FRONTIERS OF HISTORY

 

Coming of Age: Aging and its Global and Local Politics

Speaker: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor, Sociomedical Sciences and History, Interim co-Director, Robert N. Butler, Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University, New York

 

Discussant: Rama Baru, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Chair: Mathew Cherian, Chief Executive Officer, Helpage India

 

The talk is based on Kavita Sivaramakrishnan’s new book As the World Ages: The Making of a Demographic Crisis (Harvard University Press, 2018). The aging of populations worldwide is being projected as a new, ‘grey Tsunami’ and crisis for economies and societies. Just as fears of a ‘population explosion’ in the 1980s were a concern about too many dependent children on the planet to feed; population aging is made out to be a crisis of too many dependent, aged persons to care for that will burden economies and societies

 

Release of State of India’s Business Responsibility and CSR Report

A civil society perspective

 

(Collaboration: Business & Community Foundation)

Inaugural Session of South Asian Literature Festival

Inauguration, Seminars, Poetry Readings, Film

Welcome Address: Smt Ajeet Cour, President FOSWAL

 

Chief Guest: Prof. Chandrashekhara Kambara, President, Sahitya Akademi

Keynote Address: Prof. Ashis Nandy, Political psychologist, social theorist

Special Address: Shri Piyush Srivastava, Joint Secretary SAARC, Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; and Shri Buddhadeb Dasgupta, eminent filmmaker who will speak on Cinema and Literature

 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation of SAARC Writers and Literature)

 

 

UTTARADHIKAR 2018

 

Hindustani Vocal

By Dr. Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi, disciple of Guru Smt Sulochana Brahaspati

 

Odissi

By Arushi Mudgal, disciple of Guru Smt Madhavi Mudgal

UTTARADHIKAR 2018

 

Hindustani Vocal

By Sawani Mudgal, disciple of Guru Pt. Madhup Mudgal

 

Bharatanatyam

By Himanshu Srivastava, disciple of Guru Smt Saroja Vaidyanathan

UTTARADHIKAR 2018: 3 TO 5 OCTOBER 2018

A platform for the next generation organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation

 

Sarod

By Ayaan Ali Bangash, disciple of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan

 

Kathak

By Shivani Varma, disciple of Guru Smt Shovana Narayan

Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics

A discussion on a book edited by Mujibur Rahman (Routledge 2018)

 

The book will be released by Shri M. Hamid Ansari, former Vice-President of India

 

Followed by a discussion

Speakers: Shri Jairam Ramesh, Congress (I); Shri D. Raja, CPI; Shri Chandan Mitra, Editor, The Pioneer; and Ms Aatishi Marlena, AAP

 

(Collaboration: Routledge)

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)