Welcome Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Introduction of the Conference: Dr. Anindita Balslev, Founder, Forum for Cross Cultural Conversation

Opening Remarks: Dr. Karan Singh

Speakers: Amb. Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Interim Director, Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University; Ms Lalitha Kumaramangalam, Member, Bharatiya Janata Party and former Chairperson, the National Commission for Women; Amb. Syed Akbaruddin, Dean, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad and former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations; and Dr. Ashis Nandy, public intellectual, political psychologist and social theorist

(Collaboration: Forum for Cross Cultural Conversation)
 

NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Civil War in Myanmar: Impact on North East and Act East

Panelists: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador to Myanmar; Maj. Gen. (retd.) Vinay Bhatnagar, former BGS 3 Corps; and Shri Angshuman Choudhury, Associate Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

The civil war in Myanmar has been raging for 30 month. Fighting in the border areas has resulted in refugees, drug-smuggling and insurgent groups travelling across into Northeast India. This created problems of law and order. The panel will discuss these and other issues

Speakers: Ms Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu; Shri Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation; and Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador and Distinguished Fellow, Gateway House, Mumbai

Moderator: Prof. C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute

At the very moment when the BRICS forum appears to gain much global traction, its internal contradiction and external challenges become sharper. The panel will review the outcomes from the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa and will assess its prospects 
 

The Pollen Waits on Tiptoe: Selected Poems

By Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre; English translation by Madhav Ajjampur (Manipal Universal Press; 2022)

Discussants: Dr. H.S. Shivaprakash; Ms Smitha Sehgal; and Shri Madhav Ajjampur, translator of the book of poems

Chair: Shri Suhas Borker, Trustee, IIC
 

Photographs by Bindi Sheth

Inauguration by Shri Dadi D. Pudumjee, Founder, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust on Friday, 25 August 2023 at 18:30

(Collaboration: Parzor; Museo Camera; and India Photo Archive)

Full day break-up of Khabar Lahariya programme

Organised in collaboration with Chambal Media with the support of Google News Initiative

The day-long programme includes an exhibition of photographs; panel discussions on “Voices from the Margins”; “Behind the Scenes: Reclaiming Public Spaces, Offline & Online”; “Next Generation Storytellers”; and “The Future of Indian Media”. The programme also includes an expert talk on “”Building a Company with Diversity and Inclusion”; screening of a film “Meelon Door” – a film on migration and its impact on women; and closes with Bundeli Folk Songs presented by Neha Rathore and troupe
 

Bhakti in Music: The North and South Perspectives

Vidya Shah, well-known vocalist, writer and researcher on music will be in conversation with Subhadra Desai and Sudha Raghuraman

Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal Hinterlands to Raisina Hill 

By Kasturi Ray (Rupa Publications India: 2023)

Speakers: Sh. Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, Author & National Vice President, BJP; Sh. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Journalist, Author & Playwright; Ms. Kasturi Ray, Author of the book

Chair: Amb. Navtej Sarna, Author, Historian & Former Ambassador of India to US 

“There was Once a City by this Name”: Shahjahanabad before 1857

Illustrated lecture by Swapna Liddle, author and historian with specialization in the history of Delhi. Closely involved in the movement to preserve heritage monuments and sites. Dr. Liddle is associated with the Delhi Chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH)

Chair: Shubham Mishra

The talk will discuss, mainly in the context of cartographic evidence, the city of Shahjahanabad as it was before dramatic changes in the aftermath of the revolt of 1857, and the implications of those changes

WEBINAR

Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray

Pictures in Place, Bodies in Motion: South Indian Temple Murals

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Anna Seastrand, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota; author of Body, History, Myth: South Indian Murals, 1550-1800. Her second book, tentatively titled Trees and the Ecologies of Art in South India, reconceives the importance of trees in South Asian art and religious practice in light of their changing social, economic, artistic religious, and environmental ecologies

Chair: Prof. Vidya Dehejia, Columbia University

The talk brings together poetry, paintings, and movement. Dr. Seastrand argues that paintings link literature, legend, and pilgrimage to the somatic experiences of South Indian temple murals. The texts and paintings are dialogical, not copies of one another, but an invitation to speakers, hearers, and viewers to respond to their intertextuality in embodied and multi-sensorial experience.

Registration link:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_McHsgUsqQqaW-2RIBsoLUg