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Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?

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07 December 2017, 05:30 am
Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?
Programme Type
Seminars, Webcasts
Venue
Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC
Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?
Speakers: Shri Gaurav Gogoi, MP; General (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor, former Chief of the Army Staff; Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to France and Russia; Shri Gurcharan Das, writer; Ambassador Pavan Varma, former MP, writer and columnist; Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; Ambassador T.C. A. Raghavan, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; and Shri Saeed Naqvi, senior journalist and TV presenter
 
Chair: Ambassador Surendra Kumar, Founding President, IAFA
 
(Collaboration: Indo-American Friendship Association)
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

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06 December 2017, 05:30 am
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
 
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un) Making of Kin in India
By Anindita Majumdar (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017)
 
Panellists: Prof. Vinod Paul, Member, Niti Aayog; Prof. Mrinal Satish, Professor of Law & Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Law, Policy and Governance, National Law University; and Dr. Rita Brara, Visiting Faculty, Delhi School of Economics
 
Chair: Prof. Ravinder Kaur, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi
 

DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017

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06 December 2017, 05:30 am
DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017
Programme Type
Festivals
DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017
 
Films by Miguel Gallardo – Maria’s Journey (5 min) and The Specialist Academy (7 min)
 
Drawing for Maria, Drawing for Autism
Presentation by Miguel Gallardo (artist’s presentation), Spain
 
What I Learnt from Japanese Comics
Presentation by Bharath Murthy (artist’s presentation), India
 
Drawing Private in Public
Presentation by Kaveri Gopalakrishnan (artist’s presentation), India
 
FROM 16:45 TO 18:00
Drawing as Reportage
Presentation by Pierre Thomé (artist’s presentation), Switzerland
 
Drawing the Twenties. The visual creation of the crime novel “Der nasse Fisch” (Babylon, Berlin)
Presentation by Arne Jysch (artist’s presentation), Germany
 
Redefining ‘Ideal’
Presentation by Priyesh Trivedi (Adarsh Balak, artist’s presentation), India
 
AT 18:15
Publishing the Universe: The Power of Self -Publishing
Presentation by Bia Bittencourt (curator’s presentation), Brazil
 
Artists Panel Discussion on What is it Like to be a Comic Creator?
A panel discussion with comic book artists about their work, life, creative processes, inspiration, money, client expectation etc. etc.
 
Live Drawing Session accompanied with Live Music
Drawing by Lika Nuessli, accompanied by HA! – Abhijeet Sharma (guitar); Gursimran Singh (tabla); Mama Tochhawng (bass guitar); and others
 

DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017

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05 December 2017, 05:30 am
DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017
Programme Type
Festivals
DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017
 
Presentation of the anthology Long Form by Sekhar Mukherjee
 
Drawing is Meditating
Presentation by Lika Nuessli (artist’s presentation), Switzerland
 
Grassroots Comics
Presentation by Sharad Sharma (artist’s presentation), India
 
FROM 16:45 TO 18:00
Style vs Substance – Negotiating Between Form and Content in Graphic Narratives
Presentation by Vishwajyoti Ghosh (artist’s presentation), India
 
Drawn Cinema –II (20 min)
Animation films curated by Sekhar Mukherjee, National Institute of Design
 
The Personal is Political
Presentation by Kruttika Susarla (artist’s presentation), India
 
FROM 18:15 
Moscow to Vladivostok, A Travelogue
Presentation by Bettina Egger (artist’s presentation), Austria
 
A Musical Rendezvous with Nick Cave
Presentation by Reinhard Kleist (artist’s presentation), Germany
 
Panel discussion on How can Comics be used effectively to bring about Social Change?
With Editors/publishers of comics/Graphic novels to discuss whether comics can educate, raise awareness on issues that surround our lives; bring about change in societal attitudes
 

DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017

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04 December 2017, 05:30 am
DELHI COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL 2017: 4 TO 6 DECEMBER 2017
Programme Type
Festivals
A festival of comic creators, visual storytellers and professionals in the world of comics and graphic storytelling. The festival includes talks and presentations by leading Indian and international practitioners, film screenings and exhibitions. Organised in collaboration with Manic Mongol, Max Mueller Bhavan/Goethe Institut, Pro Helvetia, Alliance Française de Delhi, Embassy of Norway, Austrian Cultural Forum, Cervantes Institute, Embassy of Spain, Embassy of Brazil and Norla and Hochschule Luzern
 
Exhibitions:
of lines and TALES – I & II
Works by Appupen, Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, Kruttika Susurla, Sekhar Mukherjee, Lika Nuessli, Bettina Egger, Josef Yohannes, Reinhard Kleist, Amruta Patil, Bharath Murthy, Miguel Gallardo, Priya Kuriyan, Priyesh Trivedi, Kokaachi, World Comics, Anpu Varkey, Pierre Thomé, Sarbajit Sen, Harsho Mohan Chattoraj and others 
 
On view 4 to 12 December 2017 at the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza and at the Art Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex
 
Opening
Superheroes, Mythology and Halahala
Presentation by Appupen (artist’s presentation), India
 
A Journey in Indie-comics making
Presentation by Kokaachi (publisher’s presentation), India
 
Drawn Cinema –I (20 min)
Animation films curated by Sekhar Mukherjee, National Institute of Design
 
FROM 16:45 TO 18:00
Forests of Transformation
Presentation by Amruta Patil (artist’s presentation), France
 
The Urban Legend – Why I Created a Superhero
Presentation by Josef Yohannes (artist’s presentation), Norway
 
Fumetto Festival Lucerne – A Comic Festival Built on Bridges
Presentation by Jana Jakoubek (curator’s presentation), Switzerland
 
AT 18:15 
Launch of The Elephant in the Room – Women Draw their World
An Indo-German anthology (Zubaan: New Delhi, 2017)
Presentations by Urvashi Butalia, Priya Kuriyan, Anpu Varkey and Kaveri Gopalakrishnan
 
Followed by
Panel discussion Is Comics Something You can Teach?
Moderator: Abeer Gupta, Assistant Professor, School of Design, Ambedkar University, Delhi
 
The discussion will look at issues such as the futility of teaching authorship; exercises in sequential thinking; institutionalising underground art into a mainstream convenience – today’s comic education 
 

Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) – Boon or Bane?

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01 December 2017, 05:30 am
Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) – Boon or Bane?
Programme Type
Discussions
Real Estate Regulatory Act (RERA) – Boon or Bane?
Whitepaper presentation on RERA by Dr. Debarpita Roy
 
Panelists: Prof. Sunil Agarwal, Associate Dean & Director, RICS School of Built Environment (Moderator)
Shri Rajeeb Bairathi, ED & Head, Knight Frank, Capital Markets India; Shri Sunil Tyagi, Senior Partner at Zeus Law Associates; and Prof. Anupam Saxena, RICS School of Built Environment 
 
Chair: Shri Yash Gupta, Managing Partner, YG Real Estate LLP 
 
 
(Collaboration: National Institute of Urban Affairs; and RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)
 

Remembering Dr. Gopal Singh

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29 November 2017, 05:30 am
Remembering Dr. Gopal Singh
Programme Type
Discussions

Remembering Dr. Gopal Singh

Release of 3 Poets – An anthology of selected poems of Gopal Singh, Keshav Malik and Rakshat Puri

Compiled by Jasleen

 

The anthology will be released by Dr. Karan Singh, MP

 

Tributes by Dr. Mohinder Singh, Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan; Shri P.S. Bawa, Chairman, Transparency International & former Inspector General of Police; and Smt Shashi Tripathi, former Indian Ambassador & High Commissioner

 

Reading by Jasleen

 

Organised on the occasion of Dr. Gopal Singh Centenary Celebrations in collaboration with Dr. Gopal Singh Memorial Foundation

JAPANESE POLITICS AND PM ABE’S POLITICAL AGENDA

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01 December 2017, 05:30 am
JAPANESE POLITICS AND PM ABE’S POLITICAL AGENDA
Programme Type
Talks
JAPANESE POLITICS AND PM ABE’S POLITICAL AGENDA
 
Speaker: Professor Karukata Takenaka, Professor, National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo; author of  Failed Democratizatoin in Prewar Japan: Breakdown of a Hybrid Regime (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)
 
 
Chair: Ambassador Biren Nanda, Sr. Fellow, Delhi Policy Group
 

Real Estate Regulatory Act – Boon or Bane?

01 December 2017, 05:30 am
Real Estate Regulatory Act – Boon or Bane?
Programme Type
Discussions
 
 
Real Estate Regulatory Act – Boon or Bane?
 
Discussion on a white paper prepared by RICS School of Built Environment
 
 
 
Details of panellists to be announced later
 
 
chaired by Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee IIC. 
 
(Collaboration: National Institute of Urban Affairs; and RICS School of Built Environment, Amity University)
 
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