Opening Remarks by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC and Dr. Renu Swarup     

Grass Root Innovations: Prof Anil Gupta                                                                          

Lead Presentations by Chairman, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI); and Dr. Vipin Kumar, Director and Chief Innovation Officer, National Innovation Foundation – India (NIF)

Followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Division Director, CSIR - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT); Shri Manoj Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO, Social Alpha; Dr. Sanjay Saxena, Executive Director and Public Information Officer; National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS); Dr. Mrutyunjay Suar, Director General R & D and Innovation, KIIT University; and Dr. Shipra, IIT-Delhi

Moderator: Dr. Swati Basu

Innovators Success Story

Presentations by Grassroot Innovators                             

Moderator: Dr. Anamika Dey      

Jashn e Rampur marks the culmination of the project ‘Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India’ (2019-2022) funded by Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts and Humanities Research Council in UK and executed under the aegis of University of Sheffield. The day long festival focuses on the culinary heritage of Rampur with talks, discussions, film screening and performance

SCHEDULE:

From 10:00 to 11:45
Welcome Address: Principal Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi

The Journey of the Project Forgotten Food
Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Project Principal Investigator and Professor of Global History, University of Sheffield, UK  ; Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan, Project Consultant; and Dr. Saumya Gupta, Project Co-Investigator and Associate Professor, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi;

Heritage Foods of Rampur: From Translation to Revival
Rana Safvi, Project Collaborator in conversation with Dr. Jayeeta Sharma, Project Partner Lead, Culinaria Research Center, University of Toronto; Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan; Sadaf Hussain, Project Collaborator; and Shri Birendra Sandhu, Benazir Farms, Rampur

From 12:15 to 13:15
Collecting Oral Histories in Covid Times

Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley in conversation with Dr. Saumya Gupta and her students

From 14:30 to 16:00
Film: Dastarkhwan e Rampur: A Culinary Journey
Yousuf Saeed, filmmaker, Project Collaborator in conversation with Samina Naqvi, Project Collaborator followed by screening of the film

From 16:30 to 17:30 in Multipurpose Hall
Degh to Dastarkhwan: Qissas and Recipes from Rampur
By Tarana Hussain Khan (Penguin: 2022)

Launch of the book followed by an in-conversation 

Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan in conversation with Prof. Pushpesh Pant, historian and writer

From 15:30 -18:30 in the Multipurpose Hall

Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia
Rana Safvi, Anoothi Vishal and Prof. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley in conversation with Prof. Claire Chambers, Project Co-Investigator and Professor of Global Literature, University of York, UK

At 18:45
Jashn e Benazir
Rekhtigoi performance by Dastango Fouzia and Dastango Saneya
Introduction: Dr. Tarana Hussain Khan

(Collaboration: Team Forgotten Foods) 

Lead presentation by Dr. Martha (Marty) Alter Chen, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Senior Advisor, WIEGO Network, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Discussant: Prof. Aishwarya Pandit, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School

Chair: Prof. Indivar Kamtekar, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
Marty Alter Chen will speak about being a witness to the Partition and Independence of India in 1947 and the Partition of Pakistan and Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Marty grew up in India as a third-generation member of an American family who think of India as home. In August 1947, Marty was with her parents and grandparents in Mussoorie. Fast forward to March 1971.  Marty, her husband and their son Gregory were living in Dacca, East Pakistan and witnessed the Pakistan military crack-down on East Pakistan, before being evacuated. Marty will share her memories of the two Partitions and of living and working in both India and Bangladesh.

Recalibrate: Changing Paradigms
By N.K. Singh with select insights from P.K. Mishra (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC and former Foreign Secretary of India

Discussants: Dr. P.K. Mishra, Principal Secretary, Prime Minister of India; Dr. Bibek Debroy, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India; Dr. Poonam Gupta, Director General, NCAER; and Shri N.K. Singh,  economist, academician and author of the book

Kathasatisagar: Folklore of Jammu-Kashmir

By Raj Nehru and C.K. Gariyali (Prabhat Prakashan: 2022)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

Discussants: Ms Sudha Pillai, IAS (Retd.), former Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Govt. of India; Shri Virendra Qazi, Founder Chairman, Lalleshwari International Trust; Dr. Advaitavadini Kaul, academic and writer; Dr. J.M. Kaul, former Dean, Maulana Azad Medical College; Prof. Raj Nehru, Vice Chancellor, Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, Haryana, and co-author of the book; and Dr. C.K. Gariyali, IAS (retd.), co-author of the book

Crimson Spring: A Novel

By Navtej Sarna (Aleph Book Company: 2022)

Discussants: Prof. Nonica Datta, Associate Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. Debraj Mookerjee, Associate Professor, Ramjas College, University of Delhi; and Amb. Navtej Sarna, former Indian Ambassador to USA and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC 
 

An interactive session between Malavika Sarukkai, B.N. Goswamy and Sudha Gopalakrishnan

Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, Golconda: Conservation & Landscape Restoration

Illustrated lecture by Ratish Nanda, Conservation Architect, India CEO, Aga Khan Trust for Culture who leads inter-disciplinary teams undertaking urban conservation projects in Delhi and Hyderabad

Chair: Dr. Swapna Liddle

The presentation will focus on the decade long conservation effort being undertaken by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) at the 106 acre Qutb Shahi Heritage Park – where in the 16th /17th centuries over 100 monuments were built – mausolea, baolis, funerary mosques, amongst others. Conservation effort has revealed several of the principal structures were set in enclosed garden. With learnings from the Humayun’s Tomb conservation, AKTC has followed a craft based approach to conserve the necropolis
 

Edited by Francesca Orsini (Oxford university Press: 2022)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

Discussants: Dr. Narayani Gupta, urban historian, author and formerly Professor of History, Jamia Millia Islamia University; Dr.Shahid Amin, formerly Professor of History, University of Delhi; Prof. John Seyller, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont; and Prof. Francesca Orsini, Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and Editor of the book

An important volume demonstrating the enduring impact of renowned scholar Simon Digby's work, and its profound relevance to future research. In this volume prominent scholars of South Asia in the fields of economic, social, religious, literary, music, photography, and art history reflect on Simon Digby's method and contribution to their respective fields, and each offer an example of their method through the analysis of a painting, object, manuscript, literary text, or building from the Sultanate, Mughal, and colonial periods.

Writer, Rebel Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya

By Akshay Mukul (Penguin Random House India: 2022)

Discussants: Dr. Purushottam Agrawal, Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, scholar on medieval and early modern Hindi poetry; Prof. Malavika Maheshwari,  Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Shri Akshay Mukul, author of the book