India’s Experiment with Democracy: The Life of a Nation through its Elections

By S.Y. Quraishi (HarperCollins India: 2023)

Discussants: Ms Arati R. Jerath, journalist, commentator and columnist; Ms Neelu Vyas Thomas, journalist and former Consultant, Rajya Sabha Television; and Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India and author of the book

Moderator: Prof. Pushpesh Pant, academic, historian and food critic

Unravelling: Poems
By Rachna Joshi (Authorspress: 2024)
 
Discussants: Dr. Rita Malhotra, mathematician, poet, essayist, and translator; Ms Sanjula Sharma, poet, researcher and writer; and Ms Rachna Joshi, poet and reviewer and author of this volume of poems

Chair: Ms Rajni Sekhri Sibal, former Secretary,Govt. of Insia, writer and poet

Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood
By Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav (Penguin Random House India: 2024)
 
Discussants: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Datta, historian; Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan, former Professor, Centre for Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dr. Arudra Burra, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; and Dr. Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, historian of Indian political thought and author of the book


Chair: Shri Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, journalist and author

Panel discussion led by Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC, former Foreign Secretary of India; Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, well-known historian and expert on European and Russian history; and Amb. Rakesh Sood, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan and Nepal

Moderator: Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar
 

Panelists: Amb. Arun Kumar Singh, former Ambassador to Israel, France & USA; Gen. (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor, former Chief of the Army Staff; Dr. Surjit Bhalla, former Executive Director of India, International Monetary Fund, Independent Researcher; and Dr. Zorawar Daulet Singh, Adjunct Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies

Moderator: Amb. Surendra Kumar, Founder President, IAFA

(Collaboration: Indo-American Friendship Association, New Delhi)
 

Through the Prism of Time

By Rita Malhotra ( Hawk Press, 2023)

Discussants: Amb. Amarendra Khatua, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, and poet; Dr. Somonnoy Ghosh, Professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology and short story writer; Ms Mandira Ghosh, poet, researcher and writer; and Dr. Rita Malhotra, mathematician, essayist, poet, translation and author of the book

Chair: Shri K. Jayakumar, President, The Poetry Society (India); and former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Kerala

(Collaboration: The Poetry Society, India)

Great Cases Series Discussion 2

The Group of Companies Case

Speaker: Hon’ble Justice Sanjib Banerjee, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Meghalaya

Discussant: Varsha Banta, Research Fellow, Corporate Law and Financial Regulation

Chair: Arghya Sengupta,  Founder and Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)

A roundtable discussion 

Opening Remarks: Shri M.C. Gupta

Keynote Speaker: Shri Ashok Lavasa

Chief Guest: Dr. Vibha Dhawan, Director General, TERI

Panelists: Prof. N. Janardhan Raju, Dean, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Shri V.K. Modi, Chairman, Modi Group; Shri Sanjeev Chopra, former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration; Shri Ravi Singh, Secretary General, World Wide Fund for Nature-India; and Dr. Bharat Gopal, Director and Head of Pulmonology, Delhi Heart & Lung Institute

(Collaboration: Global Socio-Economic Foundation)
 

A Way Within: Seven Years in a Himalayan Ashram

By Madhu Tandan (Speaking Tree: 2023)

The author will be In Conversation with Arundhathi Subramania

i, Salma: Selected Poems
By Salma; translated by K. Srilata and Shobhana Kumar (Red River: 2023)

Discussants: Sukrita Paul Kumar, poet, academic and critic; Salma, writer, poet and author of the book; K. Srilata, poet, translator, academic; Chandana Dutta, author, Editor and translator and  Shobhana Kumar, poet, translator and writer