Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy 2019-2020
 

To be presented by Dr. Sudipto Mundle, Emeritus Professor and Member of the Board of Governors, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, and former member, Fourteenth Finance Commission; Dr. Rudrani Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; and Dr. Bornali Bhandari, Senior Fellow, National Council of Applied Economic Research

 

(Collaboration: Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust; and National Council of Applied Economic Research)

 

ART MATTERS

 

Contemporary Art of Cambodia

Speaker: Ms Erin Gleeson, curator from USA who will focus on contemporary art of Cambodia in the larger context of South Eastern Asia Art

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation; Akar Prakar; and Asia Contemporary Art Week, New York)

 

To Mark the Birth Centenary of Nani Palkhivala

 

Lecture to be delivered by  Dr Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India

 

(Collaboration: Research and Information System for Developing Countries)

 

A Festival of Music

A Festival of Music

 

Hindustani Classical Sitar Recital

By Ayan Sengupta

 

Followed by

 

Musical Kabeera

By Maitreyi Pahari

 

Kabir Antarman ki Awaaz

By Vidhi Sharma

 

Music direction: Pt. Ajay Prasanna

 

A Festival of Music

 

Hindustani Classical Sitar Recital

By Ayan Sengupta

 

Followed by

 

Musical Kabeera

By Maitreyi Pahari

 

Kabir Antarman ki Awaaz

By Vidhi Sharma

 

Music direction: Pt. Ajay Prasanna

 

A Festival of Music: 14 to 16 November 2019

Organised in collaboration with The Rasaja Foundation as part of the Jaya Appasamy Centenary Celebrations

 

Hindustani Classical Vocal Recital

By Kaushiki Chakraborty

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 

 

The Swachh Bharat Revolution: Four Pillars of India’s Behavioural Transformation

Edited by Parameswaran Iyer (HarperCollins, 2019)

 

Discussants: Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, Niti Aayog; Ms Naina Kidwai, Chairperson, India Sanitation Council; and Shri Hari Menon, Country Director, Gates Foundation, India

 

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

 

Dastan-e-Jallian

Premiere of a Dastangoi performance on the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy of 1919 

Presented by Dastangoi Collective

 

To mark the centenary year of the massacre, this Dastangoi performance recounts the story of one of the most brutal acts of Colonialism in modern history. It draws from various writings across genres – protest poetry in Urdu and Punjabi; writings of Manto and Krishan Chander; speeches of Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore; and official reports such as the Hunter Commission Report to tell a story that speaks not just of the past, but also of the present

 

Written by Ainie Farooqui

Performed by Ainie Farooqui and Nusrat Ansari

Directed by Mahmood Farooqui

 

Sustainable Infrastructure – Role of Quantity Surveyor

 

 

Development of infrastructure boosts the economy and sustainable infrastructure is the way forward for India in this direction. Sustainable infrastructure tries to add value to the facilities in the long run thereby improving the standard of living. The focus of sustainable infrastructure projects is to optimize aspects such as energy consumption, water consumption, solid waste management etc. which requires considerable cost in sustainable engineering that can reap benefits from the perspective of life cycle costs. A quantity surveyor plays a pivotal role in the construction of sustainable and energy efficient infrastructure. The balance of sustainability and affordability is a challenge for the Quantity surveyor in delivering sustainable infrastructure. In addition to traditional ways of estimating and controlling costs, the quantity surveyor has to look at the concepts of whole life costing and cost effective sustainable strategies to evaluate the green costs of projects. The Quantity surveyor has to adopt offsite construction methods to minimize the costs as well as energy consumption. There is need for the quantity surveyor to drive the mission of sustainable directives without compromising profitability. The objective of this dialogue is to discuss the competencies, future roles and strategies that a Quantity surveyor could make in delivering sustainable infrastructure

 

(Collaboration: RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)