Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal Hinterlands to Raisina Hill 

By Kasturi Ray (Rupa Publications India: 2023)

Speakers: Sh. Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, Author & National Vice President, BJP; Sh. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Journalist, Author & Playwright; Ms. Kasturi Ray, Author of the book

Chair: Amb. Navtej Sarna, Author, Historian & Former Ambassador of India to US 

“There was Once a City by this Name”: Shahjahanabad before 1857

Illustrated lecture by 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)

Chair: Shubham Mishra

The talk will discuss, mainly in the context of cartographic evidence, the city of Shahjahanabad as it was before dramatic changes in the aftermath of the revolt of 1857, and the implications of those changes

WEBINAR

Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

Pictures in Place, Bodies in Motion: South Indian Temple Murals

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Anna Seastrand, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota; author of Body, History, Myth: South Indian Murals, 1550-1800. Her second book, tentatively titled Trees and the Ecologies of Art in South India, reconceives the importance of trees in South Asian art and religious practice in light of their changing social, economic, artistic religious, and environmental ecologies

Chair: Prof. Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University

The talk brings together poetry, paintings, and movement. Dr. Seastrand argues that paintings link literature, legend, and pilgrimage to the somatic experiences of South Indian temple murals. The texts and paintings are dialogical, not copies of one another, but an invitation to speakers, hearers, and viewers to respond to their intertextuality in embodied and multi-sensorial experience.

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_McHsgUsqQqaW-2RIBsoLUg
 

Welcome Address: Shri Suresh K. Goel, former Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations

Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, President, IC Centre for Governance

Keynote Address: Shri Arun Maira, former Member, Planning Commission

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)
 

An exhibition of paintings –watercolours, acrylic, and oil on canvas by Parul Bhagat

Inauguration on Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 18:30 by Padma Shri Biman B. Das, Chairman of AIFACS

Author, Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Ajeet Cour and celebrated artist, Arpana Caur in conversation with Sujata Prasad and Oroon Das 

(Collaboration: Ahad Anhad)

In Conversation 

Khalid Jawed, well-known Urdu writer in conversation with Udayan Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Vaigyanik Vichar Dweepon ke Beech Samajik Kavya pulon Ka Nirman

By Purnendu Ghosh (Bodhi Publishers: 2023)

Discussants: Dr Manoj Patairiya, Former Head and Adviser, NCSTC, Department of Science and Technology, GoI & President Indian Science Writer's Association ;  Ms Swati Meherishi, Executive Director, Springer Nature ; Prof Indranil Manna, President, India National Academy of Engineering & Vice Chancellor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra,Ranchi; Prof Purnendu Ghosh, Executive Director, Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur & Author of the Book   
     
  
    
    

The Morality of India’s Constitution: The Path Still to be Traversed 

Panelists: Dr. Syeda Hameed, social and women's rights activist, educationist, writer and a former member of the Planning Commission of India; Prof. Ashis Nandy, public intellectual, political psychologist and social theorist; Dr. Neera Chandoke, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Equity Studies, Delhi and former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi; Shri Kapil Sibal, MP, former Union Minister and senior Advocate; and Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, essayist, literary-cultural critic, cultural and arts administrator

Chair: Shri Harsh Mander

First discussion in a new series organised in collaboration with Centre for Equity Studies

Data Debates: CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey

Speaker: Shri Mahesh Vyas, CEO/Managing Director, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy

Discussants: Shri N.K. Sharma, Retd Director General, Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation (MoSPI); and Shri Sanjay Kumar, Retd. Additional Director General, MoSPI

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain,  former Union Agriculture Secretary