Speaker: Dr B.B. Lal, former Director, ASI

The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Structures

Speaker: Justice S.H. Kapadia, Chief Justice of India

Chair: Shri Soli Sorabjee, President, IIC

Shri Bharat Wakhlu, Resident Director, Tata Services; Shri Harsh Gupta, former Chief Secretary, Himachal Pradesh; and Shri Mahesh Kapoor, Member, Indian Railway Traffic Service, discuss An Outsider Everywhere: Revelations by an Insider by M.K. Kaw (New Delhi: Konark Publishers, 2012)

Chair: Shri Keshav Malik

Panelists: Dr Rukmini Banerji, ASER (keynote speaker); Ms Jaishree Acharya, Sr. Programme Manager for South Asia, Room to Read; and Ms Abha Adams, Advisor, Step by Step School, NOIDA

A discussion of library best practices, which in an age of e-books must adapt like tendrils to new trellises. Panelists look at how libraries are managed within resource constraints, and how they are integrated into the curriculum

Speakers: Mr Bill Aitken, "Introduction to the Himalayan Club collection"Dr Janet Rizvi, "Ladakhi Trade Routes: A Link to the Outside World"
Shri Viraf Mehta, "Hidden Petroglyphs of Ladakh"Dr Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner, "Central Asian Influence on Ladakhi Art and Culture"

Chair: Dr M.S. Gill, M.P., Rajya Sabha, and author of Himalayan Wonderland and Folktales of Lahaul
 

A selection of books and maps from the IIC Library's Himalayan Club collection will be displayed in the Foyer

Electoral Reforms
Speaker: Mr J.M. Lyndgoh, former Chief Election Commissioner

Chair: Prof E. Sridharan, Academic Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study of India

Governing Diversity
Speaker: Dr Amitabh Kundu, Professor of Economics, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, JNU

Chair: Dr Ajay K. Mehra, Director (Honorary), Centre for Public Affairs

Illustrated lecture by Shri Sharad Khanna, Indian Wildlife Adventures and Shri D.S. Pandit, Naturalist/wildlifer