Spiritual Ecology Lecture

Ecology in the Information Age: Negotiating the Unknown 

Speaker: Shri Sopan Joshi, , journalist for more than two decades, has travelled to several parts of India and the world, researching on environment, agriculture, water management, forestry and livestock, among things. He also writes on sports, adventure and travel occasionally. His first book, titled 'Jal Thal Mal', was published in July 2016; it explores the science and history of sanitation with a social and environmental perspective. In recent months, he's been preparing children's books on Mahatma Gandhi. Born in Indore, Joshi grew up in Delhi, obtaining a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Delhi in 1996. 

 

(Collaboration: Tibet House)

 

 

 

Aaj Kavita

Anamika (Delhi), Sangeeta Gundecha (Bhopal), Baabusha Kohli (Jabalpur) and Lovely Goswami (Bengaluru)

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

 

Last Girl First: National Conference Against Child Labour and Sexual Exploitation

Keynote Speaker: Ms Catherine MacKinnon a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality issues domestically and internationally; Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; widely published in many languages, her dozen books include Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Are Women Human? (2006), and her casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007;  also works with Equality Now, an international NGO promoting sex equality, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW)

 

(Collaboration: Aapne Aap Worldwide)

 

 

Between prefixes and suffixes: Problematising the Moral Code in Indian Aesthetics

A lecture by Navtej Johar (as part of the Abhyas Lecture Series) 

 

The lecture will challenge the predominantly linear and moral convention of the Bhava-Rasa theory by locating in it the possibilities of abstraction and viewing it within the realms of Linguistics and Poetics

 

(Collaboration: Studio Abhyas)

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister

By Sagarika Ghose (New Delhi: Juggernaut, 2017)

 

Panelists: Shri Manish Tiwari, former Union Minister and lawyer; Ms Nalini Singh, journalist, MD of TV Live India Pvt.; and 

Dr. Seshadari Chari, journalist, political, strategic and foreign policy analyst

 

Chair: Shri Wajahat Habibullah, former Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities

 

 

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Purna Chandra Chakravarty from Dhanbad, Bihar, disciple of Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty and Pt. Samaresh Choudhury

 

 

Political Violence in Ancient India

Discussion on the new book by Upinder Singh (New Delhi: Penguin Random House, 2017)

 

Discussant: Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History, Ashoka University; Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor Environmental Studies and History, Ashok University

 

Chair: Smt Ira Pande

 

(Collaboration: Penguin Random House)