The Thousand Years War: Russia and the West.
By Achala Moulik (Har-Anand Publications, 2025)

Discussants: H.E Mr. Denis Alipov, Russian Ambassador (Guest of Honour); Prof. Archana Upadhyay, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, JNU; Sh Dipanjan Roy -Chaudhuri, Diplomatic Editor of Economic Times; Dr. Achala Moulik, Author of the book

Chair:  K. N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Gossips of Our Surrogate Story: Prose poems 
By Rajorshi Narayan Patranabis (Hawakaal Publisher, 2025)

Discussants: Sudeep Sen, Poet and Literary Editor; Shubha Dwivedi, Associate Professor, ARSD College, University of Delhi; Rajorshi Patranabis, Poet, Reviewer, Essayist & Author of the Book

Moderator: Kiriti Sengupta, Poet and Publisher

Working for an Equal World
Panel Discussion by leading women from Northeast

Panelists: Ms Patricia Mukhim, social activist, writer, journalist and Editor of The Shillong Times; Prof Rakhee Kalita Moral, Professor and Head Department of English and Chair, Centre for Women’s Studies Cotton University; Dr Stuti Goswami, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati; and Dr Purnima Burman, Indian wildlife biologist
Moderator: Sanjoy Hazarika, writer, journalist and human rights activist

Chair: Rami Chhabra, veteran Media person, author and social activist
 

Panel Discussion
Role of Women in Politics in India- Then and Now
 

Panel Discussion with Aparajita Sarangi; Bansuri Swaraj, Atishi Marlena, Sudha Ramakrishnan, and Iqra Hasan

Chair: Sonia Singh, former Editorial Director, Anchor, NDTV Group
 

Women, Work, Resilience and Peace
SEWA’s role in Empowerment of Women in India’s informal economy 
 

Keynote Speaker: Reema Nanavaty, Director SEWA

Chair: Dr Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK; Former Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Video Screening of “Swacch Aakash” followed by summary Remarks
 

Women in Architecture in India: Changing the Historical Canon
 

Illustrated talk by Madhavi Desai, Architect, researcher, writer and teacher

Chair: Mr. Abhay Purohit, President, Council of Architecture, Nagpur
 

Breaking the Frame: Women’s Shifting Roles in Media
 

Panel discussion with Malini Parthasarthy, Palki Sharma, and Neerja Choudhury
Chair: Sonia Singh, former Editorial Director, Anchor, NDTV Group
 

Navarasa: Kavya Sankalan 
By Anita Chand and Manoj Krishanan (Novoquill Publications, 2024)

Discussants: Mandira Ghosh, poet, author & researcher; Renu Hussain, author, poet & educator; Manoj Krishnan, poet & founder & The Asian Literary Society & Author of the book; Ms. Anita Chand, Poet, Administrator, Asia Literary Society and author of the book

Chair: Dr. Amarendra Khatua, former Secretary, MEA and DG, ICCR & p

Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India
By Shankar Ramaswami (Permanent Black, 2025)

Discussants: Purushottam Agrawal, former Chair, Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Uma Chakravarti, Former Professor, Department of History, Miranda House, Delhi University; Nandini Sundar, Department of Sociology, Delhi University; Aseem Shrivastava, scholar, writer, and ecological thinker; Shankar Ramaswami, Professor of Sociology, O. P. Jindal Global University and author of the book

Chair : Sh. Ajay Singh Mehta, Former Executive Director, National Foundation for India

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Reimagining India's Economy: The Road to a More Equitable Society
By Arun Maira (Speaking Tiger, 2025)