Towards Universal Values for World Peace

By Rama Shankar Singh

Discussants: Prof. J.S. Rajput, former Member, UNESCO Executive Council; Prof. Chandra Mohan, Secretary General, Comparative Literature Association of India; Dr. A.K. Merchant, General Secretary, Temple of Understanding India Foundation; and Prof. Rama Shankar Singh, Professor Emeritus, Biology, McMaster University, Canada and author of the book

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh

Whispers of an Ordinary Journey

By Debasish Bhattacharyya (Nandy Books,2023)

Panelists: Shri Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, journalist and writer; Dr. Shubhada Kaul, Associate Professor in French & Francophone Studies, Department of Foreign Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia; Shri L.K Joshi, former General Manager, IIC and Shri Debasish Bhattacharyya, former Deputy General Manager, IIC and former General Manager, International Centre, Goa and author of the book

Chair: Amb. K.P. Fabian, Professor, Symbiosis University and Indian Society of International Law

When the Twain Did Meet

A light-hearted exploration of some of the ways in which aspects of western classical music have interacted with and influenced Indian music making

Illustrated presentation by Sunit Tandon

Korean Ink Painting

An illustrated lecture by Anupriya Roy, Visiting Faculty, Mass Communication Research Centre, AJK Jamia Millia Islamia

A two-day seminar on the major Hindi writer, Krishna Sobti exploring her fictional world through her novels and stories, her vision as it evolved in a democratic India through her prose. Presentations will be made by Nandkishore Acharya (Bikaner) Madan Soni (Bhopal), Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Shimla), Geet Chaturvedi (Bhopal), Sushila Puri (Lucknow), Rohini Agrawal (Rohtak), Ravi Bhushan (Ranchi), Yogesh Shekhar (Gaya), Vinod Tiwari, Leeladhar Mandloi, Mridula Garg, Savita Singh, Suman Keshari, Poonam Arora, Priyadarshan, Rashmi Bharadwaj, Balkirti Kumari, Anushakti Singh, Biba Sobti (Delhi & NCR)

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

Empathy, Intelligence and Love: Sita and Rama in a Miniature Painting from the Chamba Ramayana Folio (1760–1800)
Speaker: Prof. Alok Bhalla, critic, academic and poet
 
The speaker will 'read' one painting from the Chamba folio of Valmiki’s Ramayana in the Bhuri Singh Museum. The painting depicts a sublime incident that has rarely been imagined or interpreted. It offers a complex interpretation of the conversation in Panchavati Forest between Rama, Sita and Jatayu about the relation between kingship, nature and the sacred.
 
Thirteenth in a series of lectures organised by IIC-International Research Division with the support of the Ministry of External Affairs
 

Aaj Kavita features new Urdu poetry with readings by young poets: Charagh Sharma (Chandausi); Mohammad Afaan (Srinagar); Shehla Kaleem (Muradabad); Amardeep Singh (Patiala); Belal Sabir (Kolkata); Pallav Mishra, Safeer Siddiquie, Faizan Moquim, Abbas Qamar, Mohd. Aqib and Shahbaz Rizvi (Delhi)

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Rain in Bulandshahr: A Novel
By Achla Bansal (Authorspress,2023)

Discussants: Shri Sunit Tandon, well-known theatre and film personality and Director, India Habitat Centre, President Delhi Music Society ;Dr. Lakshmi Kannan, poet, novelist and short story writer; Ms. Mridula Garg, writer and poet; Dr. Amarendra Khatua, former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and former Director General, Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Diplomat and poet; and Ms. Achla Bansal, author of the book

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

Legends in One Frame: Portraying the Lives of Great Maestros through the Lens of Ace Photographer Avinash Pasricha

Text by Sadhna Shrivastav (Shubhi Publications: 2024)

Chair: Dr. Karan Singh

Discussants: Dr. Sachchidanand Joshi, Member Secretary, IGNCA; Ms Shovana Narayan, well-known Kathak artist/Guru and author; Ms Anita Singh, musicologist , arts administrator and Arts Historian; and Ms Sadhna Shrivastav, anchor and author of the book

Where from, where to, Music my Love?
A non-authoritative provocative exploration by Shankar Barua

Streams of thought with an off-mainstream India tilt will be shared, spanning the cusp of millennia from the past century towards the imponderable future, together with brief illustrative video-clips and possibly even a basic demonstration or two along the way

Shankar Barua, better known as ShankarBaba has been an on-again off-again musician and composer since his teens in the 1970s. The illustrated talk will focus upon the works, associations, and continuum surrounding the 7 CD-Gazettes he produced between 2000-2004 as The Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts (The IDEA), as well as the 10 annual iterations of the three-day Carnival of e-Creativity he curated in 2006-2016 under the banner of a private trust, The AeA; with the first three having each been produced in association with, and in, IIC