Looking at Delhi

An exhibition of paintings in oil and mixed media
By M. Sanghapal from Lonar, Maharashtra

Preview on Friday, 10 January 2025 at 18:30 hours

Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Mr. Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and Under-Secretary General

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
 

Delhi: A Nature Journal
By Anuradha Kumar-Jain (Rupa Publications: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. (Dr.) Harinder M Sandhu, Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Mata Sundri College, Delhi University; Shri Atul Bagai, Former Country Head for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), India Office and Dr. Anuradha Kumar-Jain, nature lover, writer and author of the book

Moderator: Shri Dibakar Ghosh, Editorial Director, Rupa Publications

Sitar Recital

By Shubhrodeep Pathak from Gurgaon, disciple of Vidushi Sahana Banerjee

At 19:00 
Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Swarali Panshikar Kulkarni from Mumbai, disciple of Pt. Shankar Abhyankar
 

Indian Soil in Revolution
(55 min; 2023; English)
Directed by Renuka George who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

In 2015, with the support of the state government of Andhra Pradesh, senior civil servant T. Vijay Kumar introduced natural agriculture on a large scale. The aim: to convert 6 million farmers to chemical-free agriculture. Through meetings with farmers and with T. Vijay Kumar, this film is an insight into the success of these new methods and the vision behind the world’s largest agroecological transition experiment
 

Tales of the Wild

An exhibition of wildlife photographs 
By Madhur Nangia

Inauguration by Dr. Latika Nath, conservation ecologist, photographer and author on Tuesday, 7th January 2025 at 18:30

Main Tum Hoon, Tum Main Ho! (Hindi/Hindustani; 50 min)

Human values, such as empathy, compassion, resilience, are vividly reflected in Hindi literature particularly in the context of the Partition of India in 1947. The traumatic division of the country left millions displaced, with families torn apart, and communities fractured by violence and distrust. Writers of the time portrayed the raw human emotions and the social chaos that accompanied this historic event.

A performance based on text - poetry, prose and anecdotes in the works of Punjabi writers such as Mohan Rakesh, Bhishm Sahani, Krishna Sobti, Agyeya, and Yashpal.

Dramatised readings and enactment by Alka Ranjan, Prof. Apoorvanand, Dr. Purwa Raza Haider and Yusra Naqvi

Concert – Piano for Four Hands

By Gioia Barbera and Federico Bucaioni from Italy

The artists will present compositions by W.A. Mozart; Franz Schubert; and S. Rachmaninov among others

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)
 

Nepal-China Relations: Elite, Interest, and Geopolitics

Panelists: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Gaurav Bhattarai, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal; Dr. Smruti S. Pattanaik, Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar-Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; and Dr. Gunjan Singh, Associate Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, Jindal Global University, Sonepat

Moderator: Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Delhi 
 

Illustrated talk by Naeem Mohaeimen who researches the unresolved liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and the conflict between memory and history

Discussants: Dr. Shukla Sawant and Dr. Suryanandini Narain, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Introduction: Rahaab Allana

The discussion will analyze the ambiguous if not contradictory and dialectical nature of social realism in photography in the two Bengals that were created through partitions
 
(Collaboration: The Alkazi Foundation)