By Vandana R. Singh (Niyogi Books: 2022)

Discussants: Shri Pavan K. Varma, Former Diplomat & Distinguished Author; Dr. Sukrita Paul Kumar,  poet, critic and academician; Shri Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee, Editorial Director, Niyogi Books, New Delhi; and Dr. Vandana R. Singh, Associate Professor of English, GCG, Panjab University, translator, editor and author of the book

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Raza at the Centre de Pompidou

Reflections on Raza and the show

Talk by Roobina Karode, eminent art critic and curator

Moderator: Ashok Vajpeyi

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Why Should Countries Invest in Science?

Speaker: Dr. V. Ramakrishnan, structural biologist and co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 

Chair: Shri K. N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Churchill and India: Manipulation or Betrayal?

By Kishan S. Rana (Routledge Taylor & Francis: 2022)

Discussants: Amb. M.K. Rasgotra, former Foreign Secretary of India; Prof. Pallavi Raghavan, historian, International Affairs Scholar and Assistant Professor, Ashoka University; and Amb. Kishan Rana, former Ambassador of India, Emeritus Professor, DIPLO Foundation, Geneva and Malta, and author of the book

Chair: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Those were the Days: Tales from the 15th Finance Commission

By Ashok K. Lahiri (Rupa Publications India; 2022)

Discussants: Dr. Palanivel Thiaga Rajan, Minister of Finance & Human Resource Management, Tamil Nadu; Shri Sushil Modi, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar; Shri N.K. Singh, Economist and former Member of the Rajya Sabha; Shri Manpreet Singh Badal, former Finance Minister, Punjab; Shri Arvind Mehta, Secretary, Fifteen Finance Commission; and Shri Ashok K. Lahiri, former Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and author of the book

Chair: Shri Raghav Bahl, Founder Network 18 and Bloomberg Quint

Fit at Any Age: A Practitioner’s Guide
By Air Marshal (Retd.) P.V. Iyer, AVSM, VSM (Bloomsbury India: 2022)
 
The author will be in conversation with Shri Rajiv Mehrishi, former Comptroller and Auditor General of India; and Shri Shekhar Gupta, journalist and author
 
(Collaboration: Bloomsbury India)
 

The Logic of Dreams

By Madhu Tandon (Speaking Tiger: 2022)

The author, Madhu Tandon will be in conversation with Dr. Jyotsna Singh, filmmaker and artist

Madhu Tandon has over four decades of experience studying dreams. She is the author of Faith & Fire: A Way Within (1997), Dreams & Beyond: Finding Your Way in the Dark (2009) and Hemis: A Novel (2018). She has also conducted dream workshops, written articles on dreams and contributed short stories to anthologies.
 

Living in Truth: The Gandhian Paradigm

Discussion on the forthcoming book by Ramin Jahanbegloo

Speakers: Ramin Jahanbegloo and Pooja Sharma, co-authors of the book

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Speaker: Dr. Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management, South Asia Terrorism Portal, Khalistan Extremism Monitor and Editor, South Asia Intelligence Review

Chair: Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies

(Collaboration: Society for Policy Studies)
 

Three books will be discussed

Journey of a Nation: 75 years of Indian Economy – Re-emerge, Reinvest, Re-engage 
By Sanjaya Baru (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Foreign Policy - War, Peace and a World Realigned 
By Madhav Das Nalapat (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Indian Sports – Game, Guts, Glory
By Chandresh Narayanan (Rupa Publications India: 2022)

Authors of the three volumes will speak: Dr. Sanjaya Baru, formerly Editor, The Financial Express and Business Standard, and former media advisor to former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh; Prof. Madhav Das Nalapat, India’s first Professor of Geopolitics and subsequently the UNESCO Peace Chair, Manipal University, and formerly Editor, The Times of India; Shri Chandresh Narayanan, independent cricket author, writer and broadcaster who currently writes for Dainik Bhaskar and is the author of World Cup Heroes

Discussants: Shri Vikrant Gupta, journalist and Managing Editor, Sport Aajtak; and Dr. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Visiting Fellow, ICRIER

Chair: Prof. S.D. Muni, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Ambassador and Special Envoy