12 November* commemorates the day on which Mahatma Gandhi made his first and only live broadcast on All India Radio in 1947 and addressed more than two lakhs of refugees at a camp in Kurukshetra from Broadcasting House, New Delhi. Since 2000, this day is commemorated as Public Service Broadcasting Day

10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza
Commemoration

11:15 to 12:15 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium 
Discussion 

Usha Mehta’s tryst with freedom on radio: reliving the moments with S. N. Sahu, former Press Secretary to President K. R. Narayanan.

During the Quit India Movement, Usha Mehta was arrested on 12 November 1942 and the Underground Radio Transmitter confiscated in Bombay

Discussion on Public Service Broadcasting and Speaking Truth to Power
Lead Presentation: Suhas Borker, Mediaperson and Trustee, IIC

*Note: As 12 November is Deepavali and a holiday, the commemoration is being held on 10 November

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Baradari; and Jan Prasar)
 

Panelists: Navina Najat Haider, Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator-in-Charge, Department of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;  Mitch Abdul Karim Crites, American art historian, who has lived and worked in India for more than fifty years; and Abhinav Goswami from Vrindavan, a trained archaeologist, photographer and temple priest

Moderator: Pramod K.G., curator, author and the co-founder of Eka Archiving Services

Organised in collaboration with Mapin Publishing to mark the recent publication of JALI- Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture by Navina Najat Haidar
 

Sattriya Recital

By Dimple Saikia from Assam, disciple of Guru Gobinda Saikia

At 19:00 
Bharatanatyam Recital

By Raktim Chanda from Kolkata, disciple of Shri P.T. Narendran   
 

Speakers: Dr Trilochan Mahapatra, former Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research; Shri Sompal Singh Shastri, former Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Dr. George John, former Vice Chancellor, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi

Chair: Dr. Siraj Hussain, Advisor, Food Processing
 

World Upside Down: India Recalibrates its Geopolitics

By Sujan R.Chinoy (HarperCollins India: 2023)

Discussants: Prof. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, Delhi; Amb. Sujan R.Chinoy, Director General, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses and author of the book

Moderator: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
 

The evening presents new perspectives and directions in the traditional art form of Dhrupad, with new compositions and bandishes with a special focus on reviving the poetry and literary works of the great saint poets

Dhrupad Vocal Recital

By Shilpa Shankar Narain, disciple of the Gundecha Brothers and Shri Sanjeev Jha
Accompanist: Dr. Ankit Parekh on the pakhawaj

Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Jugalbandhi

By Dhrupad Bandhu – Sanjeev Kumar Jha and Manish Kumar, who have trained in the Dagarvaani style of Dhrupad
 
 Accompanied by Roman Das on the pakhawaj 

Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire
by Seema Alavi
 

Speakers: Prof. Pallavi Raghavan, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University ; Prof. Nishat Zaidi, Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia and Prof. Seema Alavi, Professor, Ashoka University & Author of the book 
   

Chair: Prof. Farhat Hasan, Professor, University of Delhi