Release of the IIC Quarterly: Autumn 2025

Edited by Omita Goyal, Chief Editor IIC

To be released by Shri. N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

Forms in Continuum: Narratives in Modern Indian Sculpture

This exhibition brings together works by S. Dhanapal, K. S. Radhakrishnan, Navjot, Kiron Sinha, and Latika Katt, artists who have each reshaped the possibilities of sculptural practice.

Inauguration by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC 

The exhibition will remain on view until 14 October 2025, 11:00 to 19:00

(Collaboration: DAG)

The Nature of Nature – Earth’s Metabolic Disorder

From 14:00 to 15:15
 Exhibition 

Indian Women Farmers’ Knowledge – Living Diversity of Our Organic Farms
Welcome Address: Smt Maya Goburdhun 
Chief Guests: Dr Ajeet Caur, Co-Founder, Academy of Fine Arts & Literature and Ms Arpana Caur, famous Artist

At 16:00
Panel Discussion

Agroecology: Solutions for a Reset of Earth’s Metabolic Disorder 
Speakers: Dr Vandana Shiva, Author, Founder of Navdanya, Dr Andre Leu, Former President of International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements – Organics International, Dr Nadia El Hage, Former Head, Ecological Farming, FAO, Dr. A.V. Singh, Vice President of Régénération Canada

Venue: C.D DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

At 17:00
Panel Discussion
Food and Health: The Gut-Earth Connection
Speakers: Dr Arun Gupta, Pediatrician, BPNI, IBFAN, Dr Suresh Kumar, Pediatrician, CISSA, Dr Gangadharan, Ayurveda and Wellbeing, Dr Srinath Reddy, PHFI

Venue: C.D DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM

(Collaboration: Navdanya)
 

TO MARK MANDELA INTERNATIONAL DAY 2025
At Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza: 10:30 to 11:00
Commemoration Service
Songs by School Choirs from Delhi NCR

At C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium: 11:15 to 12:15 Mandela Katha Mala

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” -- Nelson Mandela, in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994.  

Message from the UN Secretary General António Guterres to be read by Mr. Darrin Farrant, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan
                                
Speakers: H.E. Prof. Anil Sooklal, High Commissioner of the Republic of South Africa; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Interactive session with students of schools from Delhi NCR
 Foyer outside the Auditorium

Madiba and His Struggle

An exhibition of paintings by students of Bluebells School International

Organised as part of Taking Gandhi to Children series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Baradari; United Nations Information Centre; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

An exhibition of sculptures by Vijay Kowshik, senior artist

Vijay Kowshik transcends the familiar confines of his glasswork in this exhibition, venturing into the sculptural bronze vision to bring his creative spectre to life

Inauguration on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at 17:00 hrs

Celebration of the Power of Non-Violent Action & the Life of Martin Luther King Jr

(15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968)

& Commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza 

From 10:30 to 11:00 in Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza 

Commemoration Service 

Songs by Choirs of Schools from Delhi NCR

From 11:15 to 12:15 in C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

Interactive Session 

Theme: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." - Martin Luther King Jr. (Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.)

During the Interactive Session a short film on Martin Luther King's Life shall be screened

Address by H. E. Eric Garcetti, U.S. Ambassador to India (tbc)

Moderators:

Shri Suhas Borker (Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

Shri Ramesh Sharma (Gandhi Yuva Biradari)

Students from Schools of Delhi NCR to participate.

This programme is part of the Taking Children to Gandhi series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development.

Gandhi-King Memorial Plaza was inaugurated on 21 January 1970 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and commemorates two iconic figures of our times: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Biradari; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

A storytelling session with music by Deepa Kiran

Deepa will present a bouquet of musical stories about the earth and car; stories from across India such as Saving a Way of Life from Telangana; Who will be Ningthou from Manipur, retold by Indira Mukherjee; Sparrow and the Banyan Tree drawn from a pan-Indian folklores

Release of the IIC Quarterly: Autumn 2024

Edited by Omita Goyal, Chief Editor IIC

To be released by Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

Khadi: The Fabric of Freedom, The Language of Fashion

The exhibition traces Khadi’s transformative journey across time from a tool of resistance to becoming a symbol of conscious living and modern fashion. An immersive experience, weaving together the historical, cultural, and contemporary narratives of Khadi. On display are digitized copies of rare archival photographs; khadi timelines; loom installation; different types of charkhas along with spinning demonstrations; and contemporary designs and the work of Centre of Excellence for Khadi

Conceptualised and curated by Centre of Excellence for Khadi, NIFT, Delhi; set-up by Ministry of MSME at NIFT, Ministry of Textile;  with Sunaina Suneja, textile revivalist, deeply engaged with khadi and the charkha 

Inauguration by Shri Manoj Kumar, Chairman, Khadi and Village Industries Commission and Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC on 18 October at 5 pm 

(Collaboration: Centre of Excellence for Khadi)
 

Commemoration of Nelson Mandela’s 106th Birthday

AT GANDHI-KING MEMORIAL PLAZA: 10:30 TO 11:00
Commemoration Service
Songs by School Choirs from Delhi NCR

AT C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM: 11:15 TO 12:15
Mandela Katha Mala

“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” ― Nelson Mandela, in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom 
 
Message from the UN Secretary General António Guterres to be read by Mr. Darrin Farrant, Director, United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan

Speakers: Mr. Cedrick C. Crowley, Acting High Commissioner, South African High Commission; and Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies and Trustee, IIC

Interactive session with students of schools from Delhi NCR

Foyer outside the Auditorium
Madiba and His Struggle
An exhibition of paintings by students of Bluebells School International 

Organised as part of Taking Gandhi to Children series that brings children closer to the enduring legacy of Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for equity, justice, pluralism and sustainable development

(Collaboration: Gandhi Yuva Baradari; United Nations Information Centre; and Working Group on Alternative Strategies)