Women in Law in India

Speaker: Smt Justice Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court 

 

Discussants: Shri Arghya Sengupta, Vidhi Dialogues; and Ms Liz Matthew, Advocate

Chair: Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna

 

Justice Malhotra will speak on her journey in understanding the legal profession in India and how that experience moulded women in taking stands and making judgements. It is also a platform to articulate how dexterously the instrument of law can be wielded by women to solve problems that beset our society

 

First in a new lecture series focusing on women in law in India

 

To mark the 83rd Anniversary of Lodhi Garden

 

Pictorial Walk in Lodhi Garden

With Ashok Dilwali, well-known photographer

 

Followed by a discussion on

Saving the Aravalli is critical for the Survival of Delhi

Why and how to save Aravalli - Speaker: Prof. C.R. Babu, Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi and Distinguished Professor of the Environment and Ecology, School of Human Ecology, Ambedkar University, Delhi

Judicial Intervention to save Aravalli – Speaker: Shri T.K. Shah, former Vice Chairman, Income Tax Settlement Commission, Kolkata and Advocate

 

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Founder Member, Green Circle of Delhi

 

The Green Circle of Delhi is arranging a visit to the Aravalli Biodiversity Park for IIC Members on Sunday, 14 April 2019. Members who would like to join are requested to give their names at the venue

 

Kindly please bring a cloth/jute carry bag to take away a sapling which will be presented to each participant by NDMC Horticulture Department

 

(Collaboration: Green Circle of Delhi)

 

Remembering Freda Bedi

The extraordinary story of a devoted Indian wife and doting mother, a hands on social worker and investigative journalist, a university teacher and Tibetan translator, a Gandhi satyagraha and Buddhist nun

 

Launch of the book The Spiritual Odyssey of Freda Bedi by Norma Levine followed by a discussion with eminent Buddhist masters, and close associates and friends of Freda Bedi 

 

(Collaboration: Vikramshila Foundation India)

 

Rahul Sankrityayan: Untangling a Legacy

Speaker: Dr. Maya Joshi is Associate Professor at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi. She has also worked in close association with Tibet House, New Delhi for over a decade

 

Chair: Apoorvanand

 

Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963), the partially-remembered polymath, deserves a closer, clearer look. Based on a decade-long engagement with the subject, the illustrated talk will delineate the major contours of his remarkable intellectual and political growth, and dwell on ways in which his vast oeuvre compels us to join him in his adventurous travels across borders disciplinary, linguistic, generic. His ghumakkari engages dialogically with the categories of nation, culture, religion, and identity

 

Concert

By Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Mohan veena and Salil Bhatt, Satvik veena 

Accompanied by Ram Kumar Mishra on tabla

 

Programme in memory of Sharan Rani Backliwal

IIC BAITHAKI

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Ankita Joshi from Mumbai, disciple of Sangeet Martand Pt. Jasraj; and Shri Lakshmikant Ravande

Accompanists: Abhinav Ravande (harmonium); and Ramkrishna Karambelkar (tabla)

The Seven Cities of Delhi: Untold Stories
 

Talks and discussions led by Dr. Harsh Pathak

The Latin Guitar

Guitar music from Spain and Latin America – classical guitar recital by Santanu Datta

 

The artist will present a programme of works by Leo Brouwer; Emilio Pujol; Francisco Tárrega; Heitor Villa-Lobos; Isaac Albéniz; and Joaquin Turina

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Poetry in India and Foreign Landscapes

Readings from Sediments of Silence by Mohammad Hasan; and Scattered Rays by Poonam Surie

 

Chair: Dr. H.K. Kaul, President, The Poetry Society (India)

 

Prof. Mohammad Hasan has taught at the Universities of Jodhpur and Nairobi; a recipient of the Fulbright-Hays scholarship and British Council Fellowship, Prof. Hasan has been a member of the academic Council and Board Studies of various universities

 

Poonam Surie, poet and author; her first book of poems Dancing on a Moonbeam was published in 2003; Scattered Rays is her latest book of poems published in 2017

 

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society of India)

 

 

A Tribute to K.L. Saigal and His Immortal Songs

An audio-visual presentation; tribute by Shalini Bhargava

 

Followed by Ghazals

Presented by D.R. Gaurav Sood

 

(Collaboration: K.L. Saigal Memorial Circle)