India’s Finance Ministers: Stumbling into Reforms (1977 to 1998)

By A.K. Bhattacharya (Penguin Business: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Chief Economic Adviser, Govt. of India; Dr. Rakesh Mohan, President Emeritus, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) and formerly Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India; and Shri A.K. Bhattachrya, Editorial Director, The Business Standard and author of the Book

Dhrupad Recital

By Rubi Mallick Goswami from Bhiwadi, disciple of Pt. Ram Kumar Mallick

At 19:00
Kathak Recital
By Komal Khushwani from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Jai Kishan Maharaj
 

Speaker: Neha Sanghrajka, Senior Conflict Sensitivity Adviser, United Nations and Fellow and Senior Advisor, Geneva Centre for Security

Discussants: Rita Manchanda, Independent Consultant on Gender, Peace and Security in South Asia; and Ruchita Beri, former Senior Research Associate and Centre Coordinator Africa, LAC, UN Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses

Moderator: Sumona Dasgupta, Senior Research Consultant, WISCOMP and Member, Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC)

The first in a series of WISCOMP Dialogues: Conversations on Mediation, the talk will highlight Neha Sanghrajka’s experience of mediation in Kenya and more recently in Mozambique where she played a critical role as a mediator leading to the signing of the Maputo Peace Accord of 2019. The discussants will reflect on how the presentation speaks to the experience of peacebuilding in South Asia and the importance and relevance of learning from African experiences at a time when the India Africa relationship has found a new articulation

(Collaboration: Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace)

Panelists: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, IIC-International Research Division; Prof. Naman P. Ahuja, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Ashoka University; and Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author of several books on Indian art and formerly Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Professor B.N. Goswamy (15 August 1933 – 17 November 2023) was a world-renowned authority on Indian painting, whose writings had seminal influence on our understanding of art. His works included, The Mughals and Jogis of Jakhbar (co-author, 1967), ‘Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style’ (1968), A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820 (co-author, 1983), Pahari Masters (co-author, 1992), the multi-volume Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993–), I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion (co-author, 2006), The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014), Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018) and The Great Mysore Bhagavata (2019). He collaborated on curating such path-breaking exhibitions as ‘Essence of Indian Art’ (San Francisco, 1986), ‘Pahari Masters’ (Zürich, 1990), ‘Domains of Wonder’ (San Diego, 2005–06) and 'The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word' (Frankfurt, 2006). He was Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, and visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California, Texas (Austin) and Zürich. 
 

I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)

Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film

Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.

Screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze

With Deepa Mehta and Sirat

Introduction: H.E. Ms Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India

Moderator: Myna Mukherjee, Director, Engendered

Organised in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series; Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Embassy of Belgium; and Naz Foundation

Programme Details

The Situation in Myanmar and Implications for India

Speaker: Ms Nandita Haksar, human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University and Indian Society of International Law

Bangladesh on a New Journey: Moving beyond the Regional Identity
Edited by Sreeradha Datta (Bloomsbury Academic India: 2024)

Discussant: Amb. Deb Mukharji, former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; Shri Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, Consulting Editor, The Secretariat & former Head, PTI, Eastern Region and Prof. Sreeradha Datta, Professor of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Editor of the book

Chair: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Studies Programme, Gateway House

Shapmochan

Rabindranath Tagore’s popular dance drama presented by Gaaner Tori, New Delhi

Directed by Trina Bhattacharya

Shapmochan which loosely translates as ‘Breaking the Curse’ is about a king who has a complex about his physical appearance, so much so that he sends a veena to represent him at his own wedding ceremony. He meets his wife only at night and impresses her with his soulful music, sensitive words and dance. Even though his wife, a Princess is eager to his him physically, he insists that she must first like him for his inner beauty

(Collaboration: Impresario India)
 

Ways of Renewing Designs with Communities, Another Way of Building

Discussants: Prof. Savyasaachi, Anthropologist, Professor and former Head, Dept. of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia; Prof. Snehanshu Mukherjee, Head of Interior Architecture and Design, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi; Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, author and Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi; Kanchan Joneja, architect, design researcher and visual designer; and Dr. Prabir Das, architect and Consultant on Sustainable Architecture

A continuation of the IIC series of dialogues on architecture, Talking Architecture 13 will discuss ways of ‘Renewing Designs with Communities, Another Way of Building’, through examples of alternative design practices in the 2023 Routledge publication of the same name. The session is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ashish Ganju (1942-May 2021) and his enduring belief in ‘the ability to create well-being in our habitat, a promise inherent in the knowledge-base architecture’
 

A duet between Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee and Shibashish Bandopadhyay (keyboard) through spoken words, dramatized readings and music

Readings from Rabindranath Tagore to Bob Dylan, from Leonard Cohen to Shankho Ghosh interspersed with music