(52 min; 2003; English)

Written, Produced & Directed by Gary Glassman

Narrated by Sigourney Weaver

On April 25, 1953, the science journal Nature announced that James Watson and Francis Crick had discovered the double helix structure of DNA, the molecule that is fundamental to life. But absent from most accounts of their Nobel Prize-winning work is the contribution made by a scientist—molecular biologist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin—who would never know that Watson and Crick had seen a key piece of her data without her permission and that it would lead them to the double helix.

The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India

By Vijay Gokhale (Penguin India, New Delhi: 2021)

Discussants: Shri Jayadeva Ranade, former Additional Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, former Member, National Security Advisory Board and President, Centre for China Analysis and Strategy; Amb. Neelam D. Sabharwal, former Indian Ambassador to The Netherlands; Dr. Hemant Adlakha, Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Shri Vijay Gokhale, former Indian Foreign Secretary and former Indian Ambassador to China and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Vijay K. Nambiar, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, High Commissioner to Pakistan, Permanent Representative to the UN and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies

The New Challenges to India from Pak-Af under the Taliban

Coordinator: Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Panelists: Dr. Radha Kumar, writer, former Director General, Delhi Policy Group; Ms Jyoti Malhotra, Senior Consulting Editor, The Print; and Dr. Shanthie Mariet D’Souza, Professor, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta, Convenor, Regional Group on Afghanistan

The Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh has said that a rethink in India’s Afghanistan policy is needed. Forty-five days on, what are the contours of change to meet the new threats to redeem India’s isolation.

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
    

Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Rita Dev from Delhi, disciple of Guru Dr. Girija Devi

Followed by
Kathak Recital
By Sangita Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Smt Vaswati Misra
 
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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

A visual enactment of a new play presented by Ruchika Theatre Group
Directed by Feisal Alkazi
Script devised by Ritvik Mohan Bhagat and Feisal Alkazi

With Radhika Alkazi, Sanjiv Desai, Smita Mazumdar, Rajaram, Dhruv Chugh, Gunjan Sharma and others

A young boy’s body is found in Jahanpanah forest and the investigations begins, wrapping itself around one particular family. Justice in the age of social media, parenting and the lack of it, nature and nurture…Dramatic tension builds as there are a range of suspects…
 

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-    Physical programmes will be held as per the Covid -19 guidelines with 50% seating capacity in the Conference Room I and C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium.
-    Wearing of face masks is mandatory and will be strictly enforced. Entry will not be permitted to anyone not wearing a mask
-    Audiences are requested to arrive at the venues, at least 30 minutes prior to the programmes in order to facilitate the screening process at the Door
-    There will be separate doors earmarked for Entry and Exit

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PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

An exhibition of museum quality Dhakai Jamdani sarees from the collection of Siddhartha Tagore. On display are Jamdanis from the late 19th century woven in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and some from an earlier period including some rare pieces produced by the East India Company 

Curated by Puneet Kaushik and Rema Kumar

(Collaboration: Art Konsult)

India – A Federal Union of States: Fault Lines, Challenge and Opportunities 
By Madhav Godbole (Konarak Publishers: 2021)

Chief Guest: Shri M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Discussants: Justice Shri A.P. Shah, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court; 
Prof. Mustafa Faizan, Vice-Chancellor, The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research; Shri Gurcharan Das, author and public intellectual; Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; and Shri K.P.R. Nair, publisher

A conversation with Prof. K.P. Shankaran, former Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Stephens College, University of Delhi who writes regularly on Gandhi in The Indian Express, The Wire and The Beacon

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi 

Gandhi, as Akeel Bilgrami and Richard Sorabjee have argued, was a philosopher of great eminence. He, like the Buddha and Socrates, was an inventor of an ethics-led philosophical way of life. However what differentiates Gandhi’s ethics-led philosophical way of life from that of the Buddha’s and Socrates’, is its very visible political content. Gandhi wanted development of freedoms for humanity as a whole. He conceived a Constructive Program for this purpose. Only through political action, according to Gandhian ethics, can we implement the constructive program. Therefore Gandhi's philosophical way of life is an explicit desire for a socialist society. It is only logical that an ethics based on the reduction of selfishness can only approve a socialist way of life. Anything that enhances selfishness, like a capitalist economy, was therefore anathema to Gandhi's ethics-led philosophical way of life.