The WhatsApp India Story: Inside the Digital Maya Sphere
By Sunetra Sen Narayan and Shalini Narayanan (Taylor & Francis: 2024)

Discussants: Shri Santosh Desai, Founder, Think9 Consumer Technologies and author; Dr. Vibodh Parthasarathi, Associate Professor, Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia; Dr. Vishal Chhabra, Head of Department & Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Fortis Hospital; Ms Surbhi Pandit Nangia, Vice President (Partnerships and Outreach), DataLEADS, HealthLEADS; Prof. (Dr.) Sunetra Sen Narayan, Professor, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and co-author of the book and Dr. Shalini Narayanan, co-author of the book

Moderator: Ms Ankita Mukherji, journalist, former deputy executive  editor( News Desk), NDTV

State-Society Relations in Xi Jinping Era

Panelists: Anthony Spires, Associate Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne; Pradeep Taneja, Senior Lecturer in Asian politics, political economy and international relations, University of Melbourne; B.R. Deepak, Professor and Chair, Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi

Discussant: Alka Acharya, Chairperson, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Chair: Pradeep Taneja

Taal Vadya Kacheri

An ensemble of Indian percussion instruments
Presented by Peravali Jaya Bhaskar (mridangam); Ustad Akthar Hasan (tabla); Varun Rajasekharan (ghatam); Bejjanki Ravikiran (morsing); and G. Raghavendra Prasath (violin)

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital

By Sreya P.R. from Delhi, disciple of Guru Dr. Jayaprabha Menon
 

Our Arts: Our Society

Speaker: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, essayist, literary-cultural critic, and eminent cultural and arts administrator

Opening Remarks: Suhas Borker, Convener, Kapil Vatsyayan Memorial Committee and Trustee, IIC

Closing Remarks: Dr. Aditya Malik, Member, Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Committee and Founding Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Plaksha University

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

(Collaboration: Kapila Vatsyayan Memorial Committee)

Release of the book edited by Sumangala Damodaran (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2024)

The book will be released by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Followed by a discussion between Prof. Partho Datta, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Tanuka Kothiyal, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi; and Dr. Irfan Zuberi, National Cultural Audiovisual Archives, IGNCA

This book traces circuits of interaction between Africa and Asia as revealed through music. It is the outcome of a colloquium that the IIC convened in collaboration with ‘Recentring AfroAsia: Musical and Human Migrations, 700-1500 AD’, an international research project involving universities in South Africa, Tanzania and India. Participants in the project were in conversation with scholars and practitioners in related fields on the different ways that music can trace routes through our overlapping histories, and how such scholarship and performative interactions prise open a number of orthodoxies in our understanding of musical systems

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)

Life, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita
By Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta (Grin Media Pvt. Ltd.: 2024)

Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India

Discussants: Dr. Bibek Debroy, economist, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and co-author of the book; and Dr. Hindol Sengupta, historian, academic, journalist, Professor of International Relations, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and co-author of the book

Moderator: Shri Rishi Suri, Co-Founder, Grin Publication

Coordinated by Smt Rani Khanam, well-known Kathak exponent, choreographer and disability management specialist

Chief Guest: Dr. Arshiya Sethi, independent scholar

Presentations by Sharbari Banerjee, art educator and musicologist; Mrinalini Sinha, Special Educator; and Rani Khanam

Moderator: Jayanti Ranganathan, Executive Editor, Hindustan and writer

The seminar will begin with a live demonstration and lecture-demonstration by artists with and without disabilities

(Collaboration: AAMAD Dance Centre)

Seminar on Bat-tala and Other Print Making Practices: From Re-Discovery to Revival

Panelists: Shukla Sawant, artist and academic; Yusuf, senior artist; and Dr. Tariq Allana, Associate Director, Art Heritage

Moderator: Dilpreet Bhullar, Editor and Researcher, TAKE on Art

Print Making Workshop

Monotype Printmaking

Conducted by Priyanshu Chaurasia and Gaurang Garg

A two-day special Workshop on printmaking conducted by renowned artists. The Workshop will be held from 11:00 to 16:00 hrs daily and is open to both children and adults. All art supplies will be provided

Kindly please register your participation using the link provided below:
Printmaking workshop link: https://forms.gle/8XB7h6rKbm4qRuu19

Presenting works by emerging artists - Anu Gupta; Priyoum Talukdar; Priyanka Batra; Nitksha Dawar; Subhashish Dutta; 
Beenu Bhatia; Rajesh Deb; Kumara Swamy; Tandra Bhadra; Priyanshu Chaurasia; Prachi Sahasrabhude; Sushma Yadav; Sachin Nimbackar; Raymond Pereira; Rahul Dhiman; Jyotirmoy Dalapati; Jagadeesh Tammineni; Chandan Bez; Chandrashekhar Waghmare; Swapnesh Vaigankar; Sonal Varshney; K. S. Sarath; Rajesh Singh; Padma Karmakar;  Nidhi Mishra; Naveen Tungana; Khomdram Bonny; Attri Chetan; Anil Ijeri; Dipin Chandran; Satyaranjan Das; Dushyant Patel; Gaurang; Koustav Nag; Sonam Chaprana; Preeti; and Harish Lal Arya

Inauguration on Tuesday, 17 September 2024 at 17:30

Chief Guest: Uma Jain. Dhoomimal Gallery

Guest of Honour: Shobha Broota, eminent artist