Fitness Forever
Talk by Guru Vajradhara His Holiness the 12th Chamgon Kenting Tai Situpa
Moderator: Dr. Anu Jindal
The primordial essence of the mind is beyond limitation, it goes beyond being healthy and unhealthy. Both the body and the mind together define the health of an individual. Therefore it is important to have both a healthy mind as well as a healthy body
SUPPLY OF SWEETS
Dear Sir,
1. Sealed Tender is invited for the supply of items against the above mentioned category of the contract for the period 01 June 2023 to 31 March 2024.
2. You may quote for the items to be supplied as per Annexure-A, One Rate, without preconditions. All pages of the Tender form are to be stamped and signed.
3. Bidder can download the document and further amendments, from the IIC website (https://iicdelhi.in) and submit the same to IIC in a sealed envelope super-scribing on it “Tender for SUPPLY OF SWEETS” so as to reach “Purchase Officer, India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003” on or before 23rd May 2023 at 17:00 Hrs. Validity of quoted rates will be for 90 days.
4. Check list provided in the Tender form is mandatory to be filled by the vendor by attaching all the required documents as asked for. Rates will be reviewed and revised, every quarter based on prevalent prices in the Market.
5. Please note that the Centre reserves the right to accept or reject any of the Tender in part or whole or all the Tenders without assigning any reason, nor is it bound to accept the lowest quotation & to divide the same between a numbers of suppliers without any liability on its part.
6. Late, incomplete, conditional, false, fictitious tenders or Tenders without deposit will be summarily rejected. Samples as required for checking at the Centre will be supplied by the vendor free of cost.
7. All Tenders should comply with the provision of New Food Safety and Standards Act 2006.
8. Please read the detailed terms and conditions, which form part of this tender document at Annexure-B, as the same are to be accepted by the Tenderer.
CARPET CLEANING SERVICES CONTRACT
Dear Sir,
1. Sealed Tender is invited for entering annual service contract for above mentioned category of the contract for the period 01 June 2023 to 31 March 2024.
2. You may quote for the services to be rendered as per Annexure-A, One Rate, without preconditions. All pages of the Tender form are to be stamped and signed.
3. Bidder can download the document and further amendments, from the IIC website (www.iicdelhi.nic.in) and submit the same to IIC in a sealed envelope super-scribing on it “Tender for CARPRT CLEANING SERVICES CONTRACT” so as to reach “Purchase Officer, India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003” on or before 23rd May, 2023 at 17:00 Hrs. Validity of quoted rates will be for 90 days.
4. Check list provided in the Tender form is mandatory to be filled by the vendor by attaching all the required documents as asked for.
5. Please note that the Centre reserves the right to accept or reject any of the Tender in part or whole or all the Tenders without assigning any reason, nor is it bound to accept the lowest quotation & to divide the same between a numbers of suppliers without any liability on its part.
6. Late, incomplete, conditional, false, fictitious tenders or Tenders without deposit will be summarily rejected. Samples as required for checking at the Centre will be supplied by the vendor free of cost.
7. All Tenders should comply with the provision of New Food Safety and Standards Act 2011 and 2012.
8. Please read the detailed terms and conditions, which form part of this tender document at Annexure-B, as the same are to be accepted by the Tenderer.
SUPPLY OF CARPENTRY MATERIAL ITEMS
Dear Sir,
1. Sealed Tender is invited for the supply of items against the above mentioned category of the contract for the period 01 June 2023 to 31 March 2024.
2. You may quote for the items to be supplied as per Annexure-A, One Rate, without preconditions. All pages of the Tender form are to be stamped and signed.
3. Bidder can download the document and further amendments, from the IIC website (https://iicdelhi.in) and submit the same to IIC in a sealed envelope scribing on it “Tender for “Supply of CARPENTRY Material Items” so as to reach “Purchase Officer, India International Centre, 40, Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi 110003” on or before 23rd May 2023 at 17:00 Hrs. Validity of quoted rates will be for 90 days.
4. Check list provided in the Tender form is mandatory to be filled by the vendor by attaching all the required documents as asked for.
5. Please note that the Centre reserves the right to accept or reject any of the Tender in part or whole or all the Tenders without assigning any reason, nor is it bound to accept the lowest quotation & to divide the same between a numbers of suppliers without any liability on its part.
6. Late, incomplete, conditional, false, fictitious tenders or Tenders without deposit will be summarily rejected. Samples as required for checking at the Centre will be supplied by the vendor free of cost.
7. Please read the detailed terms and conditions, which form part of this tender document at Annexure-B, as the same are to be accepted by the Tenderer.
IIC - Relaying of grass at Rose Garden
Dear Member,
Relaying of grass at Rose Garden and the Lawn in front of Main Verandah will be started from 4th of this month. The work is expected to be completed within a month. Both these venues will not be accessible to the Members during this period.
Inconvenience caused is regretted.
Kanwal Wali
Secretary IIC
Book Discussion Group
Work 3.0
By Avik Chanda and Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (Penguin Business: 2023)
Discussant: Dr. Sajjan Singh Yadav, Additional Secretary, Dept. of Expenditure, Min. of Finance, Govt. of India; and Shri Avik Chanda, author, columnist and business Advisor, Founder-CEO, NUVAH & Director, International Literature Festival, CANTO and author of the book
Moderator: Shri Manish Khurana, Senior Commissioning Editor (Business), Penguin Random House India
Thousand–year Journey of the Kalacakra Tantra and its Reception from Qublai Khan to Xi Jinping
POSTPONED
Speaker: Shri Niraj Kumar who has spent the last seven years translating and writing a new commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra over five volumes, the first of which was published in 2022. A proponent of Pan-Asianism, he has authored Arise, Asia! (2003) and its sequel, Asia in Post-Western Age (2014). He is also a commentator on Sakta Tantra, and the author of Sriyantra and Geophilosophy of India (2014). He was Chief Editor of an encyclopedic work on the Himalayas, Himalayan Bridge (2015)
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
The Kalacakra Tantra is the capsule of Nalanda tradition. It was the last major Buddhist Tantric text written in India during the early 11th century. Though composed in Sanskrit, within a few decades, it influenced the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist clergy. This talk will cover the formative stages and the dynamics in transmission of this Tantra. This talk will cover the formative stages and the dynamics in transmission of this Tantra, and its reception by great political powers during the thousand years of its journey
(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)
Meet the Artist
WEBINAR
A Woven Life: Jenny Housego, textile historian, designer and entrepreneur in In Conversation with Maya Mirchandani, Associate Professor, Media Studies, Ashoka University and Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation
Emily Janet Housego, fondly known as Jenny, has helped inspire a generation of Indian craftspeople to raise their weaving skills to new heights of creativity and excellence. During her two decades in India, she has worked diligently with weavers and embroiderers to forge new ways of combining their traditional craftsmanship with contemporary designs. Jenny has revived ancient weaving techniques and simultaneously contributed to the livelihoods of weavers’ families especially in Haryana and Kashmir.
She is the author of Tribal Rugs: An Introduction to the Weaving of the Tribes of Iran, and of Bridal Durries of India. She has co-founded two successful textile brands in India, Shades of India and Kashmir Loom
Maya Mirchandani is an award-winning Indian journalist with interest in Indian foreign policy, South Asia, and identity conflicts, and the co-author of Jenny’s memoirs A Woven Life published by Roli Books in 2020.
(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)
Registration link: https://zoom.us/j/81279191477
Meeting ID: 812 7919 1477
Book Discussion Group
WEBINAR
There was a Girl I Loved Once &
Swayam Se Parichaya
By Pariksith Singh
Discussants: Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet, author and researcher; Ms Mridula Pradhan, poet and author; and Dr. Pariksith Singh, essayist, poet, story- Writer, translator and author of the book
Chair: Shri K. Jayakumar, President, The Poetry Society (India) and former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala
(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)