Bharata before the British and other essays: Towards a new Indology

By Shonaleeka Kaul (Vitasta, 2024)

Introductory Remarks: K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Discussants: Prof. Meenakshi Jain, Hon’ble. Member of Rajya Sabha, Author, Historian; Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar, Former Chairman, University Grants Commission, Professor (formerly Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi), educationist and columnist; Prof. Shonaleeka Kaul, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Former Malathy Singh Distinguished Lecturer, Yale University; Jan Gonda Fellow, Leiden University; Visiting Professor, Heidelberg University. Sanskritist and author of the book.

With climate change aggravating and leading to adverse impacts on social and economic sectors. India urgently requires investment in climate adaptation. The discussion identifies the challenges faced in implementing adaptation actions by states, the current sources of climate finance, particularly adaptation finance, the instruments and methods of current financing, and suggests possible ways of scaling adaptation finance for states.

Paper presented by: RR Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow, TERI; and Dhriti Pathak, Climate Change Researcher and Analyst.

Discussant: Ravi Shankar Prasad, Distinguished Fellow CEEW, Former Additional Secretary MOEF& CC

Moderator: C.K. Mishra, Former Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Government of India

(Organised by the IIC’s Sectoral Policy Planning Group on Environment under the Convenorship of C.K. Mishra)

The Dark Hours of the Night

By Salma; translated by G J V Prasad (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

Discussants: Professor B Mangalam, English professor at Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi; Prof. Swati Pal, Principal, Janki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi; Prof. Nishat Haider, Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia ; Ms. Salma, Author of the Book, Member of Parliament ; Prof G J V Prasad, Translator of the Book

Moderator: Prof. Malashri Lal, Convenor, English Advisory Board, Sahitya Academy and poet

India and Africa: Legacy of Exchanges and Cultural Affinities

Edited by H.H.S. Viswanathan and K.N. Shrivastava (Konark Publishers Pvt Ltd.)

Welcome remarks: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Discussants: Prof. Ajay Dubey, Chair, Centre for African Studies, JNU & Secretary-General, African Studies Association of India; Prof. Nandini C. Sen, Bharti College, Delhi University; Ruchita Beri, Senior Fellow, Vivekananda International Foundation; Amb. H.H.S Viswanathan, Editor of the book

Chair: Shyam Saran, President and Life Trustee, IIC

Birds in flight

Translated by Rashmi Govind (Penguin, 2025)

Discussants: Prof. Sukrita Paul, Guest Editor, Indian Literature, Poet, Academic & Critic; Chandana Dutta, Author, Editor, and Translator; Anisur Rahman, Former Professor, Department of English, JMI; Rashmi Govind, translator of the book

Moderator: Moutushi Mukherjee, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House

Combating War by Art and Poetry

By Mandira Ghosh (Authorspress, 2025)

Discussants: Sunit Tandon, Former Director, IHC; Prof. Radha Chakravarty, Writer, Critic & Translator; Prof. Swati Pal, Principal and Professor, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi; Dr. Rumki Basu, Former Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia & Poet, Mandira Ghosh, Poet, Author & Researcher & Author of the book

Chair: Dr. Amarendra Khatua, Former Secretary, MEA & DG, ICCR & Poet

The Thousand Years War: Russia and the West.

By Achala Moulik (Har-Anand Publications, 2025)

Discussants: H.E Mr. Denis Alipov, Russian Ambassador (Guest of Honour); Dr Archana Upadhyay, Professor, Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, JNU; Shri Dipanjan Roy Chaudhuri, Diplomatic Editor of Economic Times; Dr Achala Moulik, Author of the book

Chair: Shri K. N. Shrivastava, Director, IIC

Gossips of Our Surrogate Story: Prose poems

By Rajorshi Narayan Patranabis (Hawakaal Publisher, 2025)

Discussants: Sudeep Sen, Poet and Literary Editor; Shubha Dwivedi, Associate Professor, ARSD College, University of Delhi; Rajorshi Patranabis, Poet, Reviewer, Essayist & Author of the Book

Moderator: Kiriti Sengupta, Poet and Publisher

POSTPONED

The Making & Remaking of Uttarakhand: Journey of a Land Spirit of its people

By Aditya Vats (Motilal Banarsidass Publishing, 2025)

Discussants: Vinod Kumar Sharma, IRS; Prof (Dr.) Raghavendra, Mahant, Peethadheehswar, Shri Ram Panchaitan Siddh Peeth, Director – Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Media Affairs, Associate Professor and Head, Deptt. of Management Studies, Dehradun, GRD Institute of Management & Technology; Aditya Vats, Author, Youth Ambassador, Cultural Historian, Entrepreneur & Author of the book

Moderator: Dr. Nutan Sharma, PCS

Working for an Equal World

Panel Discussion by leading women from Northeast

Panelists: Ms Patricia Mukhim, social activist, writer, journalist and Editor of The Shillong Times; Prof Rakhee Kalita Moral, Professor and Head Department of English and Chair, Centre for Women’s Studies Cotton University; Dr Stuti Goswami, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Assam Royal Global University, Guwahati; and Dr Purnima Devi Barman, Indian wildlife biologist

Moderator: Sanjoy Hazarika, writer, journalist and human rights activist

Chair: Rami Chhabra, veteran media person, author and social activist