Dear Member,
Relaying of grass at Rose Garden and the Lawn in front of Main Verandah will be started from 4th of this month. The work is expected to be completed within a month. Both these venues will not be accessible to the Members during this period.
Inconvenience caused is regretted.
Kanwal Wali
Secretary IIC
Work 3.0
By Avik Chanda and Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (Penguin Business: 2023)
Discussant: Dr. Sajjan Singh Yadav, Additional Secretary, Dept. of Expenditure, Min. of Finance, Govt. of India; and Shri Avik Chanda, author, columnist and business Advisor, Founder-CEO, NUVAH & Director, International Literature Festival, CANTO and author of the book
Moderator: Shri Manish Khurana, Senior Commissioning Editor (Business), Penguin Random House India
Speaker: Shri Niraj Kumar who has spent the last seven years translating and writing a new commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra over five volumes, the first of which was published in 2022. A proponent of Pan-Asianism, he has authored Arise, Asia! (2003) and its sequel, Asia in Post-Western Age (2014). He is also a commentator on Sakta Tantra, and the author of Sriyantra and Geophilosophy of India (2014). He was Chief Editor of an encyclopedic work on the Himalayas, Himalayan Bridge (2015)
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
The Kalacakra Tantra is the capsule of Nalanda tradition. It was the last major Buddhist Tantric text written in India during the early 11th century. Though composed in Sanskrit, within a few decades, it influenced the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist clergy. This talk will cover the formative stages and the dynamics in transmission of this Tantra. This talk will cover the formative stages and the dynamics in transmission of this Tantra, and its reception by great political powers during the thousand years of its journey
(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)
WEBINAR
A Woven Life: Jenny Housego, textile historian, designer and entrepreneur in In Conversation with Maya Mirchandani, Associate Professor, Media Studies, Ashoka University and Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Emily Janet Housego, fondly known as Jenny, has helped inspire a generation of Indian craftspeople to raise their weaving skills to new heights of creativity and excellence. During her two decades in India, she has worked diligently with weavers and embroiderers to forge new ways of combining their traditional craftsmanship with contemporary designs. Jenny has revived ancient weaving techniques and simultaneously contributed to the livelihoods of weavers’ families especially in Haryana and Kashmir.
She is the author of Tribal Rugs: An Introduction to the Weaving of the Tribes of Iran, and of Bridal Durries of India. She has co-founded two successful textile brands in India, Shades of India and Kashmir Loom
Maya Mirchandani is an award-winning Indian journalist with interest in Indian foreign policy, South Asia, and identity conflicts, and the co-author of Jenny’s memoirs A Woven Life published by Roli Books in 2020.
(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)
Registration link: https://zoom.us/j/81279191477
Meeting ID: 812 7919 1477
WEBINAR
There was a Girl I Loved Once &
Swayam Se Parichaya
By Pariksith Singh
Discussants: Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet, author and researcher; Ms Mridula Pradhan, poet and author; and Dr. Pariksith Singh, essayist, poet, story- Writer, translator and author of the book
Chair: Shri K. Jayakumar, President, The Poetry Society (India) and former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala
(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)
We, the People of the States of Bharat: The Making and Remaking of India’s Internal Borders
By Sanjeev Chopra (HarperCollins India: 2022)
Discussants: Shri Raghav Chandra, writer and former Secretary, Govt. of India; Shri V. Srinivas, Secretary, Govt. of India, Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances and Department of Pension & Pensioner’s Welfare; Ms Rama Lakshmi, Editor, The Print; and Shri Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie and author of the book
Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)
(40 min; 2023; Hindi with English subtitles)
Produced & Directed by Ruchi Saini who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
The documentary film features conversations with the musicologist and scholar, the late Shri Sushil Kumar Saxena who delineates the finer nuances of North Indian Classical arts through the prism of Kathak dance and is juxtaposed with the works of the late Kathak maestro, Guru Munna Shukla. The film also includes demonstrations by Ruchi Saini
NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST
Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta
Panelists: Amb. V.P. Haran, former Indian Ambassador to Bhutan; Lt. Gen. P.S. Pannu, former Military Operations Branch, Army Headquarters; and Prof. Madhuri Sukhija, Professor, Mata Sundari College, University of Delhi
Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta
The discussion focuses on India-Bhutan relations in light of the recent visit of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to New Delhi. The visit follows the controversy that erupted after an interview granted by the Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering to a Belgian newspaper over a possible resolution of Bhutan China border dispute. The panelists will discuss this and other issues
