International Booker Prize Winner Daisy Rockwell and acclaimed translator and editor Rahul Soni in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das
 
(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)

The Indentured and their Route : A Relentless Quest for Identity

By Bhaswati Mukherjee( Rupa Publications; 2023)  

Discussants: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC; Amb. Pavan K. Varma, former diplomat and author; Amb. Rakesh Sood, former Diplomat and Distinguished Fellow, CSDR; and Amb. Bhaswati Mukherjee, former diplomat, President, India Habitat Centre and author of the book

Where from, where to, Music my Love?
A non-authoritative provocative exploration by Shankar Barua

Streams of thought with an off-mainstream India tilt will be shared, spanning the cusp of millennia from the past century towards the imponderable future, together with brief illustrative video-clips and possibly even a basic demonstration or two along the way

Shankar Barua, better known as ShankarBaba has been an on-again off-again musician and composer since his teens in the 1970s. The illustrated talk will focus upon the works, associations, and continuum surrounding the 7 CD-Gazettes he produced between 2000-2004 as The Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts (The IDEA), as well as the 10 annual iterations of the three-day Carnival of e-Creativity he curated in 2006-2016 under the banner of a private trust, The AeA; with the first three having each been produced in association with, and in, IIC

Journeys in Watercolour

An exhibition of paintings by Dr. Alok Srivastava

Inauguration on Saturday, 27 January 2024 at 4.00 pm by Shri Justice Ashok Bhushan, Former Judge of Supreme Court of India, Chairperson, NCLAT and Shri K.N. Srivastava, IAS (Retd.) Director, India International Centre

Rajasthani folk songs and dance.
 

By Gokul Choudhary and group from Barmer, Rajasthan

 A group of 15 artists will present a medley of popular folk songs and dances of Rajasthan such as Bhawai dance, Ghoomar dance, Charai dance and Manganiyar folk songs.

(Collaboration: NCZCC, Ministry of Culture)

Welcome by Smt Suman Chopra, General Secretary, Shanti Sahyog
Quiz programme for students of Gandhi Study Circle from colleges of Delhi University
Talk by Guest of Honour: Dr. A. Annamalai, Director, National Gandhi Museum and Library

Seminar from 18:00 to 19:00
Chief Guest: Dr. Karan Singh

Welcome by Dr. Suman Khanna Aggarwal, President, Shanti Sahyog
Screening of a short documentary film on Mahatma Gandhi’s martyrdom

Interactive session with students of Gandhi Study Circle
Talk by Dr. A.K. Merchant, Joint Secretary, Shanti Sahyog and General Secretary, Temple of Understanding India Foundation

(Collaboration: Shanti Sahyog)

The Quest for Modern Assam: A History 1942-2000
 

By Arupjyoti Saikia (Penguin Allen Lane; 2023)           
 
Discussants: Shri Madan Prasad Bezbaruah, former Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India; Ms. Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, senior journalist and writer; and Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati and author of the book
 
Chair: Prof. Srinath Raghavan, Professor of History and International Relations, Ashoka University and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Speaker: Dr. Sumita Banerjea, educator, and a qualified and practising Counsellor who has researched extensively on women criminals in 18th and 19th centuries Bengal
 
Chair: Dr. S. Zaidi

The talk will focus on crimes committed by women, primarily in Bengal in the 18th and 19th centuries. While research material is available on crimes against women, but research on women criminals during this period of Indian history remains largely unexplored. Perhaps the number of crimes committed by women was regarded as inconsequential or psychologically and socially it made people uncomfortable to view the woman as the offender. Police, jail and judicial records, diaries and records of officials, case records by private detectives and district records were used as source material. A cross section of criminal activities was revealed - dacoity, wayside robbery, railway banditry, fraud, killing because of superstition and societal pressures and also for greed and lust and even a serial killer. Anecdotes about these crimes will be shared.

Mixed media works by Sayali Goyal 

Preview on Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 18:30

The exhibition is on view from 24 January to 4 February 2024, 11:00 to 18:00 daily
 

Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

Reading Narrative Panels on the Early Temples of Central India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Aparajita Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interest covers socio-cultural history of sacred landscape and architecture in early India, aspects of religion, religiosity, and art-iconography.

Chair: Prof. Seema Bawa, University of Delhi

This presentation examines the narrative panels sculpted on the early structural temples of Central India built during the period between 4th to 6th centuries of the Common Era. It explores the functional aspects of early temples as vibrant socio-cultural spaces by studying the aesthetic representation of the myth cycles of Vishnu from the temples of Pawaya (Gwalior), Nachna (Panna, Madhya Pradesh), Deogarh, Ramgarh hills (Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh) and Garhwa (Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh) to mention a few.