Release of the Commemorative issue of the IIC Quarterly: A Look Into the Past, 1974-2010 – A Volume in Celebration of the Centre’s Diamond Jubilee, 2022

To be released by Dr. Karan Singh

Conceptualised by Dr. Siraj Hussain

Slowing growth Caused Lower Employment: Can it be Reversed?

Lead presentation by Prof. Santosh Mehrotra, Visiting Professor, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath, UK, Professorial Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi

Discussant: Shri Mahesh Vyas , Managing Director, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy Pvt. Ltd. (CMIE)

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

The lecture is based on a paper prepared by Prof. Mehrotra on Structural change reversed: A comparative analysis pre-and post-2015 as part of the IIC Sectoral Planning Group on Agriculture

House of the People: Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy

By Ronojoy Sen (Cambridge University Press; New edition, 2022)

Discussants: Dr. M.R. Madhavan, President and Co-Founder, PRS Legislative Research; Ms Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research; Shri Raju Ramachandran, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; and Dr. Ronojoy Sen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore and author of the book

Moderator: Mr. Alex Travelli, South Asia Business Correspondent, New York Times, New Delhi

The Catalan and Spanish Sanskrit Dictionaries, updating Sanskrit lexicography

Speaker: Dr. Òscar Pujol, Director, Cervantes Institute, New Delhi; Sanskrit scholar who has published several books
and translations from the Sanskrit classics and two Sanskrit dictionaries - Sanskrit-Catalan and Sanskrit-Spanish dictionaries

Chair: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Prof. Michael Coulson, British Indologist and Sanskrit scholar was of the opinion that the existing Sanskrit dictionaries
were grossly out of date. The most important lexicographic activity regarding Sanskrit was done more than a hundred years ago. During this time lexicography has advanced enormously, but this is not reflected in Sanskrit dictionaries. Consequently, updating Sanskrit lexicography is an urgent task. The Catalan and Spanish dictionaries are one small step in this direction. This lecture we will present the new contributions of these two new works

Organised by IIC-International Research Division with the support of Ministry of External Affairs
 

Amb. Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary of India; H.E. Amb. Mateja Vodeb Ghosh, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia; Amb. Riva Ganguly Das, former Ambassador and Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs; Ms Elena Pérez-Villaneuva del Caz, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Spain; Ms Maria Rosa Sabbatelli, Deputy Head of Unit, Rapid Response Europe, Asia and Americas, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI); Ms Priyanka Bhide, Founder Director, Kubernein Initiative; and Ms Khushi Singh Rathore, Research Scholar and Author at South Asian Voices

In-Conversation with Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC and Director, WISCOMP

(Collaboration: The Delegation of the European Union to India; and Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace)

Speakers: Lucas Chancel, Sciences Po and Paris School of Economics; Prabhat Patnaik, formerly Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Pronab Sen, economist and statistician, Indian School of Public Policy; Dipa Sinha, Assistant Professor (economics), Ambedkar University; and Partha Sen, former Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi

Moderator: Suhas Borker

The discussion focuses on the limitations and difficulties of measuring inequality in contemporary societies, and in particular, how the collection and dissemination of inequality data can match up with on the ground efforts to address inequality and its corrosive effects on democracy and accountability

(Collaboration: Centre for Financial Accountability; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)
 

HER VOICE:Celebrating Surviving Trail Blazers of the Seventies Women’s Movement

An evening of remembrance of those early challenges, achievements and regrets as the few survivors of those early times converse

With Devaki Jain, eminent development economist and Founder, Indian Institute of Social Studies; Mohini Giri, former Chair, National Commission of Women; Kumud Sharma, Chair, Centre for Women’s Development Studies; and Suman  Krishan Kant, Founder President, Mahila Dakshita Samiti and Ms Devika Singh, Co-Founder, Mobile Creches

Participant and Moderator: Rami Chhabra, Pioneer Woman Journalist and Columnist on Women’s Issues and Founder-President, Streebal

Introduction and Felicitation: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

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

Myanmar Today two Years After the Military Coup

Panelists: Gen. M. M. Naravane, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM former Chief of the Army Staff; Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Ambassador of India to Myanmar; and Dr. Udai Bhanu Singh, strategic analyst and formerly with M.P. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

 Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

 Two years after the military takeover of Myanmar, the civil war between the military and the People’s Defence Forces assisted by some ethnic armed organisations has reached a stalemate with the collapse of the economy and grave human rights violations. The ASEAN five-point consensus has failed to take off as the military threatens to hold elections in August. India is actively engaged with the military in its national interest

Hazaar Rang Shaairi: The Wonderful World of the Urdu Nazm

By Anisur Rahman (HarperCollins India: 2022)

Discussants: Dr. Lakshmi Kannan, eminent poet and fiction writer; Dr. Akhlaq Ahan, Chairperson, Centre for Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal University; Shri Saif Mahmood, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and International Lawyer; and Prof. Anisur Rahman, bilingual writer, poet, critic, translator and author of the book

Two books will be discussed

The Making of Modern India and The Golden Lineage and its Legends

By Prabeer K. Basu (Shubhi Publications)

 Discussants: Shri Vinod Rai, former Chief Controller of Accounts; Shri Pradip Baijal, former Secretary, Disinvestment and former Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI); Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; and Shri Prabeer K. Basu, author of the book

Moderator: Shri Sanjeev Chopra, author