Threads and Flavours of Nizamuddin

 

Speaker:  Ms Jyotsna Lall, Director Programmes for the Aga Khan Development Network’s Nizamuddin Urban Renewal Initiative project. The project aims to use heritage conservation as a stepping stone to improve the quality of lives of people living in Nizamuddin Basti. She anchors the social development programmes in Nizamuddin Basti. This talk will share the overall work in Nizamuddin Basti with a special focus on the two women’s groups – Insha-e-Noor and Zaika-e-Nizamuddin 

 

The talk will share the history, journey, challenges, aspirations and stories of Insha-e-Noor and Zaika-e-Nizamuddin of the Aga Khan Development Network 

 

Followed by an interaction with members of Insha-e-Noor and Zaika-e-Nizamuddin

 

Display of Insha-e-Noor’s products at the venue 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

Lost Glory: India’s Capitalism Story

By Sumit K Majumdar (New Delhi: OUP, 2018)

 

Discussants: Shri Pradip Baijal, Chief, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Retd.); Dr. Chandan Mitra, journalist; and Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, journalist

 

Chair: Shri R.C. Bhargava, Chairman Maruti Suzuki India Limited

Thirteenth Annual Discussion on State of Parliamentary Democracy in India 

 

Speakers: Shri Subhash Ghatade, Writer and Activist; Prof. Nivedita Menon, Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, JNU and Shri D. Raja, Member of Parliament

 

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, CFTV  NEWS

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Public Service Broadcasting Day – 2017 (Jan Prasaran Divas)

12 November – the day Gandhiji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day. On this day in 1947 Gandhiji addressed more than 2 lakh refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhiji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast 

 

Gandhi - King Memorial Plaza & CD Deshmukh Auditorium

 

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. at Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza

Commemoration Choirs from Schools of Delhi NCR

Followed by discussion from 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at CD Deshmukh Auditorium 

Usha Mehta's tryst with freedom: Reliving the moments with Rita Mukerjee, former Chief Producer, All India Radio

Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay

 

Discussion on Public Service Broadcasting and Voices of the Powerless

Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker 

 

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar and Gandhi Yuva Biradari)

 

MID-YEAR REVIEW OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY

 

Presented by the National Council of Applied Economic Research
(Collaboration: Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust and NCAER)

 

 

Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practice

 

Welcome comments: Sanjay Chaturvedi (Dean, Social Sciences, SAU) 

Panelists: Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi;  Nandini Sundar, University of Delhi; Maitrayee Chaudhuri, JNU; and Dev Pathak, South Asian University

 

Chair: Ravi Kumar, South Asian University

 

(Collaboration: South Asian University)

BIJOYA  SAMMELAN

 

Banglar Gaan

An evening with Srikanto Acharya, Kolkata based contemporary Bengali singer, songwriter and music director

 

(Collaboration: Impresario India)

The Photographs of Dr. Verrier Elwin

 

An exhibition of rare historical photographs  taken by Dr Verrier Elwin during the late 1940s-1950s in the North East region of India, while he was Advisor for Tribal Affairs to the Governor of Assam

 

Presented by his son, Ashok Elwin

 

 

 

On view in the Foyer adjoining the Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex