Magic of the Mind: Exceeding Expectations
06 January 2015, 05:30 am
Magic of the Mind: Exceeding Expectations
Programme Type
Talks
Speaker: Dr. Apurva Sanghi, Lead Economist, Kenya, Rwanda and Eritrea, The World Bank, Nairobi
Chair: Shri Ranjit Gupta, former Indian Ambassador
Designed to enthuse, empower and entertain, this lecture blends insights on behavioural economics, social psychology into an interactive talk on training and understanding the mind
Askot -Arakot Abhiyan 2014
05 January 2015, 05:30 am
Askot -Arakot Abhiyan 2014
Programme Type
Webcasts
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
An audiovisual presentation by PAHAR
The Askot-Arakot Abhiyan is a research trip organised by Pahar once in ten years. The aim of the trip is to know more about the mountains, its villages and their culture. Issues of forests, decentralisation, women’s education, environment and wildlife protection, youth migration ecological imbalance are raised through these trips. The talk will address these issues based on their recent trip and to compare the changes observed every 10 years, the first trip was organised in 1974
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES
02 January 2015, 05:30 am
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LECTURES
Programme Type
Talks
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Plant-Insect Interactions with Giant Silkmoths from NE India
Speaker: Dr. Sudeshna Mazumdar-Leighton, Associate Professor in Botany, Delhi University
Chair: Professor H.Y. Mohan Ram
The old adage “You are what you eat” is particularly suited to caterpillars that grow into butterflies and moths. Plants chosen by caterpillars as food are intricately linked to the history (and success) of their lives as a population, race, and species. Sex, health, war, invasion and communication are all facets influenced by the choice of plants eaten by caterpillars. The giant Saturniid silkworms that feed on endemic species of plants from NE India are a less-understood but a fascinating tropical system to unravel. Lessons learnt from the biology of these insects and their host plants may be useful for improving the traditional vanya silk (Muga and Eri) industries of the region
Two Concepts of Pluralism: A Comparative Analysis of Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin
15 December 2014, 05:30 am
Two Concepts of Pluralism: A Comparative Analysis of Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin
Programme Type
Talks
Two Concepts of Pluralism: A Comparative Analysis of Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin
Speaker: Dr. Ramin Jahanbegloo, Iranian philosopher and academic based in Canada
Chair: Dr. Shail Mayaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
As history goes, Gandhi and Sir Isaiah never met and the latter never wrote any piece on the former. While Isaiah Berlin considered himself principally as a value pluralist, Mahatma Gandhi was described by some as an “integral pluralist”. Unlike many liberals, Berlin wrestled all through his intellectual life with the tension between pluralism and monism, and also between universalism and particularism. He rejected all monistic approaches to the question of truth, but criticized as well the moral relativism inscribed in the modern tradition of thought. As for Gandhi, his astute understanding of religion, culture and politics was envisaged at each level with an argumentation against monistic views and in favour of value pluralism
