Simple rules for good living - our cities and their future 

A talk by Professor Ashok Lall, architect, teacher, author, and active proponent of environmentally sustainable and socially responsible design - in his architectural practice as well as in the development of academic curricula, teaching methods, and urban strategies. Professor Lall was chair of the Jury for the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction, Asia Pacific Region, and is presently Design & Technology Chair at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture (KRVIA) Mumbai.

The talk will be 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 presents philosophies and practices that show the way forward for architecture to contribute positively to society and to culture. 

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Ecosystem People, Biosphere People, Ecological Refugees

Speaker: Prof. Madhav Gadgil, well known scholar who has taught at the Indian Institute of Science, Harvard University, Stanford University and University of California

Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development

One may assign people to three broad categories from an ecological perspective. Ecosystem people meet the bulk of their resource requirements from a limited area near their habitation through gathering or low-input agriculture and animal husbandry. Biosphere people enjoy access to resources garnered from the entire biosphere and made available through markets, while ecological refugees are people that have lost access to their traditional base of natural resources yet have very limited access to resources through markets. In India today the ever-growing pressure of biosphere people is converting an increasingly large proportion of ecosystem people into ecological refugees

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development; Anthropological Survey of India; and SAGE Publications)

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“May I speak to Professor Panini, please?” Discovering the Algorithm for Rule Conflict Resolution in the  Aṣṭādhyāyī

Speaker: Dr. Rishi Rajpopat,   University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Chair:  Dr. Oscar Pujol, Director, Cervantes Institute, New Delhi

Organised by IIC-International Research Division with the support of Ministry of External Affairs

Prof. Ashoke Chatterjee, author and design educator will speak on Contemporary Legacies: Remembering modern India’s Craft Pioneers

Ashoke Chatterjee has a background in the engineering industry, international civil service, India Tourism Development Corporation, and 25 years in the service of the National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) where he was Executive Director, Senior Faculty, Distinguished Fellow and Professor of communication and management.

Prof Chatterjee has served a range of development institutions in India and overseas, particularly in the sectors of drinking water, sanitation, disability, livelihoods and education as well as working with artisans in many parts of the country. He was Hon President of the Crafts Council of India for over twenty years and continues to serve CCI.

An author and writer, his books include “Dances of the Golden Hall” on the art of Shanta Rao and “Rising” on empowerment efforts among deprived communities in rural Gujarat.

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

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Speaker: Dr. Swapna Liddle, author and historian with specialization in the history of Delhi. Closely involved in the movement to preserve heritage monuments and sites. Dr. Liddle is associated with the Delhi Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH). She is the author of Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi (2017); Connaught Place and the Making of New Delhi (2018); and recently, The Broken Script: Delhi Under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty, 1803-1857 (2022)

Chair: Prof. Partho Datta, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The cataclysmic events of 1857 had a profound impact on Delhi. The revolt and its brutal suppression also changed the way later generations would assess the culture of the period before 1857. To that extent 1857 is a prism that distorts the view of the preceding half-century. Based on the research in her recent book - The Broken Script: Delhi under the East India Company and the Fall of the Mughal Dynasty, 1803 - 1857, Swapna Liddle discusses the role of 1857 as a distorting lens, and how we can look behind it to reassess what Delhi was really like under the British East India Company and the last two Mughal emperors.

Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal?

By Kishan S. Rana (Routledge Taylor & Francis: 2022)

Discussants: Amb. M.K. Rasgotra, former Foreign Secretary of India; Prof. Pallavi Raghavan, historian, International Affairs Scholar and Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Amb. Kishan Rana, former Ambassador of India, Emeritus Professor, DIPLO Foundation, Geneva and Malta, and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Private and Controversial  When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India

Edited by Smriti Parsheera (HarperCollins India: 2023)

 Speakers:  Virnda Bhandari, lawyer, Supreme Court of India;  Ms Yamini Aiyar, President, Centre for Policy Research ;  Ms Usha Ramanathan, Legal Scholar ;  Ms Smriti Parsheera, Fellow, CyberBRICS Project & Author of the Book

Moderator: Shri Nikhil Pahwa, Founder, Medianama