Speaker: Dr. Anil Seal, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Co-Founder, Cambridge School of Indian History

Dr. Seal’s talk will trace the genealogy of the structure of Indian politics in the late Colonial period. He argues that the major contradiction in the British Raj lay between the administrative expedience in a fragmented empire and the lucrative nature of a centralized state with a greater extractive capacity. He maintains that while the nationalist movements across India were initially mired in more local networks, they latched on these centripetal forces, aiming at inheriting this structure, and will analyse the transfer of power in the light of this broader picture

(Collaboration: Caucus – The Discussion Forum of Hindu College)

Idea of Order: Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe (1989-2022)
By Rakesh Batabyal (KW Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2024)

Panelists: Ms Nutan Kapoor Mahawar, Additional Secretary, ICWA; Prof. Gulshan Sachdeva, Centre for European Studies, SIS, JNU; Ms. Margit Koves, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies, Delhi University; and Mr. Rakesh Batabyal, author of the book.

 Chair: Amb.T.C.A Raghavan, Former High Commissioner to Pakistan & Former Director General, ICWA

Aniconic to the Iconic: Cult of Dharmaraj – The Folk Form of Hinduism
 

Speaker: Shri Jawhar Sircar, public intellectual and former Secretary Culture and CEO, Prasar Bharti

Speaker: Prof. Kath Weston, Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia and Honorary Fellow, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Chair: Prof. Rita Brara, Editor, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth and Visiting Professor, Ashoka University, Sonepat

This talk on the medicalization of finance is based on Prof. Weston’s forthcoming book, Capitalism on Life Support: How Scientific and Medical Imagery Shapes Finance, which explores the centuries-long interplay between accounts of the financial operations that underwrite capitalism and knowledge production about how bodies work derived from the fields of science and medicine.

The 4th CIS-IEG-Sage Lecture

(Collaboration: Contributions to Indian Sociology; Institute of Economic Growth; and SAGE)
 

Illustrated lecture by Ritika Kochhar, author, art writer, and founder of ArtRadio, a platform dedicated to engaging audiences with art history and culture through podcasts, masterclasses, and curated walthroughs

Chair: Shri Sohail Hashmi

This lecture will focus on the rich tradition of miniatures from Timur to Bahadur Shah Zafar II (focussing mostly on Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Mohammad Shah Rangila, Shah Alam II and BSZII), especially the mythological narratives, and masnavis, or poetic epics, under Akbar. Also the Gulshan Album that Nadir Shah carried away and the famous artists that worked in the royal tasvir khana. It will highlight how these artworks not only served as historical documents but also as expressions of cultural and spiritual imagination in the Mughal era.
 

Lead presentation by Prof. Rajinder K. Dhamija, Professor of Neurology and Director, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, New Delhi and Chair, National Task Force on Brain Health, Govt. of India

Discussants: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, former President, Public Health Foundation of India; Dr. Yuta Nemoto, WHO SEARO, New Delhi; and Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Chairman, Dynamic Coalition on Digital Health, Internet Governance Forum

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

WHO has passed a resolution in its 65th General Assembly on Intersectoral Global Action Plan on Neurological Disorders. India is also a signatory along with 190 member states. Further, India has taken the lead in constituting a National Task Force of Brain Health with neurologists from AIIMS, NIMHANS and other institutions as well as policy makers from the Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, ICMR, Social Justice and Disability and by Niti Aayog. The talk and discussion will discuss and deliberate about brain health and its impact on the Indian economy

Musaliar King: Decolonial Historiography of Malabar’s Resistance
By Abbas Panakkal (Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd, 2024)

Discussants: Dr Saleena Kuzhuppil Basheer, Professor and Dean, School of Law, Hamdard Institute of Legal Studies and Research, Jamia Hamdard; Dr. Syed Iqbal Hasnain, former Vice Chancellor of Calicut University; Prof. Pallavi Raghavan, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Dr. Abbas Panakkal, historian and author of the book

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University, Pune
 

A World Within: Tales & Triumphs of Growing up with Autism
By Kanha Trehan

Discussants: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; Ms Merry Barua, Founder Director, Action For Autism, National Centre for Autism, Activist, Trainer, Consultant; Dr. Rohit Verma, Senior Consultant, AIIMS, Delhi; Ms Neha Bhimwal, clinical psychologist, and Shri Kanha Trehan, author of the book

Chair: Dr. Shayama Chona, President, Tamana and former Principal, Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram
 

Speakers: Amb. Chinmaya R. Gharekhan, former Permanent Representative of India to the UN; Shri Sudhir T. Devare, former Secretary Economic Relations, Ministry of External Affairs; Shri K.P. Fabian, former Ambassador to Italy and Qatar; Shri Ronen Sen, former Ambassador to USA and Russia; and Prof. Anuradha Chenoy, former Dean, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizen’s First TV (CFTV) and Trustee, IIC

This is the tenth annual seminar in the series 'Keys to Governance'; the earlier nine seminars in the series were on 'Compliance and Delivery'(2016), 'Political Will'(2017), Constitution as Ideology' (2018), 'Education as Empowerment' (2019), 'Steel Frame' (2020), Independence of Judiciary (2021), Constitutional Morality (2022), Social and Communal Harmony (2023) and 'Free, Pluralistic and Independent Media'(2024).

The annual seminar is organised in remembrance of Shekhar Borker, 'Banana Boy' on the Indian postage stamp, private sector administrator, citizen environmentalist, and advocate of empowerment of persons of disabilities, who passed away in 2015 on 7 January.

(Collaboration: D. S. Borker Memorial Foundation)   
 

Speaker: H.E. Dr. Ali Achoui, Ambassador of Algeria to India

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi and Symbiosis University, Pune