Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Polarisation and the Growing Crisis of the Congress Party (2009-19) 
By Zoya Hasan (OUP Oxford: 2022)
 
Discussants: Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar, politician, former career diplomat and author; Dr. Harish Khare, former Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of India and former Editor-in-Chief, Tribune; Dr. Rahul Verma, Fellow, Centre for Policy Research and Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Dr. Zoya Hasan, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of the book
 
Moderator: Shri Bharat Bhushan, senior journalist
 

Nepal General Elections 2022 and India-Nepal Relations

Speaker: Sanjay Upadhya, Nepali author and analyst based in USA who has worked for the BBC, the Times of London, Inter Press Service, Khaleej Times and the United Nations. His latest book is Empowered and Imperiled: Nepal’s Peace Puzzle in Bits and Pieces (Kathmandu: FinePrint Books, 2022)

Chair: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Ambassador and Special Envoy, Government of India

Party manifestos in the run-up to the 20 November 2022 parliamentary elections in Nepal have highlighted the urgency of maintaining a balanced relationship with the country’s two giant neighbours, India and China. Nepal-India relations have always been entwined with the country’s domestic electoral politics. This time, China’s motives and intentions in Nepal are also being sharply scrutinised. More broadly, Kathmandu and New Delhi will have to navigate long-standing issues such as borders, sharing of water resources, and the plight of the madhesis. This challenge would be all the more pressing amid the general Nepali grumbles of India’s ‘big brotherliness’ and India’s perceptions of tepid Nepali sensitivity to New Delhi’s security concerns

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Opening Remarks by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC and Dr. Renu Swarup     

Grass Root Innovations: Prof Anil Gupta                                                                          

Lead Presentations by Chairman, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI); and Dr. Vipin Kumar, Director and Chief Innovation Officer, National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF)

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Division Director, CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT); Shri Manoj Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO, Social Alpha; Dr. Sanjay Saxena, Executive Director and Public Information Officer; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS); Dr. Mrutyunjay Suar, Director General R & D and Innovation, KIIT University; and Dr. Shipra, IIT-Delhi

Moderator: Dr. Swati Basu

Innovators Success Story

Presentations by Grassroot Innovators                             

Moderator: Dr. Anamika Dey      

Opening Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

The Innovation Landscape: Dr. Renu Swarup

Lead Presentation: Dr. Shiv Sarin, Senior Professor, Vice Chancellor, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO, cCamp; Ms Padmaja Ruparel, Co-Founder Indian Angel Network & Founding Partner of IAN Fund; Dr. Jitendra Sharma, Managing Director & CEO Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ); Dr. Radha Rangarajan, Director, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute; Dr. Kiran Sharma, Senior Director, Sustainable Agriculture at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and formerly with ICRISAT

Moderator: Dr. Renu Swarup

Panel discussion on Innvovators Success Story

Panelists: Dr. Arun Chandru, Co-Founder Pandorum Technologies; Shri Aditya Kadambi, Co-Founder, Mocxa Health Private Ltd., Bengaluru; Dr. Vanita Prasad, Chief Technology Officer, Revy Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd.; and Dr. Renuka Diwan, Co-Founder, BioPrime AgriSolutions

Moderator: Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO cCAMP

Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam

By Mitul Baruah (Routledge Taylor & Francis: 2022)

Discussants: Shri Sanjoy Hazarika, writer, columnist and Human Rights activist; Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati; Prof. Rajeswari Raina, Professor, Dept. of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University; and Dr. Mitul Baruah, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Ashoka University and author of the book

Moderator: Dr. Swargajyoti Gohain, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University

Coordinated by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta

 ‘The Question of Context in Text in Modern Indian Literature’

10.00 am to 10.30 am: Inaugural Session

Opening Remarks: Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Introducing the Session: Sukrita Paul Kumar, Literary Critic and former Aruna Asaf Ali Chair, University of Delhi

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Organised by the IIC-International Research Division in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi

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