers: Prof. Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Partha Sen, former Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics; Prof. Farzana Afridi, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute and Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (joins from Singapore); Prof. Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr Zakaria Siddiqui, Visiting Fellow, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram (joins from Canberra)

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Is there any reasonable prospect of the Covid pandemic marking a transition from industrial stagnation to industrial revival? Post-Covid the bottom end of the income distribution is struggling. What is the macroeconomic policy framework? In this is there a role for pro-poor growth? Has the allocation for public health and public education increased? What is the state of employment in India? Is India facing a crisis in its labour market? The agricultural sector continues to remain in a neglected catastrophic mess: agriculture’s share in India’s economy is less than 15% but two-thirds of India’s families depend on rural incomes and the majority of India’s poor live in rural areas. Is chronic hunger widespread in India? Do statistics on hunger and food insecurity correctly capture the Indian reality? Why do Indian children continue to suffer from malnutrition? What is the evidence from National Family Health Survey-5?

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies) 

An evening of classical Ragas 

Sitar Recital

By  Dhruv Bedi from Delhi, son and disciple of Shri Jagdeep Singh Bedi and Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee  

Accompanied by Saptak Sharma on tabla 

Followed by

Vocal Recital

By Nirali Kartik from Mumbai, disciple of Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar

Accompanied by Amit Mishra on tabla and Lalit Sisodiya on harmonium 

Energy Efficiency Matters

By Ajay Mathur and Leher V. Thadani (Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation; & Teri Alumni Association: 2022)

Discussants: Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC and former Foreign Secretary of India; Ms Namita Vikas, Founder & Managing Director, Auctus ESG; Shri Ajay Shankar, Distinguished Fellow, TERI and former Secretary, Dept. of Industrial Planning & Policy, Govt. of India; and Dr, Ajau Mathur, Director General, International Solar Alliance and author of the book

Moderator: Shri Amitabh Sinha, Resident Editor, The Indian Express, Pune

S.G. Vasudev will speak on Inner Resonance

Born in Mysore (Karnataka) in 1941, S.G. Vasudev studies at the Government College of Arts, Madras. While still a student, he won the National Award from the All India Lalit Kala Akademi in 1967. He has also received awards from the State Academies of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides the prestigious Rajyotsava Award, Venkatappa Award and Paniker Puraskaram.

Vasudev is a founder-member of the Cholamandal Artists’ Village on the outskirts of Chennai, where he lived and worked till 1988. Vasudev has held solo exhibitions and has participated in several important group exhibitions in India and abroad. Some of the important series of works he has created over the years are Maithuna (Act of Love), Vriksha (Tree of Life), which transformed into Humanscapes and Earthscapes, and a series on the renowned poet A K Ramanujan’s poetry.

Inner Resonance - Return to Sama, his retrospective exhibition was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore and Mumbai, and at the Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai, in 2018-2019.

Vasudev is the founder and managing trustee of Arnawaz Vasudev Charities, a non-profit organisation providing financial assistance to young artists and art-related initiatives since 1989. He has helped in establishing the Visual Art Department at Bangalore University, the National Gallery of Modern Art Bangalore, Ananya Drishya and Art Park. He lives and works in Bangalore.

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/82931393835

Meeting ID: 829 3139 3835

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

“The Constitution of India and Indian Democracy: Have the Legislature, Judiciary and Executive remained true to their Constitutional Mandate?”

By H.E. Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar, Hon’ble Vice President of India

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

The Global Game of Oil Pipelines

By Gulshan Dietl (Routledge Taylor & Francis: 2022)

Discussants: Prof. Sujata Ashwarya, Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies (Middle Eastern), Jamia Millia Islamia; Dr. Sameena hameed, Assistant Professor, Gulf Studies Programme, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Gulshan Dietl, formerly Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of the book

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University

The late landscape artist, Bireswar Sen (1897-1974) centred his creation on portraying the splendour of the Himalayas, although he approached it on a miniature scale. Sen studied under Abanindranath Tagore in Calcutta during the 1920s, where he learned the wash technique. It wasn't until he met the Russian artist Nicholas Roerich in 1932, that he discovered art's enormous ability to connect man with nature. Roerich's Himalayan landscapes were an epiphany. For the rest of his career, Sen strived to achieve harmony while perfecting his highly personal technique.

On display are a selection of original paintings from the collection of Prithviswar Sen and Sarbani Ghosh

Inauguration on Friday, 16 December 2022 at 17:30

On Friday, 16 December 2022 at 18:30 in Seminar Rooms I to III

Small Works, Great Vision: The Art of Bireswar Sen

Illustrated lecture by Prof. B.N. Goswamy, writer, leading art historian and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Panjab University, Chandigarh 

Speaker: Mr. Kedir Awol Omar, Head of Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in New Delhi, India (also covers Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan). He has also headed the ICRC operations in conflict affected areas like Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Palestine, Nepal, Ethiopia and has worked with conflict related issues, humanitarian diplomacy and developing partnerships in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and South Africa

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University and Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi

The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is based on the Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols, its Statutes – and those of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – and the resolutions of the International Conferences of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.

The ICRC is an independent, neutral organisation ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence. It takes action in response to emergencies and at the same time promotes respect for international humanitarian law and its implementation in national law.

Obviously, it follows that humanity facing so many war and conflict situations, is deeply indebted to ICRC