Children’s cultural film festival, a screening of the best films on heritage made by children across different schools in Delhi-NCR

(Collaboration: Heritage Education and Communication Service, INTACH)
 

Hindustani vocal recital by Meeta Pandit who will present compositions intrinsic to the Gwalior Gharana

Showcasing rare and exquisite genres such as tapp-khayal, tappa, ashtapadi, tapp-thumri, tapp-tarana, chaturang, the program offers a glimpse into the profound beauty and versatility of this illustrious musical heritage and its relevance today.

Accompanists: Pt. Shailendra Mishra on tabla and Ustad Kamal Ahmad on Sarangi

To Commemorate Martyrs Day 2025

(Collaboration: Sarvodaya International Trust-Delhi Chapter)

Kathak Recital
By Mayukh Bhattacharyya from Delhi, disciple of the late Guru Pt. Birju Maharaj

At 19:00
Bharatanatyam Recital
By Jhinook Mukherjee Sinha from Kolkata, disciple of Dr. Guru Smt Thankamani Kutty
 

 Indian Constitution @75: A Federal Democracy Perspective

Speakers: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Madan Lokur, Judge, Supreme Court of Fiji, Chairperson, United Nations Internal Justice Council and former Judge, Supreme Court of India; Shri Rajeev Dhavan, Senior Advocate, human rights activist, and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists; and Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Equity Studies, and former Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi 

Introduction: Prof. Balveer Arora, Chairman, Centre for Multilevel Federalism and Convener, IIC Programme Planning Group on Federal Democracy

 Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC

Concert

Presented by Advaita Crescendo Quintet

With Dr. Suma Sudhindra (veena); Federica Colangelo (piano); Ned McGowan (flute); Karthik Mani (percussion, vocals); and Laurent Peckels (bass)

Advaita Crescendo is a new ensemble that weaves the rhythmic and expressive threads of Indian Carnatic music with the spontaneous flow of European jazz. Their rich compositions and intimate improvisations reflect the essence of Advaita – the unity of diversity

Organised in collaboration with Italian Embassy Cultural Centre; and Embassy of Luxembourg; and Embassy of the Netherlands

Illustrated lecture by Brig. Ashok Abbey, a veteran climber, who has climbed extensively for over 43 years in the Karakoram, Great Himalaya, and adjoining mountain ranges who will retrace Galwan’s fascinating life, journey and travels.

With select photographs from the personal collection of Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Speaker: Dr. Janet Rizvi, Cambridge educated independent scholar who has specialised in Ladakh. Her two seminal books, Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia; and Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh are well-known. She has also written numerous papers and articles on Ladakh, Kashmir and the wider are of Western Himalayas.

Chair:  Amb. Shyam Saran, President IIC

Moderator & Host: Ms Ahtushi Deshpande, travel journalist, photographer and author of Speaking Stones: Rock Art of Ladakh (2024)

Time of Monsters, Time of Possibilities: Reflections on an Interstitial Era

Speaker: Dr. Amitav Ghosh, well-known writer, recipient of the Jnanpith Award in 2018, the Erasmus Prize in 2024 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Ours is an era of multiple intersecting crises and transitions - of geopolitics, financial structures, and, perhaps most importantly, of environmental and ecological regimes that are slowly but surely pushing the planet towards catastrophe. And yet, the paradox of this interstitial era is that it has also made it possible to contemplate, and even embrace, possibilities that were denied or rejected during the age of high modernity. This lecture explores some of these paradoxes and possibilities. 
 

Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Speaker: Mr. Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology and Under-Secretary General

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC