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)

THE INDIAN REPUBLIC: LAW AND POLITICS OF SEDITION

 

Speakers: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, former Attorney-General of  India and President IIC

 

Prof. Neera Chandhoke, Visiting Professor, Centre for Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

Shri K.P. Fabian, former Ambassador and Visiting Professor, Indian Society of International Law

 

Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, Professor, Jindal School of Government and Public 

Policy

 

 

Moderator: Shri Suhas Borker, Convener, Working Group on Alternative Strategies

Organised in collaboration with Working Group on Alternative Strategies 
 

 

 

 

On Wednesday, 24th February 2016 at 18:00 at the C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium

 

 

 

 

 

'A - Neeti' (Injustice)

 

A classical dance presentation in Mohiniattam and Bharatanatyam 

 

The production is conceptualised, scripted and choreographed by Dr. Kanak Rele  

 

Lyrics for Mohiniattam are by Shri Kavalam  Narayana Panikkar, for Ekalavya from Mahabharata, for Nandanar by Gopalakrishna Bharati, Thirumoolar and Shankaracharya 

 

 Presented by Nalanda Dance Research Centre on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebrations 'Suvarana Mahotsava' (1966-2016) 

 

Cosmic Odyssey: Past Present and Future


Speaker: Professor T. Padmanabhan, Distinguished Professor, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Physics, Pune

 

Chair : Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

 

Spectacular progress achieved during recent years has allowed cosmologists to understand the evolution of our universe for a time span, extending from a tiny fraction of a second to about 14 billion years. This development has also unravelled some deep mysteries about the cosmos, especially as regards its composition. The lecture will describe how our current understanding of the universe is achieved and highlight some recent work which has the potential to solve these enigmas