Speaker: Anurag Seth, Principal AI/ML Advisor at Amazon AWS. He has more than 25 years of experience in technology and entrepreneurship across semiconductor chip design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), building and deploying state of the art AI (artificial intelligence) /ML (Machine Learning) models and applications across various industries. He is also the India Design Centre Head for Kawasaki Microelectronics, Senior R & D Director at Cadence Design Systems and Motorola

Chair: Apar Gupta, Founder Director, Internet Freedom Foundation

ChatGPT and similar “Large Language Models (LLM)” have taken the world by storm and surprised even some of its inventors on its capability to generate human like text across multiple domains including generation of software code and pin pointing security vulnerabilities in the software which many industry standard tools missed detecting! This talk introduces the core concept of Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and walks through the potential impact it is going to create and challenges there-in - from re-skilling needs to “responsible” AI!
 

Decoding and Delivering Public Health
 

Speaker: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, Honorary Distinguished Professor, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). He is the
past President PHFI and formerly Head, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

Chair: Prof. Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development
 
 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

Love, Loss and Lyric in Urdu Poetry

Speaker: Shri Saeed Naqvi

Moderator: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Mortuary Practices of the Harappans with special Reference to the North West region of India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Satarupa Bal, Assistant Archaeologist, Archaeological Survey of India who is presently part of the excavation team at the site of Purana Qila archaeological mound

A comprehensive study of the funerary practices followed by the Harappans in the north western region of India emphasizing on specific markers, so as to determine a pattern or variation in these practices and an indication to the probable societal way of life in the different periods of Harappan habitation in the specific region under study 

Screening of a film, followed by recitation
 

Film - Rumi in the Land of Khusrau
(26 min; 2001; English)
A film by Muzaffar Ali who will introduce the film
Produced by Ministry of External Affairs

Followed by
Recitations of Rumi in Farsi and English
By Muzaffar Ali who will recite the original poems and his own English translations

Interpreted in Dance

By Shivani Varma

Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2022 – Spring 2023 Special Issue

Edited by K. Srinath Reddy and Omita Goyal

To be released by Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman, IIC Editorial Board

Followed by panel discussion

panellists: 

Dr. Atul Kotwal

Dr. Sandhya Venkateswaran

Prof. Rajib Dasgupta

Prof. K. Srinath Reddy

People’s health is the best investment India can make as we move towards our future. This statement lies at the crux of all the contributions in this volume. The government has introduced programmes and policies for the development of the health sector; however, the majority still have unequal access to health facilities. This volume attempts to untangle the complexities in our public health system  by examining several  challenges such as tuberculosis, non-communicable diseases, mental health disorders, road traffic accidents, and importantly, financing, among others. 

Kathak Recital
By Minu Garu from Delhi, disciple of Pt. Krishan Mohan Maharaj

AT 19:00
Kuchipudi Recital
By Meenakshi Aishwarya from Coimbatore, disciple of Guru Smt Sreelakshmy Govardhan

China and the Emergence of a Global Small Hydropower Network, ca 1980s

Speaker: Dr. Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of History, Harvard University. A historian of modern China, his interests include social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, environmental history, and transnational history. Ghosh is the author of Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China (Princeton, 2020)

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

This talk explores China’s role in emerging global small hydropower networks of the late 1970s and 1980s. Starting early in the decade, Chinese small hydropower expertise and technology traveled across the Global South, and even made its way to the United States. China also came to play an increasingly central role in a host of ambitious international hydropower conferences – in places like Kathmandu, Nairobi, and Hangzhou. The talk will trace and contextualize this story, unpacking in the process how Chinese expertise was exported abroad and how it came to serve as a benchmark for global small hydropower projects

First lecture in a new bi-monthly series focusing on contemporary China

(Collaboration: Centre for Chinese Studies, Ashoka University; and NYU Shanghai)
 

Satish Kumar: Abundant Love

By Jagdish Rattanani (Triarchy Press: 2023)

About the book:

Satish Kumar: Abundant Love is the first in a new book series covering "long-form conversations" with global leaders who offer us perspectives away from the dominant narratives of our times. The first book covers insights, experiences and reflections from Satish Kumar, a Jain monk who became a follower of Vinoba Bhave, then went on a global peace yatra during the 'Bay of Pigs' crisis and later went on to found Schumacher College in Devon, UK, at the Dartington Estate, which has connections going back to Raibndranath Tagore. Jagdish Rattanani is the editor of the book series, which also seeks to make the point that listening, engaging and learning can come from meaningful conversations. To help unpack complex issues, the book celebrates 30 hours (and more) of conversation rather
than the 30-second soundbite.

Speakers :

Shri Arun Maira, Former Chairman, Boston Consulting Group; Former Member, Planning Commission

Dr. Saamdu Chetri, Executive Director, GNH movement of Bhutan

Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar , Former Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapith

Shri Jagdish Rattanani, Assistant Prof. SPJIMR ; Director, The Billion Press

Conceptualised by Dr. Ashwani Kumar

From 10:00 to 13:00
Workshop on Understanding the Basic and Common Cause of Back Pain
Workshop for IIC Members and staff to be conducted by a team of doctors who will address the most common causes of back pain, how to manage it through intelligently applied exercise-based physiotherapy

Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC

At 16:00
Back Pain: Do’s and Don’ts
Speaker: Dr. Bhavuk Garg, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Chair: Dr. Ashwani Kumar

Back pain is the second most common condition that affects individuals of all ages, causing discomfort and hindrance to daily activities. It can stem from various causes: muscle strain, herniated discs, and arthritis or spinal deformities. Understanding the underlying factors and appropriate management strategies is crucial for relieving pain and improving the quality of life