Panelists: Stephane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Advisor, The World Bank, Washington DC; E. Somanathan, Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi; Radhika Khosla, Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University, UK; and Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University, Sonipat 

Chair: Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment, University of Manchester, UK and former Director, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Delhi

Economic resilience is essential for sustainability.  A resilient economy is one that can recover (even emerge stronger) from shocks, be they economic, climatic, technological, or health-related. The impact of these shocks and recovery from them, however, tends to be unequal for individuals, households, firms and communities; formal and informal sector workers; village and city dwellers; and spatially, due to pre-existing socio-economic inequalities. The policy challenge is to build an economy that is resilient in diverse contexts, and where shocks do not exacerbate inequalities but provide an opportunity to ‘build back better’? A distinguished panel of experts will discuss these key issues, drawing on Indian and global experience. 

(Collaboration: Institute of Economic Growth)
 

State of Play: How Will the Recent State Elections Impact National Politics?

Speakers: Mahua Moitra, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha (Trinamool Congress); Priyanka Chaturvedi, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (Shiv Sena UBT); Nalin Mehta, Managing Editor, MoneyControl.com and Manoj Jha, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (Janata Dal)

Moderator: Bharat Bhushan, journalist and Editor

(Collaboration: The Media Foundation)
 

By Geeti Sen (Mapin Publishing: 2024)

Introduction: Waswo X. Waswo

Dr. Giles Tillotson, cultural historian, Consultant Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur and Senior Vice President, DAG, New Delhi In Conversation with Dr. Geeti Sen, art historian, author and professor

The book introduces the work of contemporary Indian artists who have been influenced by miniature traditions of painting. Dr. Sen brings together her two areas of expertise in contemporary art and miniature painting, to introduce an approach that has not been explored before. Icon making forms an indispensable part of the visual language in India. This book selects and focuses on the work of five significant artists: Abanindranath Tagore, Manjit Bawa, Waswo X. Waswo, R. Vijay and Nilima Sheikh. They have resourced and reinvented iconic traditions, with different perspectives and using different techniques.

(Collaboration: Mapin Publishing)

Details of the programme

Inaugural Session

Welcome by Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Introduction: Dr. Jyotsna Singh, Convenor of the Seminar, Director, Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts

Living Among Many Times and Cultures
Keynote Address by Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, well-known painter and poet

(Collaboration: Dara Shikoh Centre for the Arts)
 

Poetry – Singing a Nation 

Readings from selected poems composed during the nationalist movement by leading Indian poets – Rabindranath Tagore; Kazi Nazrul Islam; C. Subramania Bharati; Vallathol Narayana Menon; Sarojini Naidu; Jaishankar Prasad; Iqbal; Maithilisharan Gupta; Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and others

Conceptualised by Shri Ashok Vajpeyi

Readings in the original languages by Sujatha Ramanan (Tamil); Ruma Ghosh (Bengali); Dr. Sudha Gopalakrishnan (Malayalam); Sunit Tandon (English); Priyanka Sharma, Anushakti & Mrityunjay Tripathi (Hindi); and Pradeep Tarkash (Urdu)

Moderator: Apoorvanand

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. 

Register at: https://forms.gle/BjhCsbXVWXVVpx2t6

(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