PROGRAMMES 29 AUG – 7 SEPTEMBER 2022 18:30 HRS
MONDAY 29
DISCUSSION ■ SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Syed Mahmood: Colonial India’s Dissenting Judge
By Mohammad Nasir and Samreen Ahmed (Bloomsbury India: 2022)
Release of the book, followed by a discussion
Discussants: Justice S. Ravindra Bhat, Judge, Supreme Court of India; Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia, Judge, Supreme Court of India; Prof. C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; and Mohammad Nasir, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Law, AMU and co-author of the book
Moderator: Faiza Abbasi, Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, AMU
Chair: Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Judge, Supreme Court of India
TUESDAY 30
DISCUSSION ■ MULTIPURPOSE HALL, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
The Moral Compass: Finding Balance and Purpose in an Imperfect World
By Hardayal Singh (HarperCollins India: 2022)
Discussants: Shyam Saran, President, IIC and former Foreign Secretary; Lord Meghnad Desai, economist and former Labour politician; Gurcharan Das, writer and public intellectual; Amb. Pavan K. Varma, former diplomat, author and politician; Prof. Alaka Basu, former Professor, Global Development, Cornell University, New York; and Hardayal Singh, author of the book
Moderator: Suhas Borker, Editor, Citizens First TV (CFTV)
TUESDAY 30
DISCUSSION ■ SEMINAR ROOMS I TO III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 18:30
The People of India: New Indian Politics in the 21st Century
A discussion based on the new book co-edited by Nayanika Mathur and Ravinder Kaur (Penguin)
Panelists: Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi; Ravinder Kaur, Copenhagen University; and Nayanika Mathur, Oxford University
Chair: Amita Baviskar, Ashok University
‘The People’ and ‘New India’ are terms that are being invoked freely to both understand and govern India as she enters her 75th year of post-colonial nationhood. Yet, there is little clarity on who these people of India really are, what they do, their desires, histories and attachments to India. Similarly, the phrase ‘New India’ is used far too loosely to explain away a dangerously confounding politics. In this book, some of the most respected scholars of South Asia come together to write about a person or a concept that holds particular sway in the politics of contemporary India. In doing so, they collectively open up an original understanding of what the politics at the heart of New India are – and how best we might come to analyse them.
(Collaboration: Ashoka University; and Penguin India)
TUESDAY 30 -31
FESTIVAL ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00
IIC DIAMOND JUBILEE CULTURAL PROGRAMME
DHRUPAD ARNAV II: 30 AND 31 AUGUST 2022
Dhrupad festival organised in collaboration with The Raza Foundation
Curated by Pt Nirmalya Dey
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Manoj Solanke (pakhawaj)
Followed by
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Madhu Bhatt Tailang
WEDNESDAY 31
FESTIVAL ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00
IIC DIAMOND JUBILEE CULTURAL PROGRAMME
DHRUPAD ARNAV II
Dhrupad Vocal Recital
By Abhijeet Sukhdane
Followed by
Dhrupad Instrumental Recital
By Pushpraj Koshti (surbahar)
WEDNESDAY 31
TALK ■ ANNEXE LECTURE ROOM II AT 18:30
MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION
“You ain’t got a thing, if you don’t have that swing . . .” Jazz culture 1900- 1950
Illustrated presentation by Sambudha Sen
This lecture will embed jazz (and its progenitor, the blues) in black communities settled in the great American cities especially in New Orleans, New York and Chicago. It will focus on that unique combination of the blue note and swing that is central to both jazz and the blues and show how the radically ambiguous experience of deprivation and joyousness determined a great many characteristics of jazz culture: for example the tension between the self-destructive lifestyles of individual musicians and the incessant collaborations between them and their instruments that drove the evolution of this great musical tradition.
Sambudha Sen is professor at Shiv Nadar University where he taught a course called Understanding Jazz
SEPTEMBER 2022
THURSDAY 1
DISCUSSION ■ SEMINAR ROOMS I – III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 17:00
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Writer, Rebel Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya
By Akshay Mukul (Penguin Random House India: 2022)
Discussants: Purushottam Agrawal, Visiting Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, scholar on medieval and early modern Hindi poetry; Prof. Malavika Maheshwari; and Akshay Mukul, author of the book
FRIDAY 2
TALK ■ CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 18:30
Science of Giants: China and India in the Twentieth Century
A talk by Jahnavi Phalkey, filmmaker and historian of science and technology, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru
And In Conversation with Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan, former Indian Ambassador to Greece and Cuba, Science Diplomacy Fellow, RIS
Chair: Amb. Bhaskar Balakrishnan
SATURDAY 3
FILM FESTIVAL ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM FROM 14:15 ONWARDS
Female Voices, Ukraine
A curated package of films by women directors from Ukraine organised in collaboration with International Association of Women in Radio and Television, India Chapter and Ukrainian Female Film Industry
Introduction
14:30 to 15:45: Fiction Shorts (I)
Оh! (Olga Zolotareva/Ukrainian /16:37 min)
A family sets out for a visit to the countryside. The children squabble in the back of the car, distracting their parents. Somehow, an old woman ends up riding with them. And then…
Doors (Natalia Davydenko/Ukrainian /9:31 min)
A young man rides through a vast desert landscape. His bike breaks down. And he is faced with a choice. This short leavens metaphor and philosophy with dark humour and optimism.
Seed (Ksenia Bugrimova/no dialogue/23:10 min)
A woman buys a special seed which she plants in a barrel and nurtures in secret, in this non-verbal short. Fantasies mingle with reality… until things take an unexpected turn.
Hermit Crab Master Of Escape (Larissa Gutarevych/Ukrainian/20:29 min)
Vitalina is 13 years old, at a new school, and her parents are getting divorced. And then her pet crab adds to the confusion, but ensuing events bring solace and insight.
A Hanging Coffee (Oksana Taranenko/Ukrainian/5:50 min)
A stylised fable-like sequence of events set in a coffee shop on a rainy morning. More than coffee hangs in the balance in this hangout space.
15:45 – 16:15: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers
16:45 – 18:00: Film
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk/Ukrainian & Russian/2020/74 min)
Against the background of an ongoing historical conflict, Anna and her children make a film together about their life, to cope with their daily trauma and surreal surroundings. Winner at Sundance for Direction, this documentary has won many more awards – best film, direction, cinematography – at major international film festivals.
18:00 – 18:30: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers
18:30 – 19:30: Fiction Shorts (II)
Solatium (Christina Tynkevych/Ukrainian & Russian /10:43 min)
Anna, an ambulance doctor, responds to a night call which brings back a painful past and challenges her moral compass.
Man (Oksana Artemenko/Ukrainian /6:20 min)
When a father is called to fight for his country, his toddler decides to be a grown-up for mother’s sake. A family vignette with an unexpected visual ending.
Broken (Solomia Tomaschuk/ /Ukrainian /20:16 min)
Two old acquaintances home from the army meet on a suburban bus. Their unfolding interactions show how you can leave the war, but war leaves its imprint on you. The short expressively conveys their need for support and yet the need to appear strong; their vulnerability is shot through with moments of grace.
Heartbreaker (Oleksandra Brovchenko/no dialogue/5:14min)
A delicious non-verbal romance plays out in the unlikely setting of supermarket aisles and counters.
Unwanted People (Loolie Mamontenko/Ukrainian/2021/15:19 min)
This stunningly filmed short with minimal dialogue strikes deep emotional chords, through the two contrasting worlds that Ludmila inhabits (three, if we include her dream and fantasies) – the nightclub where she works, and her home where she is alone yet not alone, both linked by her walks through a hard wintry landscape.
19:30 – 20:00: Virtual interaction with Ukrainian women filmmakers
TUESDAY 6
WORKSHOP & TALK ■ MULTIPURPOSE HALL, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX FROM 10:00 TO 17:00
DIALOGUES IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Conceptualised by Ashwani Kumar
From 10:00 to 13:00
Screening Workshop on Eye Diseases Leading to Blindness
Screening workshop for refractive error, glaucoma, cataract, diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration with stations for IOP measurement, Fundus examination and refraction. The workshop includes a public awareness programme about eye donation
Open to IIC members and staff members of IIC
At 16:00
Can you Prevent Blindness? The Avoidable Blindness: Preventable and Treatable
Speaker: Jeewan S. Titiyal, Chief and Professor of Ophthalmalogy, Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Chair: Ashwani Kumar
The talk will address the various causes of blindness that can be avoided and which are both preventable and treatable across different age groups. The important causes of preventable blindness among children including corneal scars due to vitamin A deficiency, infections, injuries, iatrogenic etc. as well as treatable causes such as paediatric cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of prematurity and uncorrected refractive errors. The leading causes of avoidable blindness among the adult population including cataract, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age related macular degeneration and uncorrected refractive errors.
TUESDAY 6
DISCUSSION ■ SEMINAR ROOMS I – III, KAMALADEVI COMPLEX AT 17:00
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
Three books will be discussed
Journey of a Nation: 75 years of Indian Economy – Re-emerge, Reinvest, Re-engage
By Sanjaya Baru (Rupa Publications India: 2022)
Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Foreign Policy – War, Peace and a World Realigned
By Madhav Das Nalapat (Rupa Publications India: 2022)
Journey of a Nation: 75 Years of Indian Sports – Game, Guts, Glory
By Chandresh Narayanan (Rupa Publications India: 2022)
Discussants include authors of the three volumes: Sanjaya Baru, formerly Editor, The Financial Express and Business Standard, and former media advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Prof. Madhav Das Nalapat, India’s first Professor of Geopolitics and subsequently the UNESCO Peace Chair, Manipal University, and formerly Editor, The Times of India; Chandresh Narayanan, independent cricket author, writer and broadcaster who currently writes for Dainik Bhaskar and is the author of World Cup Heroes
TUESDAY 6
TALK ■ CONFERENCE ROOM I AT 17:00
FITNESS FOREVER
Lifestyle and Liver
Speaker: Ajay Kumar, Chairman and Head of Department, BLK-Max Institute of Digestive & Liver Diseases, Chairman – Pan Max – Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Liver like the heart, kidney, and lungs is a vital organ of the human body. Thus to keep the body healthy, it is important to also keep the liver healthy. For this, it is important to be aware of and practice what is good for the body. Liver diseases are on the rise in India and across the world. A large number of these diseases can be prevented, if we practice the right lifestyle, consume clean water, nutritious food & practice selective prevention by immunization.
Ajay Kumar has wide knowledge and experience in this field. He will reflect upon the importance of all the issues which impact our liver and thus impact our body’s health and well-being.
TUESDAY 6
PERFORMANCE ■ C. D. DESHMUKH AT 18:30
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Sabina Mumtaz Islam from Kolkata, disciple of Janab Jainul Abedin and later the later Sunil Bose and recipient of the Sanskriti-Madhobi Chatterji Memorial Fellowship
Accompanists: Pt. Vinod Lele (tabla); and Vinay Mishra (harmonium)
(Collaboration: Sanskriti Foundation)
WEDNESDAY 7
PERFORMANCE ■ C.D. DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:00
IIC DOUBLE BILL MUSIC RECITALS
Sitar Recital
By Chirag Katti from Mumbai, son and disciple of Shashank Katti
At 19:00
Hindustani Vocal Recital
By Arindam Mukhopadhyay from Delhi, disciple of Pt Madhup Mudgal
WEDNESDAY 7
TALK ■ CONFERENCE ROOM II AT 18:30
MAPPING SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Coordinator: Siraj Hussain
Employment Situation in India in Post-Covid Times: Will Agriculture Continue to be the largest Employer?
Speaker: Santosh Mehrotra, Professor of Economics, Centre for Labour, Jawaharlal Nehru University and author and editor of several books including the recently published Reviving Jobs: An Agenda for Growth (Vintage Books)
Chair: Siraj Hussain, Promoter Director, Arcus Policy Research Private Ltd.
