By Siddhartha Bhose from Kolkata, disciple of Pt. Partho Sarothy

Accompanied by Asif Khan (tabla)

The artist will present Raga Maru Bihag in teentaal

Video recording of a concert for IIC online programmes
 

India and the Bangladesh Liberation War

By Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (Juggernaut, New Delhi: 2021)

Discussants: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC; Cmdre. C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Research; and Amb. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, former Ambassador to China and the European Union, and author of the book

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

Panelists: Prof. G.C. Khilnani, Chairman, PSRI Institute of Pulmonology, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; Dr. Chandrakant Lahariya, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, public health and policy expert, lead author of the bestseller, Till We Win: India’s Fight Against the Covid-19 Pandemic (co-authored with Randeep Guleria & Gangandeep Kang); Dr. Gangandeep Kang, Professor in the Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences at the Christian Medical College, Vellore; and Prof. Maninder Agrawal, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, IIT, Kanpur
 
Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India
 

Inaugural Address: Justice M.N. Venkatachaliah, Chairman, Sarvodaya International Trust

Valedictory Address: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Session I (11 am to 1 pm)

Invocation (Vaishnava janato) by Smt Neha Vats Khankriyal

Speakers: Shri M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice President of India; Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Dr. Gita Dharampal, Professor Emeritus, Heidelberg University, Germany

Session II  (4 pm – 6 pm) |   Click here to watch Session  II

Speakers: Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Chairman, Gandhi Foundation, UK; Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC; and Amb. Alan Nazareth, author Gandhi’s Outstanding Leadership and Gandhi: Soul Force Warrrior

Sarod rendition of Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram by Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

Moderator: Shri Arun Maira, former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust)

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

Threat and Perceptions in the Himalayas: India, Bhutan and China 

Panelists: Amb. V.P. Haran, former Indian Ambassador to Bhutan; Lt. Gen. P.J. S. Pannu, former Additional Director General, Military Operations; and Dr. Nihar Nayak, Senior Research Fellow, M.P. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

Two countries that enjoy the closest bilateral relations are India and Bhutan; historically bound by the Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship 1949 / 2007. Common security is the foundational principle of the treaty. India and Bhutan are also two countries with which China has not resolved its border. The panelists will discuss the opportunities and challenges of these ties.

Role of Private Sector and the Media in Eradicating Child Labour

Panelists: Tanja Brok, Communications Coordinator, Work: No Child’s Business, the Hague, The Netherlands; Dr. Shankar Borua, creative entrepreneur and communications professional; and Smita Agarwal, Head, Education Programme at Tata Steel’s Corporate Social Responsibility who has worked in the field of education for over two decades

Introduction: Aditi Datta, Senior Manager-Research and Communications, ICCSPL

Moderator: Rakhi Sehgal, labour researcher and trade union activist who is currently coordinating an ILO project on industrial relations in the Indian garment industry

Third and final discussion in a series of three dialogues addressing the root causes of child labour organised in collaboration with Work: No Child’s Business (WNCB) to mark International Year for Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL – 2021). 

EARTHWORM TRACTORS (USA)
(69 min; 1936; b/w; English)
Director: Ray Enright

With Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee

Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't really know anything about tractors, and since the old-fashioned Johnson is opposed to tractors of any kind, it isn't going to be an easy sell. But Botts perseveres, encouraged by Johnson's daughter. 

The film has some amazing sequences that make viewers wonder how they were executed especially since special effects technology was not that well developed. The first one involves Alexander Botts giving the prospective client, Sam Johnson a demonstration and we watch the tractor practically destroy everything in sight! 

https://archive.org/details/Earthworm_Tractors_movie
or
https://youtu.be/zk12-PZKtg0