The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West

By Amitav Acharya (Basic Books, 2025)

Discussants: Shri. Sachin Chaturvedi, Vice Chancellor, Nalanda University & Director General, RIS; Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy, Professor, MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia; Prof. Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Relations , School of International Service, American University and author of the book

Chair/ Moderator: Amb. Sujan Chinoy, Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Inauguration 

Curated by Munjarita Mondal

Covers from the collection of Arunabha Ghosh

This exhibition creates a sensory journey through the art of the album cover—where sight, touch, and sound converge. It explores how the physicality of records—their sleeves, textures, and imagery—evokes a personal, almost ritualistic connection to music. As described by Arunabha Ghosh, these objects become vessels of memory, linking past experiences through sensation. In contrast to today’s digital world, the exhibition invites viewers to rediscover music’s tangible presence through the intimate handling of albums.

The exhibition will remain on view from 26 July to 1 August 2025, 11:00 to 19:00 hours daily

Inauguration

An Exhibition of a selection of photographs curated by Aditi Mehta

This exhibition is the first exposure of wider audiences to the rich world of Bhil rituals, performance and oral literature, through the lenses of much-acclaimed photographer and Padmashri awardee, Sudharak Olwaye. 

Aditi Mehta authored the 3-volume series, “Playing with the Goddess-Gavri of the Mewar Bhils.” which features these photographs.

A unique two-day immersion with Yogacharya Dr. Anand Balayogi Bhavanani, Director, Institute of Salutogenesis and complementary medicine, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry; and Yogacharini Dr Sangeeta Biagi, Director, International Studies and Research, Gitananda Nada Yoga, Ananda Ashram, Pondicherry.

The workshop integrates breath, sound and stillness to cultivate resilience, compassion, and inner clarity, drawing from traditional lineages and contemporary therapeutic practices

Due to limited seats, we would request you to kindly please register in advance should you wish to attend the workshop. 

The link for registration is given below: - https://forms.gle/LQZZViyxpUQttrnZA

(86 min;2022; Hindi, Bengali with English subtitles)

A film by Nishtha Jain, a leading documentary filmmaker from India

Winner of the Best Feature Documentary, MIFF 2024 ,Best Sound Design, MIFF 2024, Best Documentary, 42nd Bergamo Film Meeting, Italy 2024 and many others

Outside Kolkata a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the rhythms of the century-old machines. The Golden Thread follows the weft and warp of jute work, weaving the 'fibre of the future' with the dreams and desperations of its workers.

Celebrating the Life of Situ Singh Buehler (1948–2025), a pioneer in Western classical music education, she spent over 25 years nurturing the performing arts in India and helped build Delhi into a hub for international music training and appreciation.

Carrying forward her extraordinary legacy, this concert showcases soloists from the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi, featuring repertoire from the Baroque to the Romantic, the music that Situ spent her life teaching us to love.

(Collaboration: Lyric Ensemble of Delhi)

Poetry Reading by Ranjana Argade from Ahmedabad, Shobha Akshar, Vimal Kumar and Vinod Bharadwaj, all from Delhi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries: Colonial and Post-colonial India

Edited By Anna Bochkovskaya, Sanjukta Das Gupta, and Amit Prakash (Routeledge; 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Vinita Damodaran, South Asian History, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Prof. Nasreen Chowdhory, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi; Prof. Surinder Singh Jodhka, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, JNU; Prof. Anna Bochkovskaya, Editor of the Book; Prof. Sanjukta Das Gupta, Editor of the Book; Prof. Amit Prakash, Editor of the Book

Chair: Neera Chandhoke, Former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi