Recent Development in Nepal – China Relations: Assessing President Xi Jingping’s Visit

Speakers: Ambassador Jayant Prasad, former Indian Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan and former Director-General, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses; Maj. Gen. Rajiv Narayanan, AVSM, VSM (retd.), Distinguished Fellow, United Services Institute of India; and Prof. Srikanth Kondapalli, Chairperson, Centre for East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Moderator: Prof. Sangeeta Thapliyal, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

IIC Winter Festival of Dance

AT 18:00

Sattriya Recital

By Meenakshi Medhi from Delhi, disciple of the late Guru Adhyapak Jibanjit Dutta and Adhyapak Haricharan Bhuyan Borbayan

AT 19:00

Kuchipudi Recital

By Vidhya S. from Chennai, disciple of Guru Kalaimamani Sailaja

IIC WINTER FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND DANCE: 27 AND 28 DECEMBER 2019

IIC Winter Festival of Music

At 18:00

Rudra Veena Recital

By Sharada Mushti from Delhi, disciple of Pandit Arvind Parikh

AT 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Adarsh Saxena from Dehradun, disciple of Pt Arun Bhaduri

The Homeland

An exhibition by Moutushi Chakraborty who interrogates the idea of home. What is a ‘Home’? A three dimensional space to seek physical respite and emotional solace perhaps…or maybe an architectural splendor to boast of…a tattered bunker to hide from grenades or bullets…a magical cocoon to build dreams on…

On view are works in mixed media on paper

Inauguration on Monday, 23 December 2019 at 18:30

Human Origin, Health and Disease: Contemporary and Ancient DNA Perspectives

Speaker: Prof. K. Thangaraj, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

Modern India is a region of remarkable cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity with over 4,500 anthropologically well-defined groups. How did such a huge human diversity arise in India? Genetic studies over a period of two decades unveil the origin, admixture and its implications of the people of Indian subcontinent

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Book Discussion Group

Towards a New India: Governance Transformed, 2014 – 2019

Launch followed by a discussion of the new book by V. Srinivas (New Delhi: Konarak, 2019)

Discussants: Prof. Vinod Paul, Member, Niti Aayog; Shri Sudhir Bhargava, Chief Information Commissioner of India; and Shri Amarjeet Sinha, Secretary, Rural Development, Govt. of India

Chair: Shri Sunil Arora, Chief Election Commissioner

Recasting Selves (English, Malayalam)

(80 min; 2019; dvd; English subtitles)

Direction, Script & Editing: Lalit Vachani who will introduce the film

An ICAS:MP and CeMIS (Centre for Modern Indian Studies) production

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film foregrounds the fraught issues in the education sector facing the traditionally disadvantaged peoples of Kerala - Adivasis and Dalits. Set at Crest (the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation) in Kozhikode, Kerala – the film documents the ‘soft skills’ training of Dalit and Adivasi post-graduate students in a sensitive and nurturing campus environment as preparation for their employment in the new Indian economy.

Fifth Edition of State of the Indian Economy

Speakers: Prof Partha Sen, ECGC Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and former Director, Delhi School of Economics; Prof Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof R. Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy; and Prof Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

ART MATTERS

Gandhi and Art of Social Change

Speakers: Prof. Akeel Bilgrami and Dr. Abhay Bang

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

The Running of Indian Schools in the Gulf: Challenges and Opportunities

Speaker: Ms Ambika Gulati, Principal, The Millennium School, Dubai

Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian

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