Caste Lasts: The Anatomy of a Resilient Hegemony

This lecture offers conceptual revisitation of the topic of caste, under the rubric of "resilient hegemonies" i.e. systems of coercion and humiliation which resist efforts to subvert, reform or exit them for significant periods of time.

Speaker: Prof. Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and Visiting Professor of Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin

Chair: Prof. Rita Brara, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

(Collaboration: Contributions to Indian Sociology; Institute of Economic Growth)

Programme Details

Interplay, Impact, Policy Framework and Way Forward

Full day seminar based on the Report on Climate Change, Land Use & Biodiversity prepared by Dr. P.S. Roy, Dr. Swati Basu and Dr. Sanjay Kumar as part of the IIC Sectoral Policy Group on Science & Technology under the Convenorship of Dr. Renu Swarup

Inauguration
Welcome Address: Dr. P.S. Roy
Context setting and about the monograph: Dr. Renu Swarup, former Secretary, Department of Biotechnology

Address about SPGs: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Under the S&T Policy group, there have been detailed discussions on S&T interventions for important issues of relevance to Civil society. A very detailed monograph has been prepared by the group of experts on the important issue of Climate change: Land use and Land cover and Biodiversity including Agrobiodiversity. The discussions have focussed on the current landscape, the challenges, the science and technology component and the policy framework for actions which need to be taken

Midnight Haze
By Kaia Roy

Discussants: Shri Sunit Tandon, Director, India Habitat Centre; Prof. Sukrita Paul Kumar, Guest Editor, Indian Literature, poet, academic and critic; Prof. Malashri Lal, academic, writer, editor and anthologist; and Ms Kaia Roy, author of the book

Chair: Prof. Meenakshi Gopinath, Life Trustee, IIC
 

Launch of the IIC-IRD book edited by Shankari Sundararaman and the late Kapila Vatsyayan (New Delhi: Konarak Publishers, 2025)

Shri N.N. Vohra, Life Trustee, IIC will release the book and preside over the discussion

Panelists: H.E. Amb. Ina Krisnamurthi, Ambassador of Indonesia to India; Prof. Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University; and Prof. Shankari Sundararaman, volume editor and Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, and Chairperson, Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

(Organised by the IIC-International Research Division)
 

Panelists: Prof. Mary E. John who has been working in the fields of women’s studies and feminist politics for many years and was Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies (2006-2012); Prof. Anurekha Chari Wagh, Department of Sociology,University of Hyderabad; Dr. Protiva Kundu, Research Lead – Social Sectors, Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA); Dr. Anagha Tambe, Assistant Professor & Head of KSP Women’s Studies Centre, Savitribai Phule University, Pune and Dr. Swati Dyahadroy, Assistant Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Savitribai Phule University, Pune; Prof. Jyoti Dalal, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi; Dr. Manasi Thapliyal Navani, Assistant Professor, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University; and Prof. Nandita Narain, former Head of the Dept. of Mathematics, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi

Concluding Observations: Prof. Apoorvanand, Professor, Hindi Dept., Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi

Moderator: Prof. Anita Rampal, Convenor SPG on Education

This lecture is part of the IIC Sectoral Policy Group on Education under the Convenorship of Prof. Anita Rampal

A discussion on ISID’s India Industrial Development Report 2024-25

Presentation of the Report by Prof. Nagesh Kumar, Director, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID)

Panelists: Shri Ajay Shankar, former Industry Secretary, Govt. of India; Amb. Dammu Ravi, Secretary (Economic Relations), Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India; and Prof. Ram Singh, Director, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University

Chair: Dr. V.K. Saraswat, Member, Niti Aayog, Govt. of India

The Report is the first in a new series of flagship reports, ISID has launched, provides an evidence-based analysis of different challenges and opportunities that the country faces, as it pursues manufacturing-led transformation and outlines a policy agenda and institutional framework for accelerating it.

(Collaboration: Institute for Studies in Industrial Development)

ART MATTERS

Panel discussion on Looking at Art
 

Panelists: Nitin Bhayana; Vandana Kalra; Jyoti Kathpalia; and Anubhav Nath

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

Ke Viruddh Swaminathan: Ek Paksh

(Published by Setu Prakashan)

A panel discussion on a biography of eminent artist, Jagdish Swaminathan in Hindi with Nand Katyal; Khalid Jawed; Wagish Shukla; and the author, Akhilesh

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)

Reading Schopenhauer – From Kesarbai through Nine Other Musicians

Speaker: S. Gopalakrishnan, professional broadcaster with long years of association with the central archives of All India Radio. Formerly Director, Content of Sahapedia, an online encyclopaedic resource on South Asian arts and heritage; recipient of the Kerala Sahitya Sabha award for prose in 2012, he has authored several books in English and Malayalam

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)
 

Banaras

A journey into the Heart of the City (Penguin Random House India: 2024)

A discussion with Prof. Purushottam Aggarwal; Ms Vasanthi Raman; and Shri Vertul Singh

Moderator: Ms Milee Aishwarya

(Collaboration: The Raza Foundation)