By Pallavi Aiyar (HarperCollins Publishers India, New Delhi: 2021)

A Conversation

With Mr. James Kondo, Chairman, International House of Japan, Tokyo; Shri Sarnath Banerjee, graphic novelist; and Ms Pallavi Aiyar, award winning foreign correspondent, author of non-fiction books on China and Europe and, Associate Editor, The Globalist

Moderator: Ms Urvashi Butalia, author and publisher

Speaker: Monica Das Gupta, demographer, Research Professor, University of Maryland, USA. She has worked in the World Bank’s Development Research Group, Washington DC; Harvard University’s Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge MA; and at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi

Chair: T.V. Somanathan, Finance Secretary, Govt. of India

A key plank of development infrastructure is eliminating communicable diseases, which impose heavy costs on people and hampers the nation’s prospects for economic growth. This is a pure public good needed for a healthy population and labour forces, and no country has become developed without investing in strong public health systems. This talk outlines the institutional requirements for effective public health services, and the key gaps in India’s current public health system. It highlights how India’s public health services can be greatly strengthened within the existing government budgets for health. Simply deploying existing resources more effectively, and improving their management, can vastly improve India’s ability to eliminate routine communicable diseases, and better manage future pandemics such as COVID

https://iicdelhi.in/sites/default/files/2021-08/Epidemic%20Control%20in%20India%20-%20Sept%202021.pdf
 

A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain

By N.S. Vinodh (Simon & Schuster India, New Delhi: 2020)

Discussants: Dr. Uday Balakrishnan, formerly of the Indian Postal Service; Ms Himanjali Sankar, Editorial Director, Simon & Schuster Publishers; and Shri N.S. Vinodh, former Vice President of Fidelity Investments and author of book

Chair: Ms Narayani Mahil, former Head of Communications at BP and ONGC

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
     
An exhibition that celebrates the life and achievements of outstanding Polish women from Marie Sklodowska-Curie to mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz; Irena Sandler, a heroine who saved Jewish children from the ghetto in German occupied Warsaw during World War II; to the leading Polish Suffragettes; and to Nobel laureate, Olga Tokarczuk

(Collaboration: Polish Institute, New Delhi)

An exhibition that celebrates the life and achievements of outstanding Polish women from Marie Sklodowska-Curie to mountaineer Wanda Rutkiewicz; Irena Sandler, a heroine who saved Jewish children from the ghetto in German occupied Warsaw during World War II; to the leading Polish Suffragettes; and to Nobel laureate, Olga Tokarczuk

The online exhibition will be on view from 23rd August to 5th September 2021. The same exhibition will be on view physically in the Quadrangle Garden from 25th August to 5th September 2021, 11.00 to 19.00

(Collaboration: Polish Institute, New Delhi)

POSTPONED

Screening of a film Uma
Directed by the late Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Introduced by Smt Aruna Vasudev

Shree Radha
A short film produced by Dr. Uma Sharma

Followed by 
Thumri Abhinaya and Maharaas Leela
Presented by Uma Sharma and her disciples
Dance Choreography: Uma Sharma
Music: Late Pt. Jwala Prasad

Compere: Sadhna Shrivastav
 

LIVE  WEBCASTING

Conceptualised, created and directed by Manjari Chaturvedi
Script by Danish Iqbal

With Ekant Kaul as Dara Shikoh; and Manjari Chaturvedi as Rana-Dil

A unique theatrical dance production under “The Courtesan Project”, the performances traces the strange love story, poignant and tragic of Dara Shikoh and Rana-Dil, a dancing girl of humble birth. Dara Shikoh, the elder son of the emperor was so captivated by her charm and beauty that he wanted to marry her…  

The performance will be presented on stage and webcasted live on the Centre’s website and on Facebook@Manjari Chaturvedi

 https://youtu.be/CorvSIwQQ8k ( Click here to watch )