Panelists: Amb. Sharat Sabharwal, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan; and Ms Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University

Pakistan is in a crisis, a multidimensional crisis. There is an unstable quadrilateral of forces: the military, the civilian government, former Prime Minister Imran Khan, and the Supreme Court. How will the current ongoing turmoil impact India’s interest including national security? How might USA, China, and others including Saudi Arabia, seek to take care of their concerns?

Free Trade Agreements: India and the World

By V.S. Seshadri (Oxford University Press: 2023)

Discussants: Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh, former Deputy Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO); Dr. Mohan Kumar, Former Ambassador of India to France, Dean, Strategic and International Initiatives & Professor of Diplomatic Practice, O.P. Jindal Global University; Dr. Sanjaya Baru, former Media Advisor to PMO, commentator and policy analyst; and Dr. V.S. Seshadri, former Indian Ambassador to Slovenia and Myanmar, Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

WEBINAR

The Way Ahead

The twelfth and final session in the bi-monthly series on architecture, conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, is centred on a dialogue between several practitioners, teachers, activists and social entrepreneurs. 

They will discuss how we may take forward the key themes that have emerged from earlier sessions, to see how architecture can contribute positively to society and to culture, and enable us to move towards a more equitable and ethical way of building and living.

Introduced by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi 

Moderated by Professor Snehanshu Mukherjee: Architect, Educator and Writer, Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi

Discussants: Professor Neelkanth Chhaya: Architect, Academic, ex-Dean Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad; Adjunct Faculty Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bengaluru; Professor Ashok Lall: Architect, Teacher, Author, Proponent of environmentally and socially sustainable design, Design & Technology Chair at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) Mumbai; Rajat Kapoor: Architect, Practitioner of natural farming, Proponent of sustainable architecture; Rohan Nahar: Architect, Practitioner of Mud-Architecture and Sustainable practices of construction, Faculty at Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil College of Architecture, Pune; Kalyan Akkipedi: Engineer, Social Entrepreneur, Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, Co-creator of Proto-Village, Andhra Pradesh; Professor Vibhuti Sachdev: Architect, Academic, Author, Dean of Architecture & Design and Director of GITAM School of Architecture, Visakhapatnam

Registration link

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwfdfmRpT66UZ9JCTaxwLw

Panelists: Shri Ram Boojh, former Senior Consultant, United Nations Environment Programme; Ms Parul Agarwala, Country Programme Manager, India at UN-Habitat; Shri Bhaskar Padigala, Head, Climate Hub, World Wide Fund for Nature India; and Shri Amit Jain, Senior Energy Specialist, The World Bank

Moderator: Dr. Anindita Sarkar, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Miranda House, University of Delhi

How can COP28 support technology transfer and capacity building in the Global South, including through financing and sharing of best practices and the promotion of south-south cooperation? While global policy frameworks like the Paris Agreement provide a broad framework for action on climate change, local communities and governments often have the most direct experience with the impacts of climate change. Effective adaptation and mitigation policies must therefore take into account local conditions, and be tailored to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of different communities

(Collaboration: The Geostrata; and Miranda House College)

Talk by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa

Moderator: Dr. Anu Jindal

The primordial essence of the mind is beyond limitation, it goes beyond being healthy and unhealthy. Both the body and the mind together define the health of an individual. Therefore it is important to have both a healthy mind as well as a healthy body