Essays on Military Affairs

By Maroof Raza (Har Anand Publications: 2024)

Discussants: Lt. Gen. P.J.S. Pannu, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd.) former Deputy Chief, Indian Integrated Defence Staff (Operations); Shri Shekhar Dutt, former Governor of Chhattisgarh; Amb. Talmiz Ahmad,Ram Sathe Chair for International Studies, Symbiosis, Pune; and Shri Maroof Raza, well known media commentator on global, military and security issues and author of the book

The Shaping of Modern Indian Science in the Decades 1927-1967: The Historical Influence of the Pre and Post-Independence Periods

Speaker: Dr. P. Balaram, former Director, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bengaluru

Chair: Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Life Trustee, IIC and Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru

Pioneers of Modern Renaissance of India

Speaker: Prof. Pradeep Apte, Distinguished Professor, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune

Chair: Prof. Salil Misra, Faculty of History, School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi

Bose & Bose: Making of the INA

Speaker: Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and author, Chancellor of Ashoka University

Discussant: Dr. Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration

Chair: Amb. T.C. A. Raghavan, author and former Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs

Nationalism and Popular Cinema: Emotive Commitments, Transformations, Critiques and Alternative Imaginings

Illustrated lecture by Prof. Ira Bhaskar, film scholar and former Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, writer and journalist

Indian Classical Dances: The Healing Power
By Kanaka Sudhakar (Shubhi Publications: 2023)

Discussants: Guru Rama Vaidyanathan, senior Bharatanatyam artist & Guru, President, Ganesa Natyalaya; Guru Harish Gangani, leading Kathak artist and Guru (Jaipur Gharana); Ms Tripura Kashyap, pioneer of the Dance Movement Therapy in India, dance educator, choreographer and author; and Guru Kanaka Sudhakar, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi artist, choreographer and author of the book

Moderator: Ms Aparajita Sarma, Bharatanatyam artist, Coordinator, Sunaina

Is a formal land leasing framework the next Big Idea in Agriculture?

Panelists: Prof. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK; Dr. P.K. Joshi, former Director, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Office; and Dr. B.S. Sidhu, former Commissioner, Agriculture, Govt. of Punjab

Chair: Shri Siraj Hussain (IAS retd.), former Union Agriculture Secretary

Moderator: Shri Pravesh Sharma (IAS retd.), former Managing Director, Small Farmers' Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC)

Programme Details

A two-day symposium organised in collaboration with Ashoka University and the New York University, Shanghai

Inaugural Session

Welcome Remarks: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Introduction to the Conference: Prof. Tansen Sen, Director, Center for Global Asia, Professor of History at NYU Shanghai, and  Associate Professor of History in the Department of History at NYU

Lead presentation by Amb. Yashvardhan Sinha, former Indian High Commissioner to UK and Sri Lanka

Panelists: Shri Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy, Associate Fellow, Strategic Studies Programme, Observer Research Foundation; Vice Admiral (Retd.) Shekhar Sinha, PVSM, AVSM, former Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command and Chief of Integrated Defence Staff; and Dr. Gulbin Sultana, Associate Fellow, South Asia Centre, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses 

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