03 November 2025, 05:30 pm
Delhi and Its Textured Pasts
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

The discussion will explore Delhi’s layered histories—its water bodies, landscapes, and colonial transitions. It will examine how water, land, and power have shaped Delhi’s textured pasts. They will also help us rediscover Delhi—its terrains, its rivers, its people, and its memories.

Inaugural Remarks: Shri K.N.Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Panelists: Prof. Amar Farooqui, historian and former DU professor and author; Mr Sohail Hashmi, a Delhi-based historian and documentary filmmaker and writes on Delhi’s heritage;

Mr Shubham Mishra, an urban planner trained at the International Institute of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (University of Twente) and the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi.

Moderator: Dr Shashank Shekhar Sinha, Publishing Director, Routledge (South Asia) Taylor & Francis Group