HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES

 

Plastic Pollution: Is the Crisis deeper than you know and how can India combat it?

Panelists: Ravi Agarwal, Chairman, Environment Committee of the All India Plastic Industries Association; Dr. Suneel Pandey, Director, Environment & Waste Management Division, TERI; Dr. Shyamala Mani, Professor, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA); and Priti Mahesh, Chief Programme Coordinator, Toxics Link

 

The discussion will address the causes, challenges and adverse effect of plastics on our health and the environment. It will also examine existing policies, regulations, the role of enforcing agencies in tackling the problem and the way forward in India’s green future

 

(Collaboration: Toxics Link)

 

Breaking the Wheat-Rice Duopoly in Agriculture

Panelists: Sanjeev Chopra, IAS;  Ajay Jhakar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj and  Punjab Farmers’ Commission;  Ashok Dalwai, Chairman, Committee for Doubling Farmers’ Income; and Sannadi Bhaskar Reddy, Syngenta Foundation         

 

Chair: Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog

 

(Collaboration: Navdanya)

Kerala Smriti

 

Mohiniattam Recital

 

By Guru Bharati Shivaji along with her disciples, Vani Bhalla Pahwa, Deepthi Nair, Anaghasri Parvati, Megha Nair, and Alexandra Vodopyonova  pay tribute to the glory of Kerala, its rich cultural and spiritual heritage

 

 

 

Choreography: Bharati Shivaji

 

 

 

Accompanists: Sadanam Rajagopalan on vocal and talam; Jayan P. Das on percussion; Kalamandalam Sree Kumar on edakka; Shyamala Bhaskar on veena; and Sri Nagarajan on flute

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Centre for Mohiniyattam)

 

 

Indo-US Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific and the Forthcoming 2+2 Dialogue

THE IIC EXPERIENCE: A FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS: 27 TO 31 OCTOBER 2018

 

PEOPLE OF THE NORTHEAST: MEMORY, INHERITANCE AND THE CONTEMPORARY

Focus on India’s Northeastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura

 

Members are requested to kindly please make a note of the dates for the festival. The festival presents exhibitions, performances, film screenings and cuisine. A separate festival programme card with details of the programmes will be posted separately and announced on the website

 

 

Breaking the Wheat-Rice Duopoly in Agriculture
 

Panelists: Sanjeev Chopra, IAS, MD,  NAFED; Ajay Jhakar, Chairman, Bharat Krishak Samaj and  Punjab Farmers’ Commission;  Ashok Dalwai, Chairman, Committee for Doubling Farmers’ Income; and Sannadi  Bhaskar Reddy, Syngenta Foundation         

Chair: Ramesh Chand, Member, Niti Aayog
 

(Collaboration: Navdanya)

 

CANCELLED

BHOOMI 2018

 

Details to be announced later  

 

(Collaboration: Navdanya)

 

 

Carnatic Vocal Recital

By Dr. P.B. Kannakumar, senior artist from Delhi

 

Accompanists: Delhi R. Sridhar (violin); N. Padmanabhan (mridangam); and J. Vignesh (kanjeera)

 

(Collaboration: Gurukulam Foundation)

CULTURE AND HERITAGE

 

The future of the Taj depends on the future of Agra: Finding a way forward   

Speakers: Dr. Manu Mahajan, School of Planning and Architecture; Ms Amita Baig, World Monuments Fund; and Ms Renu Khosla, Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (tentative)

                        

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran

 

The first in the series, Culture and Heritage, coordinated by Ms Amita Baig