Seminar on Bat-tala and Other Print Making Practices: From Re-Discovery to Revival

Panelists: Shukla Sawant, artist and academic; Yusuf, senior artist; and Dr. Tariq Allana, Associate Director, Art Heritage

Moderator: Dilpreet Bhullar, Editor and Researcher, TAKE on Art

Panelists: Amb. Riva Ganguly Das, former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh and Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; Dr. Constantino Xavier, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Security Studies, Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) and non-resident Fellow, Foreign Policy program, Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Prof. Sreeradha Datta, Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University, and non-resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore; and Shri Dipanjan R. Chaudhury, Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Economic Times

Chair: Amb. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh

Speaker: Shri Amarjeet Singh, Member, SEBI

The lecture will explore the regulatory perspective on developments in sustainability, the creation of Social Stock Exchange (SSE), and the pivotal role of SEBI in fostering transparency and accountability in the corporate sector

Chair: Ravneet Pawha, VP, Deakin University

BCF Annual Lecture

(Collaboration: Business and Community Foundation)

Discussion based on the Report by Rahul Verma, Fellow, Centre for Policy Research and Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ashoka University

Panelists: Aanchal Malhotra, historian and author; Hilal Ahmed, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS); C. Raja Mohan, Non-Resident Distinguished Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute;  Suhasini Haider, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu and Pinaki Chakraborty, Visiting Distinguished Professor, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy (NIPFP)

Moderator: Rahul Verma, Fellow, Centre for Policy Research

Do people in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh still share old cultural and civilizational ties? Have they been able to bury the past and move ahead? The Report is based on the 2022, Centre for Policy Research and CVoter project to mark 75 years of Partition involving a comprehensive survey of citizens of all three countries that was carried out between May and October 2022. At the panel discussion, the distinguished speakers will discuss the Report that compares the responses of citizens in three countries on multiple components: their opinion on partition, economic development and social progress, the position of women, political processes, populist sentiments, and trust in democracy and institutions  

Interpretation of Kabir, premodern and modern

Speaker: Prof. Jaroslav Strnad, senior fellow, Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, he graduated with a degree in Hindi and History. He participated in compiling the first Hindi-Czech Dictionary (1998), The History of India (2003), Textbook of Sanskrit (latest ed. 2023) and “Triveni: Morphology and Syntax in Early Modern Languages of North India: A Reader” (2023). In 2013 he published “Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindi: Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabir vani Poems from Rajasthan”. He is currently engaged, together with Linda Hess, in an edition and English translation of Kadir pads from old Dadupanthi manuscripts

Chair: Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Contemporart manuscripts interprets Kabir’s mystical experience as either non-theist (Nath-yogi view), or theist (Vaishnava bhakti interpretation), or philosophically monist. His mundane experience crystalized into his warnings (cetavanis), and attacks all types of orthodoxies, hypocrisy, false outward devotion, violence, egoism and greed. Was he a social reformer mobilizing against inhuman oppression and casteism? Did he try to induce harmony in the relations between Hindus and Muslims? He does not cease to attract interest in the modern world, albeit in a somewhat different way, than was the case of the Dadupanthis of the early 17th century. Each interpretation seems to highlight an aspect of his message that is relevant across time and space.

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

New Criminal Codes and their Impact on the Media

Panelists: Sanjay Hegde, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India; Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, senior journalist; Arghya Sengupta, Research Director, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy; Akash Banerjee, political satirist and YouTuber; and Jyotika Kalra, Advocate, former Member, National Human Rights Commission

Moderator: Maneesh Chhibber, journalist

Panelists: Naman P. Ahuja, art historian and curator, Professor of Indian Art and Architecture, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Dipti Khera, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Abigail S. McGowan, Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont; Mayank Mansingh Kaul, textile designer, writer and curator; Shukla Sawant, Professor of Visual Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Anita E. Cherian, Associate Professor, School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Ambedkar University Delhi; and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(Collaboration: The Marg Foundation)

Taken Away: The Ordinary Life of a Lama
By  Doboom Tulku (Bloomsbury India; 2024)

Discussants: His Eminence Ling Choktrul Rinpoche; Dr. Sudhamahi Regunathan, former Vice Chancellor, Jain Vishva Bharati University, Ladnun, Rajasthan, author and translator and co-author of the book; Ms. Narayani Ganesh

Organised to commemorate the centenary of Dr. S.R. Ranganathan’s entry into the library and information science profession in India in 1924. Dr. Ranganathan pioneered the development of tools and techniques for organising knowledge throughout his career as a Library Scientist in the last century. Today, AI is revolutionizing the way knowledge is organized and managed by automating the tasks of content classification and categorization. This Summit is an attempt to explore the emerging AI opportunities for better management of and access to the knowledge across all
spectrums of the academia and the industry.

(Collaboration: Sarda Ranganathan Endowment; and University of Delhi)
 

With Songmi Han, co-author with Casey Lartigue of Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter’s Search for Her Mother & Herself; Casey Lartigue Jr., advocate and activist based in South Korea where he is co-founder and Chairman, Freedom Speakers International; Eunkoo Lee, expert and advocate for North Korean Human Rights and co-founder and Chairperson, Freedom Speakers International; and Chanyang Ju, Freedom Speakers International

The two speakers, Songmi Han and Chanyang Ju will discuss living in North Korea and their lives there. The story of survival, resilience, and the pursuit of freedom against all odds. The evening will also include a special musical performance by Ju on the traditional Korean flute

(Collaboration: Korean Cultural Centre India)