Speaker: Professor Dr. Judith Becker, Chair, Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity, Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University, Berlin

Chair: Dr. Swapna Liddle

When German-speaking missionaries came to India in 1834, they travelled with backpacks full of presumptions and inherited values that they intended to transfer to Indian people. Very quickly, they had to learn that life and people in India were quite different from what they had assumed. The talk asks how their values and imaginations were altered due to this experience. Furthermore, the representations of the values changed when the missionaries ascribed certain values to Indians and depicted converts as "model Christians". The talk will describe this history while asking how best to write a history of Christian missions.   

(Collaboration: The History Collective)

Phantom Lovers: Two Novellas
by Achala Moulik

Speakers :  Amb TCA Raghavan, Former High Commissioner to Pakistan & Singapore and Former DG, ICWA; Dr Nirmal Bhattacharjee, Editorial Director, Niyogi Books; Ms Joyeeta Basu, Journalist & Editor, Sunday Guardian and Ms Achala Moulik, Former Education Secretary, GoI , Former DG, ASI & Author of the Book

Chair:  Shri K N Shrivastava, Director, IIC     

Climate Change and the Future of Food
Exhibition: Climate and Food through the Eyes of Women and Children 
Venue: Gandhi-King Plaza

Panel on Climate Change and the Future of Food
Welcome and about Bhoomi: Smt Maya Goburdhun
Background and Moderation: Dr. Vandana Shiva, Managing Trustee, Navdanya

President’s remarks: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Keynote Address: Climate Change in Bangladesh
By Saber Chowdhury, Special Envoy on Climate Change, Bangladesh

Growing Life-Maximising Photosynthesis to Regenerate Farming, the Environment, and our Climate
Speaker: Andre Leu, farmer and scientist, Australia

Addictive Ultra-processed/Junk food Products: The Health Risks
Speaker: Dr. Arun Gupta, IBFAN

Women’s Knowledge, Food and Climate
Speaker: Dr. Mira Shiva, MD

Closing Address: Human Health and Nutrition in the Era of Climate Change
By Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

At 18:30
Cultural Evening
With Vidya Rao

(Collaboration: Navdanya)

sadho dekho jag baurana

Celebrated classical musician and vocalist, Pt. Madhup Mudgal in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)

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Cultural programme to be presented by school students

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya  International Trust, New Delhi Chapter)
 

Illustrated lecture by Sumanjit Chaudhry who has had a distinguished career in the corporate sector and was formerly, President, The Oxford and Cambridge Society of India 

Chair: Ravi Bhoothalingam

The talk will trace the development and growth of Van Gogh as an artist and a painter through the very intimate 902 letters that Vincent wrote to his brother Theo who provided both emotional and financial support to the artist throughout his life. It will cover his early life, forays into peasant painting and his admiration for the Barbizon school of art, his struggles to master drawing and painting, his interaction with the early impressionists in Paris and the astounding effect that this had on his painting style, his fascination with Japanese art and its influence on his work, his move to Arles in France and his bursting forth with his own very colourful style and his interactions with other impressionist painters.  
 

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Catching up with China: Fixing Asymmetries, Creating Equalisers

Panelists: Shri Manish Tewari, Member of Parliament, Congress Party; Ashok K. Kantha, former Indian Ambassador to China; Shri Pravin Sawhney, Roving Editor, FORCE; and Mr. Tenzing Dhamdul, Research Associate, Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta