Gilded Cage: Years that Made and Unmade Kashmir

By Sandeep Bamzai (New Delhi: Rupa Publications India, 2023)

Discussants: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Shri Salman Khurshid, former Foreign Minister, and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Lt. Gen. Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.), PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM and former General Officer Commanding, 15 Corps (Srinagar) & Military Secretary; Shri Haseeb Drabu, Economist and former Finance Minister, Jammu & Kashmir; and Shri Sandeep Bamzai, Senior journalist and author of the book

Presentations by Dr. Suman Khanna Aggarwal, former Professor, University of Delhi and Founder & President, Shanti Sahyog Centre for Nonviolence; Dr. A.K. Merchant; Prof. Prashant Chauhan; Fr. John Chathanatt; Prof. Ashis Nandy; Prof. Bulbul Dhar James; and Prof. Manindra Nath Thakur
 

(Collaboration: Shanti Sahyog Centre for Nonviolence)

Panelists: Amb. Mohan Kumar, Professor and Dean, International Affairs and Global Initiatives, O.P. Jindal University; Dr. Sanjaya Baru, economist, author and former Adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; and Prof. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute

Chair: Amb. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, former Indian Ambassador to Japan

As the combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine sharpen the challenges facing developing nations, India and Japan have become unlikely partners in addressing the concerns of the Global South. This panel discussion will explore the possible ways in which India, as the Chair of this year’s G-20 summit and Japan as the host for the annual G-7 summit in Hiroshima this year, collaborate in mitigating the expansive threats facing the Global South

(Collaboration: Asia Society Policy Institute) 
 

Speaker: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, historian of modern Russian and European History and formerly Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Visiting Professor in Imperial Russian History, University of Chicago in 2006; National Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 2010-2011; and Editor of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru published by Oxford University Press; 

Chair: Shri Ravi Bhoothalingam

Nehru regarded democracy in India as the product of both the mass nationalism of the 20th century and of the ancient traditions of panchayats; it flourished by contesting the despotism of colonialism and its caricature of British constitutionalism. He was committed to both parliamentary sovereignty and constitutional sanctity; and while he did not define a “basic structure” he had an implied one in mind

Amb. Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary of India; H.E. Amb. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia; Amb. Riva Ganguly Das, former Ambassador and Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs; Ms Elena Pérez-Villaneuva del Caz, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Spain; Ms Maria Rosa Sabbatelli, Deputy Head of Unit, Rapid Response Europe, Asia and Americas, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI); Ms Priyanka Bhide, Founder Director, Kubernein Initiative; and Ms Khushi Singh Rathore, Research Scholar and Author at South Asian Voices

In-Conversation with Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC and Director, WISCOMP

(Collaboration: The Delegation of the European Union to India; and Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace)

By Gaurav Sood, disciple of Pt. L.K. Pandit

Accompanists: Khalid Mustafa (sitar); and Kuldeep Kumar (tabla)

Organised to mark the birth centenary year of Pran Nevile and the 119th birth anniversary of K.L. Saigal

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)

Keynote Speaker: Shri Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

(Collaboration: India Justice Report Collective)

Speakers: Lucas Chancel, Sciences Po and Paris School of Economics; Prabhat Patnaik, formerly Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Pronab Sen, economist and statistician, Indian School of Public Policy; Dipa Sinha, Assistant Professor (economics), Ambedkar University; and Partha Sen, former Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Moderator: Suhas Borker

The discussion focuses on the limitations and difficulties of measuring inequality in contemporary societies, and in particular, how the collection and dissemination of inequality data can match up with on the ground efforts to address inequality and its corrosive effects on democracy and accountability

(Collaboration: Centre for Financial Accountability; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
 

Speaker: Mr. Hervé Juvin, Member of European Parliament, Member on the Parliament’s Commission for South Asia, and President of Identity and Democracy Foundation; and author of The Coming of the Body

Chair: Mr. Come Carpentier de Gourdon, Convener, Editorial Board of the World Affairs Journal

Chair: Devaki Jain

Speakers: Martha ‘Marty’ Alter Chen, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Senior Advisor, WIEGO Network, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Indira Jaisingh, Senior Advocate; Vijay Mahajan, Founder Basix; Savitaben, street vendor; and Kantaben, SEWA Bank

Moderator: Renana Jhabvala

Organised in collaboration with SEWA Bharat to mark the birth date of Smt Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Life Trustee and Vice President of IIC

Perhaps one of the most important revolutions that have occurred in our society since independence is the change in the position of women, a feminist revolution. Kamaladevi Chatopadhyay early on recognised the significant role of women artisans, often not recognised and a few decades later Elaben took this forward with women in the informal economy, which constitutes nearly 90% of workers. SEWA, the movement and family of organisations that Elaben created transformed both the knowledge and practices in the fields of labour and finance.

SEWA Bank was the word’s first microfinance organisation, “owned and managed by women” to bring finance to poor women