Regimes of Hatred, Regimes of Conviviality
 

Speaker: Prof. Ashis Nandy, public intellectual, political psychologist and social theorist
Introduction by Programme Director, South African High Commission,  Cedrick C. Crowley, Deputy High Commissioner of South Africa
Opening remarks: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
Closing remarks: H.E. Mr. Joel Sibusiso Ndebele, High Commissioner of South Africa
The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture was instituted at IIC in 2018 to mark the Centenary of Madiba

(Collaboration: South African High Commission; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s 105th Birthday

AT GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA: 10:30 TO 11:00
Commemoration Service
Songs by School Choirs from Delhi NCR

AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM: 11:15 TO 12:15
Mandela Katha Mala

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom 
 
Message from the UN Secretary General António Guterres to be read by Mr. Darrin Farrant, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan

Speakers: H.E. Mr. Joel Sisubiso Ndebele, High Commissioner of South Africa; Prof. Ashis Nandy, Political psychologist and social theorist; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Interactive session with students of schools from Delhi NCR

Foyer outside the Auditorium
Madiba and His Struggle
An exhibition of paintings by students of Bluebells School International 

Organised as part of Taking Gandhi to Children series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Baradari; United Nations Information Centre; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Speaker: Anurag Seth, Principal AI/ML Advisor at Amazon AWS. He has more than 25 years of experience in technology and entrepreneurship across semiconductor chip design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), building and deploying state of the art AI (artificial intelligence) /ML (Machine Learning) models and applications across various industries. He is also the India Design Centre Head for Kawasaki Microelectronics, Senior R & D Director at Cadence Design Systems and Motorola

Chair: Apar Gupta, Founder Director, Internet Freedom Foundation

ChatGPT and similar “Large Language Models (LLM)” have taken the world by storm and surprised even some of its inventors on its capability to generate human like text across multiple domains including generation of software code and pin pointing security vulnerabilities in the software which many industry standard tools missed detecting! This talk introduces the core concept of Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and walks through the potential impact it is going to create and challenges there-in - from re-skilling needs to “responsible” AI!
 

Decoding and Delivering Public Health
 

Speaker: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). He is the
past President PHFI and formerly Head, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

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

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Love, Loss and Lyric in Urdu Poetry

Speaker: Shri Saeed Naqvi

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Mortuary Practices of the Harappans with special Reference to the North West region of India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Satarupa Bal, Assistant Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India who is presently part of the excavation team at the site of Purana Qila archaeological mound

A comprehensive study of the funerary practices followed by the Harappans in the north western region of India emphasizing on specific markers, so as to determine a pattern or variation in these practices and an indication to the probable societal way of life in the different periods of Harappan habitation in the specific region under study 

Screening of a film, followed by recitation
 

Film - Rumi in the Land of Khusrau
(26 min; 2001; English)
A film by Muzaffar Ali who will introduce the film
Produced by Ministry of External Affairs

Followed by
Recitations of Rumi in Farsi and English
By Muzaffar Ali who will recite the original poems and his own English translations

Interpreted in Dance

By Shivani Varma

Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2022 – Spring 2023 Special Issue

Edited by K. Srinath Reddy and Omita Goyal

To be released by Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman, IIC Editorial Board

Followed by panel discussion

panellists: 

Dr. Atul Kotwal

Dr. Sandhya Venkateswaran

Prof. Rajib Dasgupta

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy

People’s health is the best investment India can make as we move towards our future. This statement lies at the crux of all the contributions in this volume. The government has introduced programmes and policies for the development of the health sector; however, the majority still have unequal access to health facilities. This volume attempts to untangle the complexities in our public health system  by examining several  challenges such as tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases, mental health disorders, road traffic accidents, and importantly, financing, among others. 

Kathak Recital
By Minu Garu from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Krishan Mohan Maharaj

AT 19:00
Kuchipudi Recital
By Meenakshi Aishwarya from Coimbatore, disciple of Guru Smt Sreelakshmy Govardhan

China and the Emergence of a Global Small Hydropower Network, ca 1980s

Speaker: Dr. Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. A historian of modern China, his interests include social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, environmental history, and transnational history. Ghosh is the author of Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton, 2020)

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

This talk explores China’s role in emerging global small hydropower networks of the late 1970s and 1980s. Starting early in the decade, Chinese small hydropower expertise and technology traveled across the Global South, and even made its way to the United States. China also came to play an increasingly central role in a host of ambitious international hydropower conferences – in places like Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Hangzhou. The talk will trace and contextualize this story, unpacking in the process how Chinese expertise was exported abroad and how it came to serve as a benchmark for global small hydropower projects

First lecture in a new bi-monthly series focusing on contemporary China

(Collaboration: Centre for Chinese Studies, Ashoka University; and NYU Shanghai)