Intimacy Undone: Marriage, Divorce and Family Law in India

By Malavika Rajkotia (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger, 2017)

 

Panelists: Ms Indira Jai Singh, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Justice Shri Ravindra Bhat, High Court of Delhi; and Shri Prosenjeet Banerjee, Advocate

 

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, former Attorney General

 

FRIDAY 1 TO 8 

 

 

 

A multimedia exhibition that highlights unheard voices – the story of a woman still living in a refugee camp; how a city-wide Bachelors degree examination was put on hold due to a referendum in Sylhet; how two brothers travelled from Travancore State to the North-West Frontier Province for work and were stranded there at Partition, are some of the narratives. Narratives often not considered as part of popular imagination, the exhibition marries notions of history, memory, longing and belonging 

 

Curated by Aanchal Malhotra, The 1947 Partition Archives

 

 

   Chair:    Amb. Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary

                And Governing Council Member, ICS

Speaker: Michael Krepon

             Co-Founder 

             The Stimson Centre

 

About the Speaker

Michael Krepon co-founded the Stimson Center in 1989, a nonpartisan policy research centre working to solve the world’s greatest threats to security and prosperity. He served as Stimson’s President and CEO until 2000, and continues to direct Stimson’s programming on nuclear and space issues. He was appointed the University of Virginia’s Diplomat Scholar, where he taught from 2001-2010. He is the author and editor of twenty-one books, most recently The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age. He worked previously at the Carnegie Endowment, the State Department’s Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter Administration, and on Capitol Hill. He received the Carnegie Endowment’s Thérèse  Delpech Memorial Award in 2015 for lifetime achievement in non-governmental work to reduce nuclear dangers.

The talk will focus on US foreign policy under Trump and US-China relations.

 

Discussion ■ C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium from 10:00 to 13:00 and Conference Room II from 14:00 to 18:00

 

 

Celebrating Diversity

 

Release of new volumes of The People’s Linguistic Survey of India

 

 

 

Followed by talks and discussions

 

 

 

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division; and The People’s Linguistic Survey of India)
 

After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality

 

Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford Delong and Marshall Steinbaum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017)

 

 

 

Panelists: Prof. Deepak Nayyar, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Bharat Ramaswamy, Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute; and Prof. Bhaskar Dutta, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University

 

 

 

Chair: Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Economist

By Matan Fishov from Israel

 

The artist will present a concert of works by Beethoven, Brahms, J.S. Bach, Scriabin and Chopin

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of Israel; and Delhi Music Society)

 

Creating a Scientific Problem-solving Mindset among Young Indians
 

Speaker: Dr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, Founder of  Infosys
 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, President IIC

 

The first lecture in memory of Professor MGK Menon, Life-Trustee of the IIC, eminent physicist and policy planner who passed away in November 2016

 

 

 

Role of Communities in Sustainable Development of Historic Cities

SPEAKERS:
Communities and Heritage – A sociological perspective
By Dr. Savyasaachi
 
Processes of Conservation in Historic Cities – A Governance Perspective
By Jagan Shah
 
HRIDAY Cities on ground: the question on inclusion.
By Gurmeet Rai
 
Heritage and Equity: Why community matter? – the case of conservation processes in Ahmedabad.
By Jigna Desai
 
Moderated By K. T. Ravindran
 
Ahmedabad just got inscribed as the first World Heritage City of India. While the celebrations in the city are still going on, many questions are waiting to be answered; What part of the history of the city is valued by the world? How can that be separated from the life that goes on? Will the city freeze? Is no development possible? Will the development be limited to catering tourism? Will development mean beautification and creating false historic facades? What about people who live there? What about the poverty ridden areas? Will participation be relegated to mere consensus building, rather than active involvement of inhabitants? This event will focus on reflecting over these questions through examples of other cities, instances and initiatives. 

(Collaboration: International Council on Monuments and Sites)

 

 

 

 

Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero

(119 min; 2014; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Samrouddhi Porey

 

The film will be introduced by Suhas Borker

 

Dr. Prakash Baba Amte – The Real Hero is a Marathi biopic based on the life of Baba Amte's son and Ramon Magsaysay award winner Dr. Prakash Amte.  Baba Amte takes his son Prakash, who has just finished his doctor's degree,  on a picnic to Hemalkasa, a village in the Bhamragad taluka of Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra. How this visit transforms the life of the young medical graduate? Prakash moves to Hemalkasa. Dr. Mandakini, Prakash's college mate and wife soon joins him without any condition. To work among the Gond Madia tribals becomes their mission. Along the way, they struggle with wild animals, Naxalites and corrupt government officials.  Nana Patekar as Prakash Amte proves himself again to be a versatile actor while Sonali Kulkarni as Dr. Mandakini gives an absorbing performance. Today, Hemalkasa sets a benchmark in social transformation as well as raises questions about what kind of 'growth' led 'development' do we want in India? The film was made on a budget of 2.5 crores and became such a hit that it grossed a record six-time return for the producers

 

(Collaboration: Maharashtra Sanskritik ani Rananniti Adhyayan Samiti)

 

 

A multimedia exhibition that highlights unheard voices – the story of a woman still living in a refugee camp; how a city-wide Bachelors degree examination was put on hold due to a referendum in Sylhet; how two brothers travelled from Travancore State to the North-West Frontier Province for work and were stranded there at Partition, are some of the narratives. Narratives often not considered as part of popular imagination, the exhibition marries notions of history, memory, longing and belonging 

 

Curated by Aanchal Malhotra, The 1947 Partition Archives

 

Preview on Friday, 25 August 2017 at 18:30

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a film screening on 

TUESDAY 29 AUGUST 2017 AT 18:30 AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

 

Itihas Konya (Daughters of History; Bangladesh)

(125 min; 1999; dvd; English subtitles)

Director: Shameem Akhtar

 

The film will be introduced by Prof. Ira Bhaskar, Professor, Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

(Collaboration: The 1947 Partition Archives)