A Passionate Life: Writings by and On Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Discussion around the new book edited by Ellen Carol Dubois & Vinay Lal (New Delhi: Zubaan, 2017)

 

Panelists: Dr. Devaki Jain, well-known feminist Economist; Smt Jasleen Dhamija, veteran Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and former UN Advisor; Vaiju Naravane,     ; and Prof. Vinay Lal, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California at Los Angeles

 

Chair: Prof. Uma Chakravarti

 

(Collaboration: Zubaan)

 

 

 

A discussion around the new book by Bibek Debroy

 

 

 

The author will be in conversation with Sunil Jain, Managing Editor, Financial Express and Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research

 

 

 

(Collaboration: Wisdom Tree)

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

 

The 21st Century: Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace

By Balmiki Prasad Singh (Oxon: Routledge, 2017)

 

Speakers: Shri H.K. Dua, Senior Journalist and former Rajya Sabha Member; Prof. S.D. Muni, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis; and Prof. Amrit Srinivasan, former Head, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi

 

Chair: Shri Jagmohan, former Governor, Jammu and Kashmir

 

Sculpt for Delhi

Installations and sculptures in bronze, wood and waste material

 

Inauguration on Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 18:00 by Shri Anil Baijal, Lt. Governor of Delhi and Shri K.J. Alphons, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Culture and Tourism

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Art Society)

Passionate Players

Launch of the book by Pran Nevile

 

The book will be released by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, Chairperson, IIC-International Research Division

 

Followed by a concert

Songs that Never Die

By Dr. Radhika Chopra

 

(Collaboration: BOOKWISE, India)

The French Revolution, Napoleon, & the Jews

Speaker: Dr Michael Nutkiewicz, Professor of Jewish History, University of New Mexico, and served as Dean of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies 

 

The French Revolution set out to establish a constitutional democracy for all inhabitants of France. Yet the authors of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen asked whether Jews should be included as free citizens. When Napoleon came to power he submitted twelve questions to Jewish leaders to judge whether Jews were "ready" to enter the modern world 

 

CREEDS OF OUR TIMES 

Curated by Rajiv Mehtrotra

 

Arts & the Mind with Lisa Kudrow (120 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Director: Leo Eaton

 

Arts & the Mind explores the vital role of the arts in human development across a lifetime. This two-part documentary shares stories of how music, dance, painting, poetry, and theatre markedly improve well-being at both ends of life, and reveals the cutting-edge science behind this positive impact. The film illuminates how the arts can improve children’s school performance and also heal children in hospitals and veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama)