Sarod Recital 

By Dr. Akash Deep

With Ustad Akram Khan on the tabla

 

Followed by

Dhrupad Vocal

By Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar

With Pt. Mohan Shyam Sharma on the pakhawaj

 

 

The seminar revisits one of the earliest formal engagements with Corporate Social Responsibility in Independent India held in March 1965, at the India international Centre.  Held under the leadership of the late Shri Jayaprakash Narayan and attended by academicians, politicians, businessmen and development thinkers and practitioners, the seminar was inaugurated by Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India 

 

This seminar’s specific objectives is to reflect on whether progress has been made on business responsibility in the last fifty years (since 1965 seminar) and discuss the emerging nature of corporate responsibility in India 

 

 

Narrator: Liam Neeson

 

Introduction by H.E. Mr. Brian McElduff, Ambassador of Ireland

 

This landmark documentary tells the dramatic story of the events that took place in Dublin during Easter Week 1916, when a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. The documentary – featuring a combination of rarely seen archival footage, new segments filmed on location worldwide, and interviews with leading international experts – also uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish Americans played in the lead-up to the rebellion. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would wring a moral victory from the jaws of defeat and inspire countless freedom struggles throughout the world – from Ireland to India.  The film is an initiative of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame

 

Screening will be followed by a discussion:

Speakers: Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O'Donnell Professor of Irish Studies and Concurrent Professor of Film, Television, and Theatre and is originator, writer, and producer of the documentary on the Easter Rising of 1916; Dr. Conor Mulvagh, lecturer in Irish History at University College Dublin and the author of Irish Days, Indian Memories, a new book about the fourth President of India, V.V. Giri and his time studying in Dublin 

 

 

 

Speakers: Dr Rakesh Lal, Professor of Psychiatry, AIIMS; Ms Tripti Tandon, Deputy Director, Lawyers' Collective; and Dr Rajiv Khosla, Consultant Gastroenterologist

 

Moderator: Prof S. K. Khandelwal, AIIMS

 

Alcohol has a long history of use and misuse throughout the recorded history. In some ancient cultures alcohol was worshipped, while in others its use was condemned. In contemporary societies, drinking alcoholic beverages is a common feature of social gathering, considered as social lubricant. It is a huge money spinner for the governments, yet the politicians keep on toying with the idea of banning alcohol use as a populist measure. Many believe alcohol to have beneficial health effects, yet even regular social drinking is fraught with severe psychosocial and health damage. The panel will also discuss why India must have a National Alcohol Policy

 

 

 

A Jazz Concert

By the Ehud Ettun Trio from Israel – Danile Schwarzwald on piano; Ehud Ettun on bass; and Nathan Blankett on percussions

 

 

 

 

Speaker: Shri Sudhir Dar, well-known cartoonist

 

 

An exhibition of Rajinder Puri’s cartoons

 

 

 

Inauguration by Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC on Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

Rajinder Puri’s cartoons are in the ‘whiplash satire’ tradition of cartooning that grew in the West immediately after the end of World War II in 1945. Till Puri came along cartoons in the English Language Press were fairly gentle in their satire but Puri’s sharp, acerbic cartoons reminded newspaper readers that their elected representatives in the Legislative Assemblies and Parliament, regardless of their Party affiliations, were a shifty lot whose activities had to be closely monitored

 

 

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a talk in the Annexe Lecture Room II on:

 

Friday, 6 May 2016 at 18:30

 

Memories of Rajinder

 

Speaker: Shri Sudhir Dar, well-known cartoonist  

Speaker: Shri Pran Nevile, author of the book of the same title published by HarperCollins

Discussant: Shri S.M.S. Chadha

 

Chair: Shri H.K. Dua

Discussion on Dalit Vision: Beyond Rhetoric, Decorative Politicos, Brahmanical Hegemony and Maharashtra
 

Panelists: Shri Subhash Gatade, journalist, thinker and activist; Prof. Vivek Kumar, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Ms Anita Bharati, Dalit writer and activist; Prof. Y.S. Alone, Professor, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Dr. Harish Wankhede, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

 

Chair: Prof. N. Sukumar, Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi

 

Maharashtra Sanskritikani Rannaniti Adhyayan Samiti; and Working group on Alternative Strategies

 

The Parsi Connection with China and Its Role in the Making of Modern India

 

Valedictory Address for Threads of Continuity

 

By Amitav Ghosh, well-known author

 

 

 

India and China have been exchanging goods, ideas and technologies for millennia – the Parsis played a vital role, not only in this trade but also in cultural exchanges as they were by far the most numerous of the subcontinental merchants who actually traveled to China with their goods and took to the seaborne China trade much earlier than the other merchant communities. The China trade led directly to the foundation of many important Parsi business houses, most significantly that of the Tatas. But the China trade also provided the Parsis with resources of another kind: what we might call cultural capital. In many ways the China trade was the crucible of modern Parsi experience. In this sense it was also a vital element in an enterprise in which the Parsis played an enormously important role: the shaping of modern India