Panelists: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, IIC-International Research Division; Prof. Naman P. Ahuja, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Preeti Bahadur Ramaswami, Ashoka University; and Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author of several books on Indian art and formerly Chief Editor, IIC Publications Division

Closing Remarks: Dr. Ananya Vajpeyi, Fellow and Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Professor B.N. Goswamy (15 August 1933 – 17 November 2023) was a world-renowned authority on Indian painting, whose writings had seminal influence on our understanding of art. His works included, The Mughals and Jogis of Jakhbar (co-author, 1967), ‘Pahari Painting: The Family as the Basis of Style’ (1968), A Place Apart: Painting in Kutch, 1720–1820 (co-author, 1983), Pahari Masters (co-author, 1992), the multi-volume Indian Costumes in the Calico Museum of Textiles (1993–), I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion (co-author, 2006), The Spirit of Indian Painting (2014), Oxford Readings in Indian Art (2018) and The Great Mysore Bhagavata (2019). He collaborated on curating such path-breaking exhibitions as ‘Essence of Indian Art’ (San Francisco, 1986), ‘Pahari Masters’ (Zürich, 1990), ‘Domains of Wonder’ (San Diego, 2005–06) and 'The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word' (Frankfurt, 2006). He was Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, and visiting professor at the universities of Heidelberg, Pennsylvania, California, Texas (Austin) and Zürich. 
 

I am Sirat (Canada)
(87 min; 2023; English)

Directed by Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja who will introduce the film

Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India.

Screening will be followed by a Conversation on Gender, Gaze and Society: The Role of Human Rights Cinema over the Years in Shifting the Gaze

With Deepa Mehta and Sirat

Introduction: H.E. Ms Marisa Gerards, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to India

Moderator: Myna Mukherjee, Director, Engendered

Organised in collaboration with Engendered Transnational Arts & Human Rights, I-View World Film Salon Series; Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Embassy of Belgium; and Naz Foundation

Programme Details

The Situation in Myanmar and Implications for India

Speaker: Ms Nandita Haksar, human rights lawyer, teacher, campaigner and writer

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University and Indian Society of International Law

Bangladesh on a New Journey: Moving beyond the Regional Identity
Edited by Sreeradha Datta (Bloomsbury Academic India: 2024)

Discussant: Amb. Deb Mukharji, former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; Shri Jayanta Roy Chowdhury, Consulting Editor, The Secretariat & former Head, PTI, Eastern Region and Prof. Sreeradha Datta, Professor of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Editor of the book

Chair: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Studies Programme, Gateway House

Shapmochan

Rabindranath Tagore’s popular dance drama presented by Gaaner Tori, New Delhi

Directed by Trina Bhattacharya

Shapmochan which loosely translates as ‘Breaking the Curse’ is about a king who has a complex about his physical appearance, so much so that he sends a veena to represent him at his own wedding ceremony. He meets his wife only at night and impresses her with his soulful music, sensitive words and dance. Even though his wife, a Princess is eager to his him physically, he insists that she must first like him for his inner beauty

(Collaboration: Impresario India)
 

Ways of Renewing Designs with Communities, Another Way of Building

Discussants: Prof. Savyasaachi, Anthropologist, Professor and former Head, Dept. of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia; Prof. Snehanshu Mukherjee, Head of Interior Architecture and Design, Indian Institute of Art & Design, New Delhi; Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, author and Visiting Faculty, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi; Kanchan Joneja, architect, design researcher and visual designer; and Dr. Prabir Das, architect and Consultant on Sustainable Architecture

A continuation of the IIC series of dialogues on architecture, Talking Architecture 13 will discuss ways of ‘Renewing Designs with Communities, Another Way of Building’, through examples of alternative design practices in the 2023 Routledge publication of the same name. The session is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ashish Ganju (1942-May 2021) and his enduring belief in ‘the ability to create well-being in our habitat, a promise inherent in the knowledge-base architecture’
 

A duet between Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee and Shibashish Bandopadhyay (keyboard) through spoken words, dramatized readings and music

Readings from Rabindranath Tagore to Bob Dylan, from Leonard Cohen to Shankho Ghosh interspersed with music

Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Pre-hospital Trauma Care: Saves a Life

Workshop and talk

From 10:00 to 13:00

Workshop on Steps for Immediate life Support in Road Traffic Injuries for Bystanders

Every year, hundreds of lives are cut short as a result of road crashes. The socio-economic burden of road crashes is disproportionately borne by families of road crashes victims. The crashes are preventable with the implementation of data-led interventions and evidence based approaches to saving lives. Training bystanders on care after road traffic injuries can create a large network of individuals equipped with knowledge and immediate life-saving skills. These individuals when present at the emergency scene as responder/bystanders will improve the chances of survival and reducing the severity of injuries. The Workshop will be conducted by subject experts

Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC

At 16:00

Pre-hospital Trauma care saves a life

Speaker: Dr. Subodh Kumar, Professor of Trauma Surgery, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi

Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Sushma Sagar, Dr. Amit Gupta, and Dr. Subodh Kumar, Professors of Trauma Surgery, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS; Dr. Sanjeev Lalwani, Professor of Forensic Medicine, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS; and Dr. Tej Prakash Sinha, Addl. Professor, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS

In the city of Delhi, injured persons are usually transferred by police PCR vans, CATS ambulances and patients’ relatives. Only very few bystanders come forward and help these trauma victims. More and more bystanders (laypersons) should help these injured people in reaching the nearby hospital in a safe and timely manner and be a ‘GOOD SAMARITAN’.  The Good Samaritan Law allows a person, without expectation of payment or reward and without any duty of care or special relationship, voluntarily come forward to administer immediate assistance or emergency care to a person injured in an accident, or crash, or emergency medical condition. Good Samaritan Law protects Good Samaritans from harassment on the actions being taken by them to save the life of the road accident victims.

Laypersons can also be trained in various immediate life support procedures such as control of bleeding, splinting of fractured limbs, protection of backbone (spine) while shifting etc.
 

Speaker: Prerna Singh Bindra, author, wildlife conservationist and was formerly a member of India’s National Board for Wildlife. Prerna has authored The Vanishing: India’s Wildlife Crisis published by Penguin Random House and co-edited Wild Treasures, an anthology on Natural World Heritage Sites of Asia. A board member of Hathi- Sathi Foundation which works to enable safe shared spaces for people and elephants in north-east India. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Chair: Ms Prakriti Srivastava, formerly Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Kerala and DIG (Wildlife), Min. of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

India has 42 of the world’s 50 most polluted cities; our rivers are sewers and is ranked second in deforestation after Brazil between 2015-2020. While these figures might be contested, there is no denying that India is an environment basket case, and our wildlife is in a crisis with even some endemic species ie. The Great Indian Bustard and the hangul facing extinction. While India has shown remarkable achievements in conserving endangered megafauna like tigers and Asian elephants, they stand threatened with India’s development juggernaut and consequent demand for energy, power and infrastructure. Troublingly, the legal, policy and institutional framework is being restructured to weaken safeguards protecting forests and wildlife. This lecture will dwell on the issues, explain why conservation matters and why it needs to be a mainstream electoral issue.


 

Purulia Chhau
By Susanta Mahato and group from Purulia, West Bengal
 
The Chhau dance of Purulia district is one of the most vibrant and colourful art forms. Emerging from martial practice, the Purulia Chhau is a vigorous form of dance drama that draws its themes from the two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata
 

(Collaboration: NCZCC, Prayagraj, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India)