An exhibition of photographs by Vijay Jodha

The online exhibition focuses on a contemporary but less noticed facet of public life in Tamil Nadu – art that can be found on the sides of buses crisscrossing the state. The advent of digital printed billboards has spelt the death knell to the careers of Tamil Nadu’s famed hoarding painters. Thankfully their creativity has found a new avenue in the form of murals and public art that has brought life to many old, drab or poorly maintained buildings and in the world of public transport.

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Peacewomen of Northeast India
Speakers: Roshmi Goswami, feminist human rights activist and independent researcher known for her pioneering work on women in conflict situations; Patricia Mukhim, Editor, The Shillong Times; women’s rights activist, she was conferred the Padma Shree in 2000 and also received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding women media person; Pradip Phanjoubam, Editor, Imphal Free Press and author of The Northeast Question: Conflicts and Frontiers

Moderator: Rakhee Kalita Moral, Associate Professor, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam and a recipient of the Nehru Fellowship, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

Northeast India’s geo-political emergence as a postcolonial borderland has been attended by long periods of unrest, rebel movements and militarization both in its immediate past and via its older histories of resistance. The region has come to be inseparable from peace negotiations, mediations and accords on account of protracted conflicts and attempts at their resolutions. ‘Peace’ in India’s northeast remains a contested idea appropriated for various, often disparate ends

(Collaboration: WISCOMP)

The Readers’ Editor: Regaining the Trust 
Introduction: Harish Khare, Chair, The Media Foundation

Panelists: A.S. Panneerselvan, Fellow, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai and former Readers’ Editor, The Hindu; Siddharth Varadarajan, Founder-Editor, The Wire, New Delhi; C. Rammanohar Reddy, Editor, The India Forum, Hyderabad and former Readers’ Editor, scroll.in; and Shailaja Bajpai, Readers’ Editor, The Print, New Delhi

Moderator: Vibodh Parathasarathi, Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

As the media in India adjusts to new commercial and regulatory compulsions, news organisations are adapting to a new environment. One significant move has been the appointment of a Readers’ Editor, most visibly in online news websites. The panel will reflect on the expectations of the role of Readers’ Editor and how the need to engage with readers and reiterate trust are occupying Centre stage in some news platforms

IIC/The Media Foundation Dialogues is a series of conversations featuring prominent voices and highlighting different perspectives, the Dialogues discuss issues challenging the Fourth Estate
 
(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Speakers: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Ms Nancy Sahay, IAS, Additional Secretary, Rural Development, Government of Jharkhand; Prof. Krishna Raj, Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Studies, Bangalore, specialist in Sustainable Development Environmental Economics, Ecological and Resource Economics; and Dr. Shiwani, journalist and Secretary, Society for Empowerment

Moderator: Dr. Sachindra Narayan, well-known anthropologist and Gandhian

Development is a process to bring change in the physical quality of life. Mahatma Gandhi’s vision and his programmes for rural development i.e. cleanliness, social equality, cottage industry and in particular empowering the habitat of rural and tribal India envisages a sustainable growth and development

(Collaboration: Society for Empowerment, Patna)

Mahanadi: The Tale of a River 
By Anita Agnihotri, translated from the original Bengali by Nivedita Sen (Niyogi Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi: 2021)

Moderator: Dr. Uttam Kumar Sinha, Fellow, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, Managing Editor, Strategic Analysis

Discussants: Dr. Debjani Sengupta, Associate Professor of English, Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, translator and author; Prof. Sumanyu Sathpathy, Professor & Head, Dept. of English, University of Delhi; Ms Anita Agnihotri, former civil servant and author of the book; and Dr. Nivedita Sen, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, Hansraj College, University of Delhi

 

The Stranger in the Mirror

By Rakesh Omprakash Mehra (Rupa Publications India: 2021)

Discussants: Shri Pankaj Saxena, filmmaker, Broadcast Consultant, and film academic; and Shri Rakesh Omprakash Mehra, filmmaker and author of the book

Moderator: Shri Amit Khanna, filmmaker, writer, poet and media veteran

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Revisiting IIC Classics
With Chef Vijay Thukral

Venue: Rose Garden
 

From the Land of the Magyars: A Hungarian Dinner
With Chef Sonia Taank, Embassy of Hungary

Venue: Rose Garden

(Collaboration: Liszt Institute – Hungarian Cultural Centre, Delhi)