City Scripts
At 10:30 – 12.15
Urbanisation Round Table  (Lecture Room I )
 
Panelists OP Mathur, Neha Sami, Amita Baviskar, Rathin Roy 
 
At 12:30- 1.15 (Lecture Room II)
Making Indian Cities More Sustainable And Equitable 
 
 Harsh Mander, Amita Baviskar, Dunu Roy, Diya Mehra
 
At 14:30- 15.15  ( Lecture Room II)
Sage Panel On Urbanisation
 
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Suptendu Biswas,
 
At 15:30 – 16.15 (Lecture Room II)
Problematising Urban Masculinities 
 
Rahul Roy, Sanjay Srivastava, Madhura Lohakare
 
4:30 - 5:15 (Lecture Room II)
The City and Law
 
Amlanjyoti Goswami, Anuj Bhuwania,  A Sharan, Diya Mehra
 
5:30 - 6:15 (Lecture Room I)
Cinema and the City
 
Jai Arjun Singh, Trisha Gupta
           
 
 
City writing has gained popularity in the mainstream space in India over the last two decades across various genres. Aman Sethi's A Free Man, Naresh Fernandes' City Adrift and Vivek Shanbhag's Ooru Bhanga are some examples of narratives that archive the moments, people and practices that make and unmake a city over the years. City Scripts, the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), Bengaluru, celebrates writings that bring alive the city as seen through myriad lenses
 
On 11^th March City Scripts will continue at the Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi

Films by Gopi Gajwani (79 min)
Eight short films conceived and photographed by the noted artist, Gopi Gajwani. Each film has an independent theme and is without dialogue
 
The films will be introduced by the artist
 
Screening will be followed by a discussion
 
Films:
Once Upon a Holy Crow (7 min; 2012; colour)
One for the Road (11 min; 2011; colour)
A Working Fiesta (6 min; 2012; colour)
Striding Unto Glory (11 min; 2013; colour)
The End (9 min; 1973; b/w)
Time (13 min; 1974; b/w)
My First Prayer (12 min; 2014; colour)
Walking Tea on a Busy Street (6 min; 2014; colour)
 
(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

 

 

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

 

The Writings of Rajni Kothari - Politics in India, Caste in Indian Politics and Rethinking Democracy

With a foreword by Ashis Nandy (Orient BlackSwan, 2016)

 

Panelists: Prof. Yogendra Yadav, Senior fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Prof. Neera Chandhoke, former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi and Prof. Zoya Hasan, Professor Emeritus, Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU

 

Chair: Dr. Ashis Nandy, Sociologist and Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

 

DISCUSSION  ? SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30

 

Panelists: Naresh Fernandes, Editor, Scroll.in; Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, The Caravan magazine; Seema Mustafa, Editor, The Citizen; and Madhu Trehan, Editor-in-Chief, Newslaundry.com

 

Moderator: Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding Editor, Himal Southasian

 

The media’s job of checking those in power is more urgent than ever in light of the political developments in Southasia and beyond. The words ‘post-truth’ and ‘alternative facts’, so prominent now following the US elections and the rise of demagogues in our part of the world, implies the flattening of all distinctions between opinion, facts and truth claims. What is the role of media in this environment? Given the excessive control wielded by corporate conglomerates over Indian media, and given that print seems to be imperilled everywhere, are there more creative ways to fund the journalistic enterprise, keeping in mind media independence? Are subscriber based models the future now? And how do we do this amidst trolls and the rise of fake news?

 

(Collaboration: Himal Southasian, Kathmandu) 

 

 

By Gopika Rajan from Delhi, disciple of Guru Smt Deepti Omchery Bhalla

Art Matters

Biographies in Progress :   Shamsher Bahadur Singh, Raghuvir Sahay, Agyeya & J Swaminathan

 

Speakers: Mangalesh Dabral, Vishnu Nagar,  Akshaya Mukul and Prayag Shukla

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

 

(Collaboration: Raza Foundation)

 

 

 

Speaker: Prof. Amit Bhaduri, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and currently Research Professor, Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad

 

Introduction: Suhas Borker, Convener Working Group on Alternative Strategies 

 

Prof. Amit Bhaduri’s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. His contribution as an economic theorist lies in challenging the mainstream theory and analyzing the role of power in the market economy in a precise and yet compelling way

 

The lecture commemorates 25 years of the Working Group on Alternative Strategies

 

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

 

Digital India

Keynote address: Shri J. S. Deepak, Secretary & Chairman, Department of Telecommunications; and Shri Alok Kumar, Adviser, Niti Aayog

 

Chair: Shri Vinay Shankar, Secretary, Dept of Telecommunications

  

  

(Collaboration: IC Centre for Governance)

 

(23 min; 2016;dvd; English)

 

 

Director: Vijay Rana who will introduce the film

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion

 

A hundred years ago in 1917, Mahatma Gandhi set up what was going to be his Karmabhumi, Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. It was from here he decided to wake up India and shake the world in a gentle way. This documentary sheds light on Gandhi’s life in the Ashram and has a rare eyewitness account of the famous Salt March by one of his disciples, Sumangal Prakash who was one of the 79 Ashram residents Gandhi selected as his co-marchers

 

TUESDAY 7

 

 

The Pundaquit Virtuouso is a unique community arts programme of Casa San Miguel in San Antonio Zambales which has been training the local youth, largely from the fishing community, in classical music and the arts

 

(Collaboration: Embassy of the Philippines)