Great Cases Series Discussion 1: The Bilkis Bano Case

In Conversation: Advocate Shobha Gupta, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India in conversation with Naveed Mehmood Ahmad, Team Lead, Criminal Justice, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

(Collaboration: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)
 

Valedictory Session

Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC

Valedictory Address: Dr Karan Singh, Former Minister, Government of India 

(Organised by IIC-International Research Division) 

Programme Details

This two-day international conference delineates the journeys of scholars, travellers, merchants, musicians and painters across Asia for over two millennia. These speak of individual enterprise and innovation, and tell us about histories of interaction that have shaped our cultural landscapes and ways of life today.

Inaugural Session
Chair: Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC
Welcome Remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC
Introduction to the Conference: Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, IIC-International Research Division

Keynote Address: ‘Port Cities and Mobility in Early Modern Asia’
Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished Professor & Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

A discussion on Media Neutrality in Reporting Elections

Programme Details

The National Conclave examines the relationship between ethics, artificial intelligence and data ecosystem and the extent of their integration with one another and with society. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology brings with it not only new understandings of our processing and application of data, but also opens new worlds for exploration and new pathways for science. Data science provides the data and tools that underpin the work of AI, while AI provides the power to automate tasks, create new data, uncover new or ‘hidden’ information in data, and enable predictions and decision-making.

Inaugural Session
Remarks by Shri Shyam Saran, President, IIC; Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC; and Dr. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC

AI in the Industry: Factoring Citizen Centricity
Keynote Address by Dr. Shuktij S. Rao, Executive Director, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

Ensuring the Development of AI Based Intelligent information Systems for Education and Research
Keynote Address by Prof. Arpan K. Kar, Endowed Chair Professor, IIT Delhi; Chair – Corporate Affairs and Joint Faculty Appointment in the Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence (online)

Programme Details

A four day festival organised in collaboration with Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hindi). The festival focuses on the city of Delhi which has evolved continuously for four thousand years or so; the capital of kings and emperors from the ancient past, through its many avatars, from Indraprastha to Qila Rai Pithora, Lal Kot, Firozabad, Tughlaqabad, Shahjahanabad, Dilli, Dehli, Delhi and New Delhi. The festival includes talks, discussions, and performances.

The Indentured and their Route : A Relentless Quest for Identity

By Bhaswati Mukherjee( Rupa Publications; 2023)  

Discussants: Amb. Shyam Saran, President, IIC; Amb. Pavan K. Varma, former diplomat and author; Amb. Rakesh Sood, former Diplomat and Distinguished Fellow, CSDR; and Amb. Bhaswati Mukherjee, former diplomat, President, India Habitat Centre and author of the book

The Quest for Modern Assam: A History 1942-2000
 

By Arupjyoti Saikia (Penguin Allen Lane; 2023)           
 
Discussants: Shri Madan Prasad Bezbaruah, former Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India; Ms. Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, senior journalist and writer; and Prof. Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati and author of the book
 
Chair: Prof. Srinath Raghavan, Professor of History and International Relations, Ashoka University and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Speakers: Mr. Selvan Naidoo, Director of the 1860 Heritage Centre, Durban, South Africa; Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Distinguished Professor, Ashoka University and Life Trustee, IIC; Shri Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, former Indian High Commissioner to South Africa; Latha Reddy, former Deputy NSA and former Secretary (East) MEA ; Mr. Sedula Mashudubele Mamabolo, Counsellor (Political), South African High Commission; Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni, columnist and Aide to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee; and Shri Anil Nauriya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV) and Trustee, IIC

The programme will commence with the release of ‘E.S. Reddy – Festschrift’, Edited by Jairam Reddy and Selvan Naidoo (Micro Mega and 1860 Heritage Centre, Durban: 2022)

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy (1924-2020) powered the powerful international solidarity for the epic anti-apartheid movement and was a hero of the liberation struggle of South Africa. ES was the moving spirit behind the United Nations’ Centre Against Apartheid from the 1960s to the 1980s. He devoted his later years to writing extensively on the struggle against Apartheid, Gandhi’s philosophy of Satyagraha and non-violence and India - South Africa relations. He was a rare individual from one country (India) who dedicated his life to the liberation struggle of another country (South Africa).

(Collaboration: Working Group on Alternative Strategies)

From the Margins of History

By Hasmukh Shah (Notion Press: 2023)

Discussants: Shri Pavan K. Varma, former diplomat, politician and author; Shri Balbir Punj, senior journalist and columnist; Ms Radhika Dhumal, architect and conservationist

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC