Speakers: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi, poet, critic and essayist; Prof. Harish Trivedi, writer, translator and academic; Prof. Radha Chakravarty, writer, critic, translator and academic; and Prof. Swati Pal, Principal, Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi

Chair: Amb. Navtej Sarna, author, historian and former Ambassador to USA

Lecture-demonstration by Vidya Shah, well-known Hindustani vocalist

This session is part of the two-day Seminar on ‘Syncretic Traditions in the Subcontinent over the Ages: Contemporary Challenges”

(Collaboration: Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts)
 

Speaker: General Anil Chauhan, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, Chief of Defence Staff

Followed by a

Conversation with Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC and former Defence Secretary and former Governor of Jammu & Kashmir

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

An exhibition, demonstration and workshop

By Dr. Waheedeh Wussoqzadeh and Ms Mahbubeh Hasani Panah, leading calligraphy artists from Iran

On Thursday, 14 November 2024 from 3 pm to 6 pm in the Quadrangle Garden and Lounge Veranda, IIC
 

Is a Free Market for agri produce the Next Big Idea in Agriculture?

Panelists: Dr. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University; Dr. J.S. Yadav, Council of State Agriculture Marketing Boards (COSAMB); and Shri Sachidanand Madan, formerly with ITC

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain (IAS retd.), former Union Agriculture Secretary

Moderator: Shri Pravesh Sharma (IAS retd.), former Managing Director, Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)

A conversation with Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, co-editors of the new book published by Zubaan; Neivikhotso Chaya, freelance editor for research manuscripts in Earth and Environmental Sciences;  Anjuman Ara Begum, Associate Professor, Royal School of Law and Administration, Assam Royal Global University ; and Neivikhotso Chaya, freelance editor for research manuscripts in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dolly Kikon is an anthropologist whose work focuses on the political economy of resources, migration, indigeneity, and food cultures in India. She is currently Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Joel Rodrigues is the author of Seeds and Food Sovereignty: Eastern Himalayan Experiences (2023). He is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

(Collaboration: Zubaan; and Heinrich Boll Foundation)
 
 

Concert presented by Azure Quartet – Thomas Knollys (clarinet); Elana Kenyon-Gewirtz (violin); Hoda Jahanpour (cello); and Joel Banerjee (piano)

There are very few pieces in the Western classical music canon comparable to the Quartet for the End of Time. This rarely heard piece was written in Stalag VIII-A, a German prisoner-of-war camp during WWII where Messiaen was imprisoned. Its unspeakable circumstances and infinite subject matters culminate in one of the masterpieces of the Twentieth century
 
(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)
 

Illustrated lecture by Dr. George Michell, architectural historian who has worked extensively in the Deccan region, beginning some 50 years ago with a doctoral thesis on early Chalukya temples. His collaborative publications with Dr. Fritz includes Hampi Vijayanagara, the popular guidebook issued by the Deccan Heritage Foundation. Michell’s most recent publication is the profusely illustrated Temple of Deccan India

Chair: Shri Ratish Nanda, CEO, Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC)

The late Dr John M. Fritz was the first American archaeologist to survey the ruins of Hampi Vijayanagara. Trained at the University of Chicago as an anthropologist with a special interest in prehistoric, Native American sites in New Mexico and Arizona, Fritz brought an entirely new perspective to South Asian urban studies. Together with Dr. George Michell, Fritz directed a team of volunteer architects and archaeologists to investigate the meaning of Hampi’s city plan. Building on more than twenty years
of fieldwork during the 1980s and 1990s, he concluded that the Hindu god Rama dominated the layout of the Vijayanagara’s Royal Centre by acting as a mediator in the everyday activities and ceremonial life of the Vijayanagara rulers. It is this innovative interpretation that Michell will discuss in his illustrated lecture.

(Collaboration: American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon)