Mapping Sustainable Agriculture: Agriculture in a Slowing Economy
Mapping Sustainable Agriculture
Agriculture in a Slowing Economy
Inaugural lecture to be delivered by Dr. Ashok Gulati, agricultural economist and Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER); and formerly Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP)
Chair: Shri N N Vohra, President, IIC
First in a new series of monthly lectures and discussions on the Agrarian crisis in India today. Some of the issues that the series will address include problems afflicting the Agriculture sector; why Agriculture reforms have not succeeded; Agriculture and non-agriculture linkages; China’s agriculture model; politics of Agriculture; what happened to the second Green Revolution etc.
HEALTHCARE IN INDIA Crucial Gaps in Delivering Health Care
HEALTHCARE IN INDIA
Crucial Gaps in Delivering Health Care – What’s Done? What’s Ignored?
Speaker: Smt Shailaja Chandra, former Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and former Chief Secretary, Delhi
Discussants: Ms K. Sujatha Rao, former Health Secretary, Govt. of India; and Dr. Anand Krishnan, Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India
Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2018 – Spring 2019 Social Media in a Networked World
Social Media in a Networked World
Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2018 – Spring 2019 Special Issue
Edited by Omita Goyal
To be released by Dr. Karan Singh
Followed by a discussion
Women in Law in India
Women in Law in India
Speaker: Smt Justice Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court
Discussants: Shri Arghya Sengupta, Vidhi Dialogues; and Ms Liz Matthew, Advocate
Chair: Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna
Justice Malhotra will speak on her journey in understanding the legal profession in India and how that experience moulded women in taking stands and making judgements. It is also a platform to articulate how dexterously the instrument of law can be wielded by women to solve problems that beset our society
First in a new lecture series focusing on women in law in India
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY Social Divides and Diversity
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY
Social Divides and Diversity
Speakers: Ms. Yamini Aiyar, President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research; Dr. Sunil Abraham, Vice-President, Mozilla Foundation; and Shri Osama Manzer, Founder & Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Chair: Ambassador Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC
The session will explore how advances in technology are impacting on social interactions and human behaviour particularly in a country with strong traditions and deeply ingrained patterns of thinking. Digital technologies carry the promise of democratizing societies, empowering marginalized sections of society and opening up new opportunities for women. These trends are already apparent in India. However, there are also certain negative aspects to the use of these technologies which may strain the social fabric and even undermine the institutions and processes of a democratic state. The session will aim to address some these very topical issues and promote a well-informed public discourse with particular reference to India
(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY Vocabulary of The Digital
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY
Vocabulary of The Digital
Keynote Speaker: Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Panelists: Shri Abhishek Pitti, Co-Founder & CEO, Nucleus Vision; Ms Mahima Kaul, Head of India - Public Policy & Government, Twitter; Shri Dhruv Arora, Manager, Digital and Strategic Communications, CPR and Prof. Gagandeep Kang, Executive Director, Transnational Health Science Technology Institute
The focus will be on the new and sometimes arcane vocabulary associated with the new digital technologies, which only the expert and the initiated understand. Language becomes an instrument of privileging knowledge and limiting understanding. It is important that we de-mystify digital jargon, narrow the gap between technology and its understanding among citizens and societies. An effort will be made to unpack concepts such as algorithms, blockchains, machine-learning, big data and artificial intelligence and explore their impact in different dimensions
(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY The Future of Governance
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY
The Future of Governance
Speakers: Dr. J. Satyanarayana, Chairman, UIDAI; Shri Ananth Padmanabhan, Fellow, Carnegie India; Ms Chinmayi Arun, Assistant Professor, National Law University, Delhi and Executive Director, Centre for Communication Governance; and Ms Vrinda Bhandari, Advocate
Chair: Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna, former judge of the Supreme Court of India and Head of the Committee on Data Protection Framework in India
Second lecture in the series of talks organised in collaboration with NITI Aayog and Centre for Policy Research. The discussion would largely attempt to bring clarity into concepts like receptive technology and glacial government, response of regulators to the pace of technological advancements, era of blockchain and bitcoins, artificial intelligence, big data and forecasting
Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?
Will India and Pakistan ever have good neighbourly relations?
Speakers: Shri Gaurav Gogoi, MP; General (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor, former Chief of the Army Staff; Ambassador Kanwal Sibal, former Foreign Secretary and Ambassador to France and Russia; Shri Gurcharan Das, writer; Ambassador Pavan Varma, former MP, writer and columnist; Ambassador Sharat Sabharwal, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; Ambassador T.C. A. Raghavan, former High Commissioner to Pakistan; and Shri Saeed Naqvi, senior journalist and TV presenter
Chair: Ambassador Surendra Kumar, Founding President, IAFA
(Collaboration: Indo-American Friendship Association)
Strengthening and Deepening Cooperation and Strategic Partnership Between India and Africa
Seminar on Strengthening and Deepening Cooperation and Strategic Partnership Between India and Africa
Inaugural address: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC
Speakers: H.E. Mr Hatem Tageldin, Ambassador of Egypt; H.E. Ms. Gennet Zewide, Ambassador of Ethiopia;
H.E. Mr Pius Dunaiski, High Commissioner of Namibia; H. E. Mr France Morule, High Commissioner of South Africa;
H.E. Dr Hassan E. El Talib, Ambassador of Sudan; H. E. Mr Tarek Azouz, Ambassador of Tunisia; Shri Navtej Sarna, Secretary (West) MEA; Prof. Rajen G. Harshe, Visiting Professor of International Relations, South Asian University and former Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University; Prof. Ajay Dubey, Chairperson, Centre for African Studies, JNU & General Secretary, African Studies Association of India; Shri K. P. Fabian, former Ambassador and Permanent Indian Representative to FAO; Shri Vijay Naik, Consulting Editor, Sakal Group of Newspapers and Convener, Indian Association of Foreign Affairs Correspondents
Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, CFTV NEWS and Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies
Former Indian Ambassadors and High Commissioners to Africa and Scholars of African Studies in Delhi University and JNU will participate
On World Religions: Diversity, Non Dissension
A discussion on the book based on the proceedings of an Interfaith Conference organised by ICCR
Edited by Dr. Anindita Balslev
Chief Guest: Shri M. Hamid Ansari, Vice-President of India
Chair: Dr. Karan Singh, MP and President ICCR
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