AI and its Impact on Journalism: The Road Ahead

Chair: Harish Khare, President, The Media Foundation

Panelists: Ritu Kapur, Co-founder and Managing Director, Quint Digital Media; Sunil Abraham, The Centre for Internet and Society; and Samarth Bansal, Tech and Media Reporter

Moderator: Karishma Mehrotra, South Asia Correspondent, The Washington Post

Open Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) Chat GPT has made the technology easily accessible to a vast number of people. But there are growing concerns as to how it will be used, especially with regards to journalism. Will it affect jobs and change the very nature of journalism itself? Should people be made aware about the risks posed by this technology?

IIC-The Media Foundation Dialogues is a series of conversations that regularly discuss issues challenging the Fourth Estate. Featuring prominent voices and highlighting different perspectives, these interactions are a platform to promote debate, analysis and understanding.

NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Indus Basin Interrupted: A History of Territory and Politics from Alexander to Nehru

By Uttam Kumar Sinha (Vintage Books: 2022)
 

New Facets of Early Historical Archaeology and Buddhist Art and Architecture

Essays in Honour of Dr. R.C. Agrawal
Edited by C.B. Patil and Vinay Kumar (Sharada Publishing House: 2022)

Speakers:Dr Himanshu Prabha Ray, Sanskrit Scholar; Historian & Archaeologist; Dr. Alok Tripathi, Additional Director General (Archaeology), ASI; Sh. C. B. Patil, Former Deputy Superintending Archaeologist & Editor of the book; Prof. Vinay Kumar, Asst. Professor, Banaras Hindu University & Editor of the book

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

Curator: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray
 
Coins of the Realm: A Numismatic Overview of Eighteenth Century India

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanjay Garg, Deputy Director, National Archives of India and Officer on Special Duty, Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, Min. of Culture, Govt. of India. Dr. Garg is the author of many books on numismatics including Monetary Foundations of the Raj (Manohar & Routledge, 2019) and the edited volume The Raj and the Rajas: Money and Coinage in Colonial India (Routledge 2023)
 

Chair: Dr. Shashank Shekhar Sinha

The eighteenth century in India saw a unique blend of political, cultural, social, and economic transformations. The decline of the Mughal Empire from about the beginning of the eighteenth century and the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Marathas, the Rohillas etc.), and a horde of Indian princely states, was almost simultaneous. The talk will focus on the symbiotic relationships between various coins and currencies – which were in a constant state of flux, vis-à-vis multiple sovereign authorities during major political transitions during the eighteenth century India

Free Trade Agreements: India and the World

By V.S. Seshadri (Oxford University Press: 2023)

Discussants: Dr. Harsha Vardhana Singh, former Deputy Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO); Dr. Mohan Kumar, Former Ambassador of India to France, Dean, Strategic and International Initiatives & Professor of Diplomatic Practice, O.P. Jindal Global University; Dr. Sanjaya Baru, former Media Advisor to PMO, commentator and policy analyst; and Dr. V.S. Seshadri, former Indian Ambassador to Slovenia and Myanmar, Senior Fellow, Delhi Policy Group and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Panelists: Shri Ram Boojh, former Senior Consultant, United Nations Environment Programme; Ms Parul Agarwala, Country Programme Manager, India at UN-Habitat; Shri Bhaskar Padigala, Head, Climate Hub, World Wide Fund for Nature India; and Shri Amit Jain, Senior Energy Specialist, The World Bank

Moderator: Dr. Anindita Sarkar, Professor, Dept. of Geography, Miranda House, University of Delhi

How can COP28 support technology transfer and capacity building in the Global South, including through financing and sharing of best practices and the promotion of south-south cooperation? While global policy frameworks like the Paris Agreement provide a broad framework for action on climate change, local communities and governments often have the most direct experience with the impacts of climate change. Effective adaptation and mitigation policies must therefore take into account local conditions, and be tailored to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of different communities

(Collaboration: The Geostrata; and Miranda House College)

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)

NEIGHBOURHOOD FIRST

Coordinated by Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Ashok K. Mehta

Panelists: Amb. V.P. Haran, former Indian Ambassador to Bhutan; Lt. Gen. P.S. Pannu, former Military Operations Branch, Army Headquarters; and Prof. Madhuri Sukhija, Professor, Mata Sundari College, University of Delhi

 Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

 The discussion focuses on India-Bhutan relations in light of the recent visit of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck to New Delhi. The visit follows the controversy that erupted after an interview granted by the Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering to a Belgian newspaper over a possible resolution of Bhutan China border dispute. The panelists will discuss this and other issues