BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

22 April 2024, 06:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

Nadistutti: Poems
By Lakshmi Kannan (Authorspress: 2024)

Discussants: Prof. Payal Nagpal, Professor, Dept. of English, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Prof. Rekha Sethi, Professor, Indraprastha Collge for Women, University of Delhi, author, editor and translator; Ms Sanjula Sharma, poet, researcher and writer; and Dr. Laskhmi Kannan, bilingual novelist, poet, short story writer, critic and translator and author of this volume of poems

Chair: Prof. Malashri Lal, author and Convenor, English Board, Sahitya Akademi

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

15 April 2024, 06:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

Integration of Bharat: Political and Constitutional Perspective

By Yashraj Singh Bundela (Mohan Law House: 2023)

Discussants: Shri Justice Hemant Gupta, former Judge, Supreme Court of India; Ms Madhavi Goradia Divan, former Additional Solicitor General, Supreme Court of India; and Shri Yashraj Singh Bundela, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Balbir Punj, journalist and columnist

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

12 April 2024, 06:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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

 

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

10 April 2024, 06:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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

 

 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

03 April 2024, 06:00 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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

Two Year Review of War in Ukraine: Nuclear Amber Lights Flashing?

11 March 2024, 05:30 pm
Two Year Review of War in Ukraine: Nuclear Amber Lights Flashing?
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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
 

Forthcoming American Presidential Election & India-US Relations

28 March 2024, 06:00 pm
Forthcoming American Presidential Election & India-US Relations
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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)
 

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

27 March 2024, 05:30 pm
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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)

THE WORKING OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION: STORIES AND SCHOLARSHIP

20 March 2024, 06:30 pm
THE WORKING OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION: STORIES AND SCHOLARSHIP
Programme Type
Talks
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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)

Global Warming and Climate Change

16 March 2024, 04:00 pm
Global Warming and Climate Change
Programme Type
Discussions
Venue
Conference Room II, IIC main building

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)