Historical Traditions of Early North India
Speaker: Prof. Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya

Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Tidrick, author of Empire and the English Character: The Illusion of Authority and Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life
Chair: Professor Aditya Mukherjee, Professor of Contemporary History, Centre for Historical Studies/ SSS, JNU

Chair: Shri Aditya Mukherjee

Speaker: Shri Amarjit Chopra, former President, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Guest speakers: Shri R.S. Butola, Chairman IOCL; and Shri B.C. Tripathi, CMD Gail

Chair: Shri O.P. Rawat, Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises (DEP), Govt. of India

Lead presentation by Ms Ratnottama Sengupta, senior journalist, film critic & programmer, presently Arts Editor, The Times of India, Kolkata; Arindim Sil, filmmaker; and Suman Ghosh, filmmaker

Organised as part of the IIC Film Club festival Bengali Cinema: Post Rituparno

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Jitendra Nath, Superintending Archaeologist, Mumbai Circle, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri V.S. Prabhakar

Excavations at Khirsara, a small village in Kachch district of Gujarat, have yielded rich cultural debris belonging to the mature Harappan phase. A well planned double fortification with  mud mortar plastered walls, corner bastions at regular intervals with a citadel in the south, residential complex in the north, ware house and partially exposed factory area in the centre