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

The Return of Prachanda: How will India-Nepal Relations pan out

Panelists: Amb. K.V. Rajan, former Ambassador to Nepal; Mr. Bhaskar Koirala, former Director, Nepal Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Kathmandu; Shri Atul K. Thakur, Nodal coordinator, India-Nepal Centre PHDCCI; and Ms Navita Srikant, Financial and Security Advisor and Analyst

 Chair: Maj. Gen. Ashok K. Mehta

 Nepal has undergone a long period of political instability. Third time Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda is expected to visit India on his second state visit this month. His government is backed by eleven parties including the largest, the Nepali Congress – not a recipe for stability. The panel will discuss how India-Nepal relations will play out

Release of the book edited by Syed Akhtar Husain and Md. Arshadul Quadri (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023)

The book will be released by Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Guest Editor, India Literature, Sahitya Akademi

Followed by a discussion with Prof. Syed Akhtar Husain, Professor, Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies; Dr. Md. Arshadul Quadri, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Persian, University of Lucknow and Vice-President, Institute of Indo-Persian Studies; Prof. Udaya Kumar, School of Languages, Literature and Cultural Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Writing the First Person: Literature, History, and Autobiography in Modern Kerala (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2016); and Prof. Ranjani Mazumdar, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007)

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division)

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