India’s Tipping Point: The view from 7 Race Course Road
By S. Narendra (Bloomsbury India: 2023)
 
Discussants: Shri R. Prasannan, Resident Editor, The Week, New Delhi; Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune; and Shri S. Narendra, former Principal Information Officer and concurrently Information Adviser to Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and author of the book
 
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC 

A triveni of Sahitya, Sangeet and Chitra
An exhibition of photographs of paintings of the Virahini Nayika
 
The exhibition will be inaugurated on 6 April 2024 at 18:00 with

Viraha: The Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Longing
Sahitya: Harsha V. Dehejia reads from his book Parul: A Trilogy of Love, Longing and Living
 
Dr. Dehejia is a practicing Physician and Professor of Indic Studies with more than 30 books to his credit
 
Sangeet: Reba Som sings songs of Viraha from Rabindra Sangeet
 
 

Speaker: Prof. H.M. Desarda, Professor Emeritus, MGM University, Aurangabad, former Member, Maharashtra State Planning Board. Prof. Desarda is a well-known researcher, thinker, and writer on the issues of land, water, ecology, employment, and environment

Chair: Prof. Alakh N. Sharma, Director, Institute for Human Development

 
Although the third-largest economy in purchasing power parity, India is besieged by pervasive poverty, chronic malnutrition, and mass deprivation. Although well-endowed with natural resources, India ranks 131 in the Human Development Index among 189 countries, 94th among 107 in the Global Hunger Index. While radical redistribution of land and other means of production is not possible, Prof. Desarda argues for a feasible option through guaranteed employment to create income support for vulnerable people

A Democracy in Retreat: Revisiting the ends of Power
By Ashwani Kumar (Har Anand Publications: 2023)
 
Discussants: Justice Arjan Sikri, eminent jurist and former Judge of the Supreme Court of India; Ms Neerja Chowdhury, journalist, columnist and political commentator; Amb. Pavan K. Varma, diplomat, politician, and author; and Dr. Ashwani Kumar, eminent lawyer, thinker, veteran parliamentarian and former Minister for Law and Justice and author of the book
 
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
 

A commemorative festival of theatre as a tribute to Habib Tanvir
 
Katha Sukavi Suryamalla ki

Written and Directed by Rajendra Panchal
Presented by Ashram Perafin, Kota

A commemorative festival of theatre as a tribute to Habib Tanvir
 
Mohabbat ke Phool

Director: Vinod Kumar
Script: Poorva Bharadwaj
Presented by Raschakra, New Delhi
 

A commemorative festival of theatre as a tribute to Habib Tanvir
 
Organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation, the festival presents three plays as a tribute to Habib Tanvir would have been 100 years of age last September 2023. Two of the plays follow the same path that Habib Tanvir did and the third play enacts the great master’s life and career.

Conceptualised by Dr. Udayan Vajpeyi
 
Kanupriya

Directed by Ratan Thiyam
Script by Dharamveer Bharati
Presented by Chorus Repertory Theatre, Imphal

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
By Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Penguin Random House India: 2024)
 
Discussants: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Datta, historian; Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, former Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Arudra Burra, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; and Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, historian of Indian political thought and author of the book


Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, journalist and author

Coordinator and Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar
 
Panelists: Dr. S.V. Madhu, Director & Professor, Dept. of Endocrinology, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi; Dr. Pramod Tripathi, Founder, Freedom from Diabetes (FFD), Pune; and Dr. Sandeep Aggarwal, Professor of Surgery & Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, AIIMS, New Delhi  and Dr. Raja Ram Mahto, Associate Professor, Dept. of Kayachikitsa, I/C Diabetes and Metabolic Care Unit, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi
 

The session will also include a presentation on the AYUSH Experience
 
Moderator: Prof. S.V. Madhu

An exhibition of paintings by Sipra Dattagupta from Kolkata
 
Bathed in monochromatic colours of ochre and gold, the paintings follow some of the most well-known trails of the city – through high streets, bookshops, pubs and colleges
 
Inauguration by Ms Christina Scott, CMG, Deputy High Commissioner, British High Commission on Tuesday, 2 April 2024 at 18:30