BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
 

The Age of Influence: Thoughts on Communication in Geopolitics, Soft Power and Branding
By Chaitanya K. Prasad, Zoya Ahmad and Vaishnavie Srinivasan (Notion Press, 2025)

Discussants: Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Dean, School of International Studies, Professor and Chair, Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament (CIPOD), School of International Studies, JNU; Nitin Gokhale, Author and Senior Journalist; Sidhant Sibal, Assistant Editor Foreign Affairs, WIO News; Capt. Alok Bansal, Executive Vice President, India Foundation and the Secretary General, Asian Eurasian Human Rights Forum; Chaitanya K. Prasad, Head Communication and Outreach, MOE, GOI & Author of the Book

Moderator: Manjari Chaturvedi, Author & Classical Dancer  

Chair: K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (4 vols.)
By Prof. Anvita Abbi, Shri Rahul Pachori, Shri Vysakh R. 
 

Discussants:  Dr Ajay Saini, Assistant Professor, Centre for Rural Development & Technology, IIT Delhi; Shimray Rose, Additional District Magistrate, NW District, Delhi; Prof. Anvita Abbi, Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University; Former Professor, JNU & Author of the Book; Rahul Pachori, Research Fellow (Linguistics), Kala Nidhi Division, IGNCA & Co-Author of the Book
Chair: Prof Uday Narayan Singh, Professor of Linguistics, Dean Faculty of Arts Amity University, Haryana 
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
 

Assembling India’s Constitution: A New Democratic History
By Rohit De and Ornit Shani (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Discussants: Prof Anupama Roy, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU; Dr Usha Ramanathan, Independent law researcher and human rights activist; Shahrukh Alam, Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Suhas Borker, Editor Citizens First TV (CFTV)

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
 

Aainakhana
Translated by Gauri Shankar Raina  

Discussants:  Dr. Roop Krishen Bhat, Eminent Short Story writer, Linguist, former Professor, CIL and former Director, ADULT Education, Ministry of HRD; Prof. Pankaj Bhan, Editor & Translator, Former Professor of English, DU, Shri Deepak Budki, Former Director General, Postal Services of India, Critic & Short Stories Writer; Dr. Gaurishankar Raina, Eminent writer and translator, former Advisory Board Member, Sahitya Akademi & Translator of the Group

Moderator: Prof. Payal Nagpal, Department of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, DU

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
Bharata before the British and other essays: Towards a new Indology
By Shonaleeka Kaul (Vitasta, 2024)

Introductory Remarks: K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Discussants: Prof. Meenakshi Jain, Hon’ble. Member of Rajya Sabha, Author, Historian; Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Former Chairman, University Grants Commission, Professor (formerly Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), educationist and columnist; Prof. Shonaleeka Kaul, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Former Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer, Yale University; Jan Gonda Fellow, Leiden University; Visiting Professor, Heidelberg University. Sanskritist and author of the book.
 

Financing Climate Adaptation in States: Challenges and Opportunities
With climate change aggravating and leading to adverse impacts on social and economic sectors.  India urgently requires investment in climate adaptation. The discussion identifies the challenges faced in implementing adaptation actions by states, the current sources of climate finance, particularly adaptation finance, the instruments and methods of current financing, and suggests possible ways of scaling adaptation finance for states.

Paper presented by:  RR Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow, TERI; and Dhriti Pathak, Climate Change Researcher and Analyst.
Discussant: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Distinguished Fellow CEEW, Former Additional Secretary MOEF& CC

Moderator: C.K. Mishra, Former Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India

(Organised by the IIC’s Sectoral Policy Planning Group on Environment under the Convenorship of C.K. Mishra)
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
The Dark Hours of the Night
By Salma; translated by G J V Prasad (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

Discussants: Professor B Mangalam, English professor at Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi; Prof. Swati Pal, Principal, Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi; Prof. Nishat Haider, Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Prof. Salma, Autor of the Book; Prof G J V Prasad, Translator of the Book

Moderator:  Prof. Malashri Lal, Convenor, English Advisory Board, Sahitya Academy and poet
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 
India and Africa: Legacy of Exchanges and Cultural Affinities
edited by H.H.S. Viswanathan and K.N. Shrivastava (Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd)

Welcome remarks: K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Discussants: Prof. Ajay Dubey, Chair, Centre for African Studies, JNU & Secretary-General, African Studies Association of India; Prof. Nandini C. Sen, Bharti College, Delhi University; Ruchita Beri, Senior Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation; Amb. H.H.S Viswanathan, Editor of the book

Chair: Shyam Saran, President and Life Trustee, IIC

Birds in flight
Translated by Rashmi Govind (Penguin, 2025)

Discussants: Prof. Sukrita Paul, Guest Editor, Indian Literature, Poet, Academic & Critic; Chandana Dutta, Author, Editor, and Translator; Prof. Anisur Rahman, Centre for West Asian Studies, JMI; Rashmi Govind, translator of the book

Moderator: Moutushi Mukherjee, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House

Combating War by Art and Poetry
By Mandira Ghosh (Authorspress, 2025)

Discussants: Sunit Tandon, Former Director, IHC; Prof. Radha Chakravarty, Writer, Critic & Translator; Prof. Swati Pal, Principal and Professor, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Dr. Rumki Basu, Former Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia & Poet,Mandira Ghosh, Poet, Author & Researcher & Author of the book

Chair: Dr. Amarendra Khatua, Former Secretary, MEA & DG, ICCR & Poet