Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019

 

Freedom & Sons Ltd. – The enterprise of free speech in a market of control

Speaker: Shri Goplakrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

WOMEN IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

 

Friends, heroes, scientists, women

Inaugural lecture by Dr. Gagandeep Kang, acclaimed biologist and Executive Director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute; and the first Indian woman to be inducted as the Fellow of Royal Societies (FRS), London 2019 

 

Opening Remarks: Prof. K. Vijayaraghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Trustee, IIC

 

A tiny fraction of Indian women born to relative privilege have taken up the space they deserve in many fields. But even in this thin sliver of society where women are educated and have some degree of autonomy, stereotypes limit, not entry, but progression of women in science. My encounters and relationships with women who support, inspire, challenge and stand by me are central to my life and work. Demonstration of professional competence and our cultural constructs appear at odds, and I have been fortunate having many women and some men who believe that women can and will get things done.

 

First in a new series of lectures organised in collaboration with Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The year-long series of lectures and panel discussions hopes to inspire budding and aspiring women scientists, doctors, and engineers and also to discuss key issues relating to the inclusion and advancement of women in science, medicine and engineering

 

HEALTHCARE IN INDIA

 

Regulatory Reforms for Meeting India’s Needs for Human Resources in Healthcare in India

Speaker: Dr. V.K. Paul, Member, NITI Aayog

Chair: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India

 

Second in a new series of lectures on Healthcare in India

 

The Second Prof M.G. K. Menon Memorial Lecture 2018

 

Vedanta Today
 

Speaker: Dr. Karan Singh

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran

 

Chameli Devi Jain Award 2017

For an Outstanding Woman Journalist

 

Followed by

B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture

 

Chief Justice: First Among Equals

Speaker: Justice Shri Ajit Prakash Shah, former Chairman, 20th Law Commission of India and former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court

 

Free Speech in India

Presentation by Steven Butler, Asia Programme Coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists

 

(Organised by The Media Foundation)

 

 

DR. C.D. DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018

 

"Great" Contemporaries: Akbar, Suleiman I and Elizabeth I 

Speaker: Justice Rohinton F. Nariman, Judge of the Supreme Court of India

 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

 

The ‘Philosopher Monarch’ was an ideal of Plato’s. The age of the Antonines in Rome produced five of them in quick succession. Thereafter, these three contemporaries more or less fulfilled the same ideal of Kingship. Their attitude to their subjects, and particularly to their minority subjects, is a lesson in the modern Constitutional Ideal of Fraternity, assuring the dignity of the individual, and the unity and integrity of the Nation

 

Creating a Scientific Problem-solving Mindset among Young Indians
 

Speaker: Dr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, Founder of  Infosys
 

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, Governor of Jammu & Kashmir, President IIC

 

The first lecture in memory of Professor MGK Menon, Life-Trustee of the IIC, eminent physicist and policy planner who passed away in November 2016

 

DURGABAI DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE 2017

 

The Moral Economy of the Elite and Why they Can’t Confront the Inequality that is Our Greatest Crisis 

Speaker: P. Sainath

 

(Collaboration: Council for Social Development)

TALK  ? C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00

 

 

Followed by

B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture 2017

Truth and Politics in Our Times

To be delivered by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research

 

Followed by a panel discussion:

Panelists: Yogendra Yadav, National President, Swaraj Abhiyan; and Ashok Malik, columnist and Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research Foundation

 

Moderator: Arati R. Jerath, political commentator

 

(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)