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)
 

Speaker: Amb. Ruchira Kamboj, Former Permanent Representative/Ambassador of India to the United Nations, New York

Chair: Amb. Syed Akbaruddin, Dean, Kautilya School of Public Policy, Hyderabad and former Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations
 

Deviations

Panel discussion with Ravi Agarwal, artist, photographer, environmental campaigner, writer, curator; Manisha Parekh, artist; and Vibha Galhotra, conceptual artist who’s work includes large-scale installations, sculptures, drawings, films that explore themes of ecological and environmental concerns (tbc)

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Ancient wisdom of our times

Yoga Unveiled: 13 and 14 July 2024

 Details of Yoga Programme

A two-day workshop with Yogacharya Dr. Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani, MBBS, MD, DSC (Yoga); and Yogacharini Dr. Sangeeta Laura Biagi

Dr. Bhavanani is the Director of the Institute of Salutogenesis & Complementary Medicine at Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Pondicherry. Born into an ancient lineage of Yoga Masters, he empowers holistic health by bridging ancient wisdom with modern science through yoga and traditional healing practices, integrating spirituality with human flourishing 

Dr. Sangeeta Biagi is the Director of International Studies & Research of Gitananda Nada Yoga at the International Centre for Yoga Education & Research, Ananda Ashram Pondicherry. She trained as a cultural anthropologist, sound healer & yoga teacher fostering spiritual & emotional healing through voice awareness.

Due to limited seats, we would request you to kindly please register in advance should you wish to attend the workshop. The link for registration is given below:
https://forms.gle/sY3K4vJ5vXLCbA4S9

Release of the IIC Quarterly Winter 2023 – Spring 2024 Special Issue
Edited by Kiranmayi Bhushi and Omita Goyal

To be released by Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman, IIC Editorial Board

Followed by a panel discussion with
Prof. R. Mahalakshmi, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Navtej Singh Johar, dancer-choreographer, yoga practitioner, scholar and social activist; Jamal Shaikh, National Editor, Brunch Magazine, The Hindustan Times; and Prof. Kiranmayi Bhushi, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University and Co-editor of the volume

Food is the buzz word that seems to occupy the public sphere in India lately. There is proliferation of writing on all things related to food:  cook books, tomes on particular food items, wellness related themes, travel writings and culinary practices related to nutrition and diet. TV and social media platforms too are inundated with shows and snippets on food. The culinary superstars in turn have spawned the culture of celebrity chefs that have made the ordinary, domestic and marginal space of the kitchen into the extraordinary. Food is also a great signifier and marker of distinction:  middle class aspirations and acquisition of tastes, of caste, gender, religion, ethnicity or nationality. This volume is an overview of the transformation of foodways and its social contexts of India. It is a multi-disciplinary enquiry into the ways in which food and its production and consumption are enmeshed in all aspects of human existence and society.
 

Speaker: Dr. Rahul Sud, founder, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (LSCC)

Chair: Suhas Borker, Trustee, IIC

Rahul Sud is the founder of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. With a market capitalization of the order of $10 Billion, it is the world leader in Ultra low power Programmable Logic Devices. Lattice products are in use in 90% of the world electronics industry including consumer electronics, telecom, automotive, cell phones and data centers for artificial intelligence at the edge. Rahul was voted ‘Man of the Year: Semiconductor Memories’ in the USA for revolutionizing the design of “Static Random Access Memories” (SRAM). His 11 patents have garnered over $2.5 Billion as royalties from worldwide manufactures and the techniques developed are an industry standard.
 

Workshop conducted by Smt Bijoylaxmi Hota, noted Yoga expert, therapist, and author of Yoga for Busy People

Smt Hota will demonstrate and teach the correct way of practicing yogic chants 

Mantras are not ordinary sounds, but are power packed formulas for a fuller life. Research on the Maha mantra conducted in the Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, have shown that the effects of this mantra on the human system are the same as that of the medication for anxiety and schizophrenia. Dr. Howard Steingeril, an American scientist who collected, Mantras, Hymns and invocations from all over the world and tested their strength in his Physiology Laboratory, found that the Gayatri mantra produced 110000 positive sound waves per second – the maximum any sound can produce. These waves are said to fill up every cell in our body, energising them and making them healthier

Organised as part of the programmes to mark World Yoga Day 2024
 

Speaker: Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School and Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. Dr. Sangay was Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan Administration in India from 2011 to 2012, and Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration where he served two terms 

Chair: Prof. Swati Chawla, Associate Professor, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, O.P. Jindal University