India’s Experiment with Democracy: The Life of a Nation through its Elections

By S.Y. Quraishi (HarperCollins India: 2023)

Discussants: Ms Arati R. Jerath, journalist, commentator and columnist; Ms Neelu Vyas Thomas, journalist and former Consultant, Rajya Sabha Television; and Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and author of the book

Moderator: Prof. Pushpesh Pant, academic, historian and food critic

General Elections: 2024

Challenges and the World’s Largest Electoral Movement

Speaker: Ashok Lavasa, former Election Commissioner of India

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Trustee, IIC

Introduction: Vinay Kumar, former Associate Editor, The Hindu

Welcome Remarks: K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Opening Remarks: Gautam Lahiri. President, PCI

The series of Conversations with Media is jointly organised by IIC and Press Club of India; and is hosted by them alternately every month

Afghan refugee women’s stories of gender persecution

Launch of Women’s Regional Network Report “India-Afghan Refugee Community Conversations Report – Seeking Security, Asserting Agency” – Rita Manchanda and Ananya Kundu

Opening Remarks: Syeda Hameed, Global Advisory Board Member, Women’s Regional Network

Launch of the Report followed by a panel discussion on 
Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: Hide to be safe or flee

Discussants: Prof. Bilquees Daud, Jindal School of International Affairs; Hamsa Vijayaraghavan, CEO, Migration Asylum Project; and Nitya Ramakrishnan, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Moderator: Rita Manchanda, Consultant, Peace & Security in South Asia

(Collaboration: Women’s Regional Network)
 

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Great Cases Series Discussion 3

Decoding Defection

Speaker: Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

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

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

Speakers: Shri Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, South Africa and Namibia and former Ambassador to Egypt and Nepal; and Mr. Cedrick Crowley, Acting High Commissioner of South Africa

Discussant: Dr. John Cherian, former Foreign Affairs Editor, Frontline

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Trustee, IIC

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

By Elia Cecino, award-winning young pianist from Italy

The artist will present a programme of works by Frederic Chopin; Franz Liszt; O. Sciortino; and Johannes Brahms

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

Hindustani Vocal Recital

By Dr Sarita Pathak Yajurvedi from Delhi, disciple of Sulochana Brahaspati

 

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Kathak Recital

By Sinjini Kulkarni from Delhi, granddaughter and disciple of late Pt.Birju Maharaj.

Sarod Recital

By Mayukh Gangopadhyay from Kolkata, a disciple of Shri Sohom Chatterjee, Dr. Troilee Dutta, and Pandit Abhik Mukherjee.

 

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Sattriya Duet Recital

By Dipjyoti Das and  Dipankar Arandhara from Assam ,disciple of Ramkrishna Talukdar, Boby Rani Talukdar and Dolly Rani Talukdar