Inauguration of Seminar on Planning Urban Spaces for the Future

Keynote Address by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Urban Development

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President IIC

VIDHI DIALOGUES

 

 

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

A Gender Atlas of India

A discussion around the new book by Radha Kumar, Marcel Korff and Karthika Sudhir (New Delhi: Sage, 2018)

 

Release of the book and a panel discussion

 

Panelists: Sushmita Deb, MP and Head of Mahila Congress; Sonia Singh, NDTV; and Radha Kumar 

 

Moderator: Farah Naqvi

 

How does India rate in comparison with other Asian countries when it comes to the status of its women? Which are our best and worst-performing states when it comes to gender? Is India changing for the better or worse in treatment of its women? These questions and more are addressed in A Gender Atlas of India, using both government and independent data, and illustrated with over 200 charts, graphs and maps

 

 

Born to be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

By Syeda Saiyidain Hameed (New Delhi, Rupa: 2018)

 

Release of the book followed by a discussion

 

(Collaboration: Rupa Publishers)

 

CHITHIRAI  MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

Vocal Recital

By G. Ravi Kiran from Bangaluru, disciple of  Sangita Kalanidhi Shri R.K. Srikantan and Vidwan Shri T.M. Krishna

Accompanists : Delhi R Sridhar on violin & Kumbakonam N Padmanaban on mridangam

 

(Collaboration: Shanmukhananda Sangeetha Sabha)

 

FRIDAY 20 AND SATURDAY 21

CHITHIRAI  MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

Flute Recital

By G. Raghuraman from Delhi, disciple of Dr. N. Ramani

 

Accompanist: Delhi R Sridhar on violin & M.V. Chander Shekar on mridangam

 

Rroma – The Forgotten Children of India

Speaker: Prof. Marcel Courthiade, Professor and Head of the Rromani Studies Section, Department of South Asian Languages, INALCO, Paris-City Sorbonne and Commissioner for Language and Linguistic Rights, International Rromani Union

 

Chair: Ms Punita Singh

 

The talk will present the discovery/rediscovery of the Indian origin, ideological negation of this origin and of any Rromani identity, heritage, culture: the welfare syndrome; and perspectives of Indo-Rromani relationship

 

(Collaboration: Centre of Indology, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) 

 

Post Independence Architecture of Delhi – World Monuments Fund Watch Day

 

Post Independence Architecture of Delhi

Illustrated lecture by Kaiwan Mehta

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

(Collaboration: World Monuments Fund; and INTACH, Delhi Chapter)

 

Our Lives

An exhibition of photographs by NatsukoTominaga

 

Leprosy is one of the world’s oldest diseases. Although completely curable today, the age-old stigma attached to leprosy continues to have an impact on people’s lives. India accounts for over 60 percent of annual new cases of the disease and is home to around 800 self-settled leprosy colonies. Our Lives introduces residents of four such colonies and their experience of leprosy. It also features photographs of persons affected by leprosy in 40 other countries and invites viewers to pause and dwell on what it means to live

 

(Collaboration: The Nippon Foundation; and Sasakawa-India Leprosy Foundation)