Do Courts grant women their inheritance claims?

Speaker: Prof. Bina Agarwal with Shruthi Naik
Chair: Alok Prasanna Kumar, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Bengaluru

Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is also affiliated to and is ex-Director of the Institute of Economic Growth

Bridging economics and law, Agarwal will highlight how despite inheritance law reform, a wide gender gap persists in property transfers by families. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? Who opposes them? What kind of property is disputed? What do judgements reveal in terms of outcomes and language? This pioneering research co-authored with Shruthi Naik of Vidhi probes online data on High court judgements over 2005-2020 to address these questions. 

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(Organised in collaboration with Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Bengaluru)

Speaker: Prof. Madhavan K. Palat, historian, scholar of modern world, and political commentator

Chair: Amb. Shivshankar Menon, Visiting Professor, Ashoka University and formerly National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary of India

Moderator: Cmde C. Uday Bhaskar
 

Life, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita
By Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta (Grin Media Pvt. Ltd.: 2024)

Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India

Discussants: Dr. Bibek Debroy, economist, Chairman, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and co-author of the book; and Dr. Hindol Sengupta, historian, academic, journalist, Professor of International Relations, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat and co-author of the book

Moderator: Shri Rishi Suri, Co-Founder, Grin Publication

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)