Radhika Dhumal, an award-winning architect will speak on the eminent woman artist and printmaker, Prof. Rini Dhumal and her personal journey in independent India

Rini Dhumal, prolific artist and printmaker, is a prominent figure in the contemporary art world. She was the recipient of numerous awards, grants and fellowships that propelled her onto the global platform. Prof Rini Dhumal has numerous solo exhibitions to her credit in both India and abroad, and has participated in national and international group exhibitions, workshops and camps. She taught at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda as Professor and Head of the Painting Department, Faculty of Fine Arts.

The Government of India, Ministry of Culture, organized a Retrospective of Rini Dhumal in 2022 at the National Gallery of Modern Art, titled ‘Shakti’.

Radhika Dhumal

Radhika is an architect with a Gold Medal in Design and has an MSc in Architectural Conservation from the Edinburgh College of Art in the UK. She has been awarded fellowship 2012-13 as the “Outstanding Person in the Field of Culture'' by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. 

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/89486188044

Meeting ID: 894 8618 8044

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

Back to Basics through Usable Art

A talk by Allan Schwarz: artist, craftsman, architect and environmental designer. Allan's life work, the Mezimbite Forest Centre, which he founded in Mozambique's Miombo Biome in 1994, is a unique grass-roots forest management system of “Conservation by Design", crafting usable art in the form of high quality and sustainable forest products. Allan is an elected Beautiful Soul Africa Fellow and Ashoka Fellow, and was recently acknowledged in a Penguin publication of the world’s 25 leading “Climate Warriors”.

Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. 

Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series has presented philosophies and practices in India, that show the way forward for architecture to contribute positively to society and to culture. In this, the tenth talk, we see through Allan's work, the manner in which such philosophies and practices are being followed in Africa and at an international level.  

Attendees to the session will find it useful to see this short film on Allan's work, made by Jessica Yu, when she was filming for NatGeo in Mozambique https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXuK8kH9UQ&t=215s

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India’s Economy from Nehru to Modi: A Brief History

By Pulapre Balakrishnan (Permanent Black: 2022)

Discussants: Shri Nitin Desai, Chairman, TERI and former Under Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, UN; Shri T.K. Arun, senior journalist and former Editor, The Economic Times; Prof. Amita Batra, Professor of Economics, Centre for South Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. Pulapre Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University and author of the book

Chair: Prof. Sudipto Mundle, Senior Advisor, NCAER and former Professor Emeritus, NIPFP

Speaker: Amb. Ranjan Mathai, former Foreign Secretary and High Commissioner to U.K.

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

The United Kingdom has seen the fall of two Prime Ministers, Boris Johnson and Lizz Truss, in quick successions. Rishi Sunak, who lost to Truss earlier has now succeeded her. The economy is in trouble, especially after Brexit. The cost-of-living crisis remains to be attended to. The Conservative Part is deeply divided, and the Labor has increased its lead in opinion polls

Why is Calories Theory Unscientific and How Vedic Nutrition has the Solutions to Modern Day Health Problems

Speaker: Dr. Shikha Nehru Sharma, Founder - ONE Health

Chair: Dr Anu Jindal, Artist, Scholar, Arts Administrator

The calorie theory has played a great disservice to human nutrition and health. Dr Shikha Nehru Sharma, as a medical doctor will speak about the flaws in the Calorie Concept and its consequent adverse effect on people. She will elaborate on her search and discovery of solutions in ancient Vedic concepts of nutrition, thus helping people to actualize their highest potential of wellbeing

Dr. Shikha Nehru Sharma, MBBS from Maulana Azad Medical College Delhi is the founder of Nutriwel Health (India) delivering preventive healthcare advisory programs with Ayurvedic Doctors and Nutritionists integrating Modern Nutrition with Vedic Nutrition

(Collaboration: Urmila Foundation)

Manipuri Dance – Duet

By Sovanabrata Sircar and Nutan Sircar from Delhi, disciples of Guru Bipin Singh and Kalavati Devi

AT 19:00
Kuchipudi Recital

By Ayana Mukherjee from Delhi, disciple of Guru Jayarama Rao

The programme juxtaposes 17th century harpsichord music and poetry in several languages (Punjabi, Tamil, English…) with occasional contemporary dance interventions. The pieces for harpsichord and the poetry recall the seasons, joy, melancholy and death. The dance here exists in fragmentary and elusive phrases

Performers:
Harpsichord: Justin McCarthy
Punjabi poetry: Navtej Singh Johar
Dance and Tamil poetry: Abhinaya Penneswaran

Her Voice: Engendering Nuclear Disarmament - Challenges and Possibilities

Welcome by Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC and Director, WISCOMP

Keynote Address: Engendering Disarmament: How Practical, How Possible

To be delivered by Amb. Jayant Prasad, former Ambassador of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva & Member of U.N. Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

Detailed break-up of the sessions

The UNGA Resolution 71/57 of 2016 underscores the importance of disarmament and non-proliferation education. In order to encourage nations to implement the resolution, the UN Secretary General announced a Disarmament Agenda as part of his visionary document “To Secure our World and our Future” in 2018. Interestingly, he not only called upon States to take the lead in educating the larger public on disarmament and bringing new voices to the forefront, but also prioritized gender parity in this context as “a moral duty and an operational necessity”. 

We find ourselves in the midst of a strange dialectic. On one hand, the Treaty on prohibition of nuclear weapons has entered into force and outlaws nuclear weapons, on the other, stressed nuclear dyads, unregulated emergence of new technologies that impact nuclear deterrence, and crumbling arms control architecture, has increased the salience of nuclear weapons. This ‘hurting’ landscape is clearly visible in the ongoing Ukraine Crisis as the risk of use of nuclear weapons looms large.

The symposium is organized in collaboration with Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP)

An exhibition of paintings – mixed medium on canvas by Laitonjam Rajnikanta from Manipur

Inauguration on Thursday 24 November 2022 at 18:30