Speakers: Air Marshal Rajesh Kumar, PVSM, AVSM (retd.), former Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command; Maj. Gen. Jagatbir Singh, VSM (retd.), Distinguished Fellow, United Services Institute; and Dr. Meeran Chadha Borwankar (IPS retd.), Member of the ‘Core Advisory Group on Criminal Justice System Reforms’ constituted by the National Human Rights Commission

Welcome: Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Director, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) and Life Trustee, IIC

Moderator: Ms Rita Manchanda, Gender, Peace and Security Specialist and Research Director, South Asia Forum for Human Rights

Launch of Jubilee Edition of Peace Prints: A South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding

Following the legally driven 2020 policy directive on gender parity in the armed forces, the pathway was cleared for equal participation for Indian women in all streams, except the mechanized infantry and armored corps. From the initial uncertain experiment with batches of a few hundred in the 1990s, swelling to nearly 5000 today, women officers have traversed quite a distance, pushing past prejudicial stereotypes and gender barriers to become squadron leaders of combat units, deployed on war ships, command units, and UN Peacekeeping Operations. The panel seeks to explore the implications and challenges of these developments in the security sector.

(Collaboration: Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace)
 

An exhibition of paintings in acrylic and mixed media

By Meera Dayal

Inauguration by Feisal Alkazi on Tuesday, 12 November 2024 at 18:30

Essays on Military Affairs

By Maroof Raza (Har Anand Publications: 2024)

Discussants: Lt. Gen. P.J.S. Pannu, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.) former Deputy Chief, Indian Integrated Defence Staff (Operations); Shri Shekhar Dutt, former Governor of Chhattisgarh; Amb. Talmiz Ahmad,Ram Sathe Chair for International Studies, Symbiosis, Pune; and Shri Maroof Raza, well known media commentator on global, military and security issues and author of the book

Speakers: Ms Mohua Moitra, Member of Parliament; Dr Ajay Gudavarthy, Associate Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Ms Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, National Affairs Editor, The Wire

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV) and Trustee, IIC

This is the 19th edition of the annual discussion started in 2006
 
(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
 

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING DAY 2024
(Jan Prasaran Divas)
 
Public Service Broadcasting Day on 12 November commemorates the day Gandhiji made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio. On this day in 1947 Gandhiji addressed more than 2 lakh refugees at the Kurukshetra Camp from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Gandhiji held no public office or position in Government and it was truly a public service broadcast. Since 2000, this day has become an occasion to spread awareness about the concepts and values of Public Service Broadcasting in the country.
 
10:30 to 11:00 at Gandhi - King Memorial Plaza & C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Commemoration 
Followed by 

At 11:15 to 12:15 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium
Discussion
Usha Mehta's tryst with freedom on radio: during the Quit India Movement Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay. S.N. Sahu, former Press Secretary to President K. R. Nayanayanan, relives the moment. 
 
Discussion on Public Service Broadcasting: Watchdog or Lapdog
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker, Mediaperson and Trustee, IIC

Media students are encouraged to participate in the programme so that they are exposed to the concepts and values of Public Service Broadcasting.

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

Kamakshi’s Temple at Kanchipuram

Illustrated lecture by Ms Renuka Narayanan, former Arts Editor, The Indian Express and former Director, Indian Cultural Centre, Embassy of India, Bangkok who writes a weekly column on religion and culture for the Editorial Page of The New Indian Express

Chair: Prof. Nilima Chitgopekar

According to Indian metaphysics, Kanchipuram is the sole ‘mokshapuri’ or ‘salvation city’ in South India, the other six being wellnorth of the old boundary between the north and the south, the river Narmada. In this salvation city, the Kamakshi temple, dated variously to the Pallavas and the Cholas, is the physical and cultural hub and the only space focused on the Ambal or Devi, the sacred feminine energy. The talk introduces how this ancient monument lives through notions of sacred geography at ‘the court of the love-eyed goddess’, its animating concepts of ‘mokshapuri’, ‘shaktisthalam’ (space/sanctuary of the goddess) and ‘ghtika sthanam’ (seat of leaning) etc.  

Great Cases series discussion no: 6

 The Great Cases of CJI DY Chandrachud – An Appraisal of Judicial Legacy

Panelists: Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; R.C. Chavan, former Judge, Bombay High Court; and Maja Daruwala, Chief Editor, India Justice Report

Chair: Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

Hindustani Flute Recital

By Bhaskar Das from Mumbai, disciple of Pt. Gopal Das

At 19:00 
Bharatanatyam Recital

By Swetha Vivek from Bangalore, disciple of Guru Shri Adyar K. Lakshman and Smt Chitra Chandrasekhar Dasarathy

An exhibition on Abu Abraham’s work in his centenary year

Inauguration by Prof. Romila Thapar on Wednesday 6 November 2024 at 18:00

A walk through of the exhibition will be conducted on

9 November at 16:00 hrs by Christel Daevadawson, Professor English, University of Delhi

10 November at 12:00 hrs by Uma Chakravarti, Professor of History and filmmaker

16 November at 17:00 hrs by Manoranjan Mohanty, former Professor of Political Science

Closing Walk 

Tuesday, 19th November 5:00 pm 2024 by Janaki Abraham Abu’s Daughter and Prof. of Sociology

(Collaboration: Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Govt. of Kerala; and Kerala Lalithakala Akademi)