PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Hope Behind Bars: Notes from Indian Prisons

Edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka (New Delhi, Macmillan: 2022)

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Chair: Justice Deepak Gupta, former Judge, Supreme Court of India will release the book and chair the discussion

Discussants: Ms. Vrinda Grover, lawyer and Human Rights Activist; Shri Sanjoy Hazarika, co-editor of the book; and

Ms Madhurima Dhanuka co-editor of the book

Moderator: Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge, Supreme Court of India

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India’s Foreign Policy: Past and Future

Speaker: Shri M.K. Rasgotra, former Foreign Secretary
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
 

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Shahjahanabad – Living in a Mughal City

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Swapna Liddle, historian and author who is closely associated with the preservation of heritage monuments and sites

Introduction: Dr. Himanshu Prabha Ray
Chair: Prof. Najaf Haider, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

In 2012, Shahjahanabad was put on UNESCO’s tentative list for nomination as a heritage city, together with New Delhi. This talk will explore some aspects of the historical significance of what was once the Mughal capital, together with the factors that qualify it as a heritage city worthy of preservation. Here the town plan and architecture will be analysed for what they can tell us about Mughal polity and society.
 

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12 exhibitions curated by fellows of Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA) 2021 

Late Echo curated by Aakriti Chandervanshi
Is there a contemporary in Ladakhi Art? curated by Abeer Gupta 
Place a Mirror on my Heart curated by Akramul Momen
Resisting, With Power curated by Dhrupad Mehta
Kitchen to Kacheri curated by Ishita Shah 
Partners in Progress: Ek Kadam Bharat ki aur Curated by Kanika Makhija
An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms curated by Moakshaa Vohra
COPY-RIGHT curated by Oorja Garg
On a Walk curated by Sayali Mundye
Disobedient Bodies curated by Shirin Fathi
Translations of a Hermit curated by Shivangi Bansal
An Ode to the Anonymous curated by Tenzing Sedonla Ukyab Lama

Preview on Tuesday, 15 March 2022 at 18:00

(Collaboration: Khoj; and Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan)
 

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HER VOICE: Diplomacy Today: A Woman’s Agenda

Speaker: Amb. Nirupama Rao, formerly Foreign Secretary of India and High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Ambassador to China and USA

Introduction: Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC

Concluding Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

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

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Migrants Chronicles and Pandemic Musings

A poetic chronicle of the pandemic by Satya Mohanty (New Delhi, Dhauli Books: 2021)

Speakers: Shri Jatin Das, painter and poet; Dr. Rita Malhotra, former Principal, Kamala Nehru College and poet; Prof. Anisur Rahman, former Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia and poet; Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet, author and Treasurer, The Poetry Society (India); and Dr. Satya Mohanty, former Secretary, Govt. of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

PHYSICAL EXHIBITION  
  
Impressions of monuments faithfully rendered in watercolours by Himanish Das
From the collection of Agha Khan Trust for Culture

Inauguration by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC on Tuesday, 8 March 2022 at 18:30
 

A Search for Sustainability

A talk by Rajat Kapoor, Architect and an advocate of natural farming. The presentation will explain the links between farming and sustainable architecture - both as an outcome of traditional practice and community knowledge, as well as a method of generating socially and ecologically appropriate architecture and infrastructure today. 

Followed by a dialogue with Snehanshu Mukherjee, Architect, Educator and Writer; Adjunct Professor, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi, and Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. 

The sixth in the bi-monthly series structured around dialogues that endeavour to present the role of architecture in contributing positively to society and to culture. Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series, through interactions with practitioners and scholars, intends to engage with a wide variety of people - professionals and lay-persons alike.