Dr. C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2020 Handcrafting a Sustainable Future – Challenge and Opportunity in a New Millennium
C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00
Dr. C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2020
Handcrafting a Sustainable Future – Challenge and Opportunity in a New Millennium
Speaker: Prof. Ashoke Chatterjee, former Executive Director, National Institute of Design, and Trustee, Prabhat Education Foundation, Ahmedabad
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
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
Moving from a 1941 contempt case brought against The Hindustan Times and through examples including that of Mushirul Hasan, in independent India, the lecture will ask if ‘the mind is without fear’ in India today
WOMEN IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Friends, heroes, scientists, women
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
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
METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY Valedictory Session
Metamorphoses: Talking Technology
Valedictory Session
Speaker: Prof. Arogyaswami J Paulraj, Padma Bhushan & Professor Emeritus (Research) of Engineering, Stanford University
Opening Remarks: Shri Shyam Saran, Life Turstee, IIC; Shri Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Niti Aayog; and Smt Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research
Chair: Shri N. N. Vohra, President, IIC
We are at the dawn of new era in Information Technologies, driven by the recent breakthroughs in Machine Intelligence, and supported by impressive advances in Computing and Communications. This talk will outline the history of Information Technology and its likely evolution in the near future. And, more importantly, discuss the potential societal impact of these technologies. The talk will then survey India’s record in developing Information Technologies and the opportunities for the country to become a significant innovator in this vital domain
(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)
The Second Prof M.G. K. Menon Memorial Lecture 2018 Vedanta Today
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
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
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
PROFESSOR M.G.K. MENON MEMORIAL LECTURE Creating a Scientific Problem-solving Mindset among Young Indians
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
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)