Lifestyle and Liver

Speaker: Dr. Ajay Kumar, Chairman and Head of Department, BLK-Max Institute of Digestive & Liver Diseases, Chairman – Pan Max – Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Liver like the heart, kidney, and lungs is a vital organ of the human body. Thus to keep the body healthy, it is important to also keep the liver healthy. For this, it is important to be aware of and practice what is good for the body. Liver diseases are on the rise in India and across the world. A large number of these diseases can be prevented, if we practice the right lifestyle, consume clean water, nutritious food & practice selective prevention by immunization.

Dr. Ajay Kumar has wide knowledge and experience in this field. He will reflect upon the importance of all the issues which impact our liver and thus impact our body's health and well-being.
 

A talk by Dr. Jahnavi Phalkey, filmmaker and historian of science and technology, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru

And In Conversation with Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, former Indian Ambassador to Greece and Cuba, Science Diplomacy Fellow, RIS

Chair: Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan

Nothing to See Here: Situating the Study of Nagpur Bhosle Architecture within Indian Heritage and History
Illustrated lecture by Dr. Cathleen Cummings, Associate Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

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

When the 1904 Ancient Monuments Preservation Act was passed, the temples of the Bhosle family of Nagpur were little more than a century old. Many were still “living sites”, rather than archaeological monuments no longer in active use. The Act, although making provision for Hindu temples still in worship, was overarchingly concerned with the discovery, classification, and preservation of India’s deep historical past. To the present day, almost all of the eighteenth and early nineteen-century temples and wadas if Nagpur remain neglected: it is not under the protection of any heritage “register”; is unknown even to many Nagpurkars; and has been largely left unstudied by historians of art and architecture. As a case study, this presentation explores some of the key ideas affecting our classifications of “heritage”, “history”, “monument”, and “living”, site in India
 

The Arab Spring that Was and Wasn’t 

By K.P. Fabian (ICWA & Macmillan Education, New Delhi: 2022)

Discussants: Amb. T.C. A. Raghavan, former diplomat and Director General, Indian Council for World Affairs; Amb. Talmiz Ahmad, former diplomat, Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation and author; and Amb. K.P. Fabian, author of the book

Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl
 

Panelists: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Studies Programme at Gateway House, author of Indo-Myanmar Relations and former Indian Ambassador to Myanmar and Mexico and High Commissioner to Kenya, South Africa and Lesotho; Shri Kallol Bhattacharjee, Senior Assistant Editor, The Hindu, author of The Great Game in Afghanistan: Rajiv Gandhi, Gen. Zia and the Unending War; and Mr. Jaffarullah, Founding Member, Rohingya Human Rights Initiative who is presently a teacher at The National Institute of Open Schooling

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University and former diplomat

Myanmar is experiencing a time of trouble following the coup d’état carried out by the military on 1^st February 2021 after the party it supported lost the election to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi whose party won the election. Since then the military has used brutal violence to put down resistance to its regime. So far, the international community, including the UN Security Council has failed to assist Myanmar in restoring democracy

Discussion on the World Health Organisation report

Panelists: Prof. R. Srinivasa Murthy, former Professor and Head, Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru and Chief Editor, World Health Report, 2001; Prof. B.N. Gangadhar, former Professor, Head & Director, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, and Board of Governors, NMC; Prof. Pratima Murthy, Professor, Head & Director, NIMHANS, Bengaluru; Prof. Atul Ambekar, Professor of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence: WHO, Geneva, Strategic Advisory Group, UN; and Dr. Koushik Sinha Deb, Additional Professor, Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Digital Psychiatry, mHealth and eHealth; and Dr. Andrea Bruni, advisor, Mental Health, SERO, WHO, New Delhi

Moderator: Dr. Sudhir Khandelwal, Senior Consultant in Psychiatry, Holy Family Hospital, New Delhi and formerly Head, Dept. of Psychiatry and Chief, National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

The World Health Report 2022 is an important document on the status of mental health in the world, disability caused by mental illnesses and substance and alcohol abuse, governmental and public response etc. 

Speaker: Shri Ritesh Taksande, Faculty Member, Centre for Open Learning, Film & Television Institute of India, Pune

Chair: Suhas Borker, Convener, Jan Prasar and Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)

The rapidly changing technology poses serious challenges to the way we live our daily lives…The impact of the smartphone on how we consume news has been mind boggling. Not only can we receive instant updates, read news stories and articles, and watch video on the go – as a story unfolds in real time, mobile journalism has also ‘disrupted’ the way news is produced and reported. In the post smartphone scenario, with virtually all tools of newsgathering in their pockets, millions of reporters have popped up all over the world while fake news, misinformation and planted distortions are putting the basic journalistic standards of truth, ethics, integrity and accuracy under threat.

(Collaboration: Jan Prasar)

Temple as Custodians of Cultural Heritage in the Context of Braj

Illustrated lecture by Sushant Bharati, Conservation Architect and Researcher based in Delhi. He is currently working on a research project based on the temple architecture of Braj

Chair: Shri B.M. Pande

Braj region is the celebrated cultural landscape associated with Lord Krishna. The region is marked by many temples which have carefully preserved various traditional arts, crafts, music, etc. in the form of devotional practices for many centuries, which are offered to the deities throughout the year. The lecture will focus on such practices which are safeguarding the local cultural heritage of the region

Speaker: Tony Joseph, journalist, former Editor, BusinessWorld and author of the best-selling book Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestor and Where we Came From

Chair: Ganesh Devy, Literary critic, activist and Chairperson, People’s Linguistic Survey of India

In the last few years, our understanding of how the world got peopled in prehistory has changed significantly, thanks mostly to recent advances in the discipline of Population Genetics. All large population groups, we know now, are the result of multiple migrations that lasted centuries and, in some cases millennia, in the ancient past, each of them driven by historical forces. This context is crucial to understanding how four large, prehistoric migrations contributed to shaping Indian demography as it is today.

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)
 

Coordinator: Ms Anu Jindal
 
Waking up to Disordered Sleep

Speaker: Dr. Vivek Nangia, Principal Director and Head, Institute of Respiratory, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Max Hospital, New Delhi
 
Moderator: Ms Anu Jindal
 
While we have known about the science of sleep since time immemorial, most research in modern medicine with regards to our sleep has occurred only in the last 3-4 decades. Although an individual spends nearly one-third of his/her time sleeping, very little attention is paid to monitoring sleeping patterns. With increasing obesity, sedentary lifestyle and abnormal timings of sleeping, sleep disorders are becoming more and more common. The number of hours that is required in sleeping, what timings to follow and what impact these have on our lives need to be understood. Dr. Vivek Nangia will address some of these issues and highlight how a good sleep can transform our health