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The Fort at Bhatinda: From a Desert Outpost to an Inner City Landmark

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Vikas Rathee who teaches History at Central University of Punjab, Ghudda (distt. Bhatinda)

Chair: Prof. Yogesh Snehi

Architecturally and strategically, the Bathinda Fort is unremarkable. However, as an ASI protected site located in the centre of the crowded Old City of Bathinda, the Fort has acquired a new kind of life of its own over the last century or so. The transition of Bathinda Fort from a symbol of governance and authority in the region to a space accessible by the citizenry and public for spiritual and leisure purposes. The presentation documents this transition and showcases the relationship that various stakeholders of the Bathinda Fort have with each other and with the site.

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Digital Equity: Empowering the marginalized and underprivileged through Aadhaar, Aayushman Bharat, Government eMarketplace, and other Digital Platforms

Panelists: Shri Ram Sewak Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority (Ayushman Bharat Yojna); Shri Talleen Kumar, Member (Finance), Space Commission, Atomic Energy Commission and Earth Commission and formerly CEO, the Government eMarketplace (GeM); and  Dr. Saurabh Garg, CEO, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) 
Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava

The JAM Trinity is the foundation of Digital India and is the Government of India’s initiative to link Jan Dhan Account, Mobile Numbers and Aadhaar card for financial inclusion. Aadhaar provides a digital identity that is unique, lifelong, online and authenticable. Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) is a payment app that lets one make simple, easy and quick transactions using Unified Payments Interface (UPI). The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) aims to develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital healthcare ecosystems. The Government eMarketplace is the National Public Procurement Platform for ensuring transparency, inclusion and cost-savings in public procurement besides encouraging domestic manufacturing and investment. GeM provides an ever increasing market access to MSMEs, Woman SHGs and Start-ups. GeM-SAHAY is an app based platform providing frictionless working capital financing solutions to MSMEs in a few minutes in real time. The fundamental requirements of scalability, speed, inclusion, interoperability, frugality and technical robustness are the key success factors for all these digital products and platforms

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Hindustani Classical Recital

By Ustad Jainul Abedin from Kolkata, disciple of Ustad Latafat Hussain Khan, Pt. Vijay Kichlu and Pt. Sunil Bose

Accompanied by Bibhash Sanghai (tabla) and Dr. Vinay Mishra (harmonium)

(Collaboration: Sanskriti Foundation)

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Speaker: Prof. V. Suryanarayan, former Director, Centre for South and South East Asian Studies, University of Madras, Chennai. He is one of India's leading specialists in South and Southeast Asian Studies and combines in his teaching and research specialization in history, political science and international relations

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian

The crisis in Sri Lanka that began with peaceful demonstrations demanding the resignation of the Rajapaksa government, following the widespread shortages of food, fuel, medicine, and other daily necessities, has turned violent. Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapaksa has resigned and fled to an unknown destination for safety. His brother the President has refused to resign. What are the prospects of an early end to the crisis?

India has already provided assistance worth $3.5 billion this year only.  Can India do anything to assist its neighbour to put down the raging fire?

Professor V. Suryanarayan, a well-known scholar studying Sri Lanka and Indo-Sri Lanka relations for decades, will explain to us the origins of the crisis and much more. 

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Hindustani Flute Recital
By Sameer Rao from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Pandit Veerabhadriah Hiremath and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia

Accompanied by Adarsh Shenoy on tabla

AT 19:00
Kathak Recital
By Rachana Yadava from Gurugram, disciple of Guru Aditi Mangaldas and Pt. Jaikishan Maharaj

Accompanists: Mahaveer Gangani (pakhawaj); Samiullah Khan (vocals & harmonium); Mohd. Ayyub (sarangi); Kiran Kumar (flute); and Yogesh Gangani (tabla)
 

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Eye of the Canary (El ojo del canario/Cuba)
(120 min; 2010; Spanish with English subtitles)
Director: Fernando Pérez Valdés

Recipient of the Award for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography, Ibero-American Film Festival, Spain 2010; Second Audience Award for Best Film, Lima Film Festival, Peru 2010; Silver Ariel for Best Ibero-American Film, Ariel Awards, Mexico 2011; and ACE Award for Best Director, Association of Entertainment Writers of New York, 2013

Film on Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. Focusing on the childhood and adolescence of Cuba’s nineteenth-century hero, the film covers the period he lived in Cuba before being sent into exile for political sedition at the age of seventeen.  

(Collaboration: Embassy of Cuba)

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Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

Edited by Narendar Pani (Routledge India:2021)

Discussants: Shri Amarjeet Sinha, former Advisor, PMO and Member of the Public Enterprises Selection Board; Shri Siraj Hussain, former Secretary Agriculture and Senior Fellow, ICRIER; Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal Global Law School, Vice Dean and Executive Director, Centre for the Study of Knowledge Systems, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and Prof. Narendar Pani, Professor and Dean, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru and Editor of the book

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

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An exhibition of paintings in water colour, oil, gouache and acrylic by Astrid Kiehn from Germany

Painted directly at different locations in Himachal Pradesh, the artist has captured the changing colours and moods of the monsoon skies, mountains and terrain with a few works related to Pahari art

ABOUT THE ARTIST AND EXHIBITION

Preview on Wednesday, 18 May 2022 at 18:30

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Preserving the Last Frontier – Antarctica

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC, and former Foreign Secretary of India

Lead Talk on Keeping pace in contemporary Antarctic science under the changing geopolitical scenario: Dr. Rasik Ravindra, Polar scientist, former Director, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa 

Panelists: Dr. Thamban Meloth, Scientist G, Group Director, Polar Sciences, National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa on Antarctica and Climate Change; Ms Sulagna Chattopadhyay, Editor-in-Chief, Geography and You, New Delhi on Future of Antarctica in a Changing World; Prof Sanjay Chaturvedi, Professor and Chairperson, Dept. of International Relations, South Asian University on Antarctic Geopolitics, Legal Status; and Prof. Anindya Sinha, Professor and Head, Academics, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru on Coping with Climate Change: Demographic history, population structure and conversation biology of penguins in Antarctica  

The panel discussion will focus on the scientific, political, environmental, and judicial issues involved in protecting Antarctica.