India-Russia Relations – Current Status and Future Trends
 

Speaker: H.E. Mr. Nikolai Kudashev, Ambassador of Russia

Moderator: Vijay Naik, Convener, Indian Association of Foreign Affairs Correspondents

 

(Collaboration: Indian Association of Foreign Affairs Correspondents)

 

Chameli Devi Jain Award 2019

For an Outstanding Woman Journalist

 

Followed by

B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture

Justice and injustice – Preserving and Protecting the Rights of Citizens

Speaker: Justice Madan Lokur, former Supreme Court Judge and sitting Judge of the Fiji Supreme Court

 

With greater recognition of the rights of citizens, the lecture will examine whether there is an erosion of some of these rights and how the constitutional courts are reacting to this

 

(Organised by The Media Foundation)

 

India, Europe, and the G – 20 Agenda

Introductory Remarks: Yamini Aiyar, President Centre for Policy Research

 

Keynote Address: H.E. Marc Vanheukelen, ‘Hors Classe’ Adviser and Ambassador-at-Large for Climate Diplomacy, European External Action Service

 

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

 

Together, India and the EU represent one-fourth of the countries present at the G20 Summit and just over that one-fourth of the G20 countries’ total GDP. Implying that when the two share a common stance, they have potential to push the global agenda in that direction. This public programme of the India-EU roundtable aims at giving an overview of what these areas of cooperation could be, based on the topics covered in the closed door sessions

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Policy Research; and  Bruegel)

 

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN INDIA

 

Mapping the Heavens

Speaker: Prof. Priyamvada Natarajan, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Physics, Director, The Franke Program in Science & the Humanities, Past-Chair, Division of Astrophysics, American Physical Society, Yale University, USA

 

Prof. Natarajan will discuss how our conceptions of the cosmos has evolved over time and chart the arc of our understanding of the universe and how we came to so successfully map it

 

 (Collaboration: Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Govt. of India; and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi)

 

Concert

By Bianca Gismonti   trio – Bianca Gismonti on piano and Julio Falavigna on drums/percussion; and Paolo Andriolo bass guitar 

 

A leading jazz oriented pianist from Brazil, the Bianca Gismonti Duo’s music reveals a vigorous interaction and sensitivity. Bianca Gismonti’s beautiful compositions come along with a rich Brazilian rhythmic gesture, lyric harmonies and inspiring melodies

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Brazil)

 

Asli Azaadi (45 min; 1997; dvd; Hindi/Gujarati with English subtitles)

Produced & Directed by Sagari Chhabra, award-winning author and film director who will introduce the film

 

A landmark film with interviews of women freedom fighters – known and unknown women who were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subash Chandra Bose

 

Followed by

‘Hamaara Itihaas Archives’

Discussion and introduction to India’s first multimedia archive of surviving freedom fighters and witnesses of Partition across India and South-East Asia  

 

Indian Nationalism and Economic Development
 

Speaker: Dr. Amit Bhaduri, well-known Economist

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

Indian nationalism, never a unified stream, assumed greater coherence through the anti-colonial struggle. Independence required redefining it as a ‘nation-building’ state-led project of economic development through industrialization which started changing course gradually as the anti-colonial nationalism began losing steam. A distinct break came with economic liberalization and globalization. The private corporations became increasingly important in this process. Output growth increased dramatically and then slowed, while employment growth went down equally dramatically. Indian democracy began shifting its centre of gravity.  The way out is being sought increasingly in the attempt at redefining nationalism in majoritarian cultural terms. While the control of the corporations over the economy continues to increase and there is rising economic, political and social inequality, popular resistance is also getting greater coherence. The jury is still out, but early signs indicate that cultural majoritarianism itself is undergoing mutation

 

The talk marks the 28th Anniversary of the Working on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

30th Padmapani Lecture 2020

Body, Mind and Purification: Reflections on the Body Factor in the Path

 

To be delivered by Prof. Asanga Tilakaratne, formerly Senior Chair Professor of Pali and Buddhist Studies and Founder Head, Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. His recent publications include Theravada Buddhism: The view of the Elders (2012, University of Hawaii Press) and co-edited with Prof, Oliver Abenayaka 2500 Years of Sambuddhatva: Global Journey of Awakening (2012)

 

(Collaboration: Tibet House)

 

To Mark International Women’s Day 2020

 

The 16th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival: 5 to 7 March 2020

The 16th edition of the festival brings together a collection of 52 films from 15 countries, directed by women filmmakers of Asian origin. This edition of the festival seeks to reflect on the idea of claiming democracy and the many claims on democracy. Women use multiple strategies to claim democratic spaces while being painfully aware of the many ways in which they are made invisible by majoritarian claims. The festival brings together women artists working in films and photographs to both document and intervene in these processes. The festival includes animation, short fiction, documentary and feature films as well as a section on Her Upside Down Gaze – the myriad ways in which women filmmakers are re-imagining the craft of filmmaking; and a special focus on films from the UAE. Women and Photography brings together the work of women photographers and collectives with a photographer/curator speaking about their project and an exhibition of photographs. Filmmakers from Bangladesh, India, Turkey and UAE will be present to introduce their work 

 

Organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio &Television, India Chapter; UN Women; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung; Sangat; Marwah; and with the support of Jamia Bank; and Canon

 

Screenings will be held in the Auditorium on 5, 6 and 7 March 2020 from 09:00 onwards. Filmmakers from India, 

 

For detail screening schedule, kindly please log onto www.iawrtindia.blogspot.in and www.iicdelhi.in

 

DERAKHT-E-DOOSTI – TREE OF FRIENDSHIP

Celebrating 70 Years of Indo-Iran Friendship

 

Mirza Ghalib: The Simorgh of Indo Persian Literature

Speaker: Prof. Syed Akhtar Husain, Professor, Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, School of Languages, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: Parzor; and Institute of IndoPersian Studies)