Book Discussion | #LocalGovernance

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Book Discussion on ‘Brick By Brick: Democratising Local Governance in Kerala – Insights from the People’s Plan Campaign‘ with author Prof Manjula Bharathy (Professor, Centre for Urban Policy and Governance, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

When: December 1, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Discussants: Dr Mallika M. G. (Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University, Kerala), Dr Biju T. (University of Kerala)

Moderator: Tikender Singh Panwar (Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

Book Discussion

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Book Discussion on ‘Educational Strategies for Youth Empowerment in Conflict Zones‘ with author Nyla Ali Khan (Professor, Oklahoma City Community College, University of Oklahoma, USA)

When: December 6, 2021 | 5:30 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Panel Discussion | #EmploymentDebate

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Panel Discussion on MGNREGS amidst the Pandemic: Impact and the Way Forward

When: December 11, 2021 | 4:30 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Chair: Fr. Dr Denzil Fernandes (Executive Director, Indian Social Institute (ISI), New Delhi)

Panelists: Prof Aruna Roy (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan), Dr Gurjeet Singh

Special Lecture | #GenderGaps

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Prof Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu (Professor, Faculty of International Business and Economics, Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania) on Feminist Vision of Building a Better World in the Post-pandemic Period

When: December 13, 2021 | 6:30 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Special Remarks: Ambassador Daniela Mariana Sezonov-Tane (Ambassador, Embassy of Romania in New Delhi, India)

Discussants: Prof Manisha Desai (University of Connecticut, USA), Dr Chitra Sinha (Independent Academic; Kooheji Training and Education Management, Bahrain), Prof Lakshmi Lingam (Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

#PlanetTalks

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Prof Krishna Raj (Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Policy (CESP), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru) on Environmental Governance in India

When: December 14, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Dr Simi Mehta (IMPRI, New Delhi)

Panel Discussion | #GenderGaps

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Panel Discussion on National Family Health Survey Round 5 (NFHS-5), 2019-2021 under a Gender Lens

When: December 14, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Panel Discussion | #LocalGovernance

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Panel Discussion on COP26 and Urban Local Governance

When: December 15, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Tikender Singh Panwar (Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

Panelists: Prof Chetan Vaidya (Independent Urban Advisor; Former Director, SPA and NIUA, New Delhi), Prof K. K. Pandey (Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi), Dr Vikas Desai (Urban Health and Climate Resilience Center of Excellence (UHCRCE), Surat)

#LocalGovernance

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Dr Purnima Chauhan, IAS (Retd.) (Secretary (Retd.), Government of Himachal Pradesh) on Innovation and Empowerment of ULBs for Effective Decentralization and Accountability

When: December 17, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

Moderator: Tikender Singh Panwar (Former Deputy Mayor, Shimla; Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi)

From our network:

WIDER Annual Lecture 25 - Women’s struggle for land in South Asia: Can legal reforms trump social norms?

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A century has passed since women in Undivided India, now divided into several countries of South Asia, demanded equal rights in property — especially land, the most important means of production in developing economies. The struggle continued after Independence. Today, the resultant legal reforms have given a vast majority of women legal equality with men in India, and their rights in neighbouring countries—Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh―have also increased.

However, have changes in the law improved women’s situation in practice? Have they closed the gender gap in actual land ownership and trumped restrictive social norms and customs? If not, is there a way forward?

Bina Agarwal (Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK) will address these questions in the 2021 WIDER Annual Lecture, drawing on her three decades of research on the subject. She will be joined by Professor of international affairs at The New School in New York, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, as discussant.

When: December 9, 2021; 16:00 UTC+2

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Repeal of the Three Farm Bills: Farmers’ Stand-off Unlikely to End by Arun Kumar | #IMPRI insights

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Restructure economy to bring down pollution by Krishna Raj | #IMPRI insights

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Social interactions & education futures by Rajesh Tandon | #IMPRI insights

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Should the Repeal of the Farm Laws Brought in by the Modi Government be Celebrated? by T K Arun | #IMPRI insights

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The secret behind reality of booming entrepreneurship in India by Rohit Mehta | #IMPRI insights

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Why is India in Denial as China Pushes Into Arunachal? by Srikanth Kondapalli | #IMPRI insights

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India Needs to Become a Player in Syria’s Transition and Reconstruction by Anil Trigunayat | #IMPRI insights

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West Asia: Winds of Change are Welcome by Anil Trigunayat | #IMPRI insights

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The Fuel Factor in Indian Economy and Polity by Rohit Yadav and Swati Solanki | #IMPRI insights

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Reinventing the Spirit of Freedom in the 21st Century by Sunil Ray | #IMPRI insights

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Religion Free Governance Must For Secular India by Amita Singh | #IMPRI insights

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Behind the facade of civility, the reality of the US-China dialogue by Harsh V. Pant | #IMPRI insights

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Rendering the Constitution unconstitutional by T K Arun | #IMPRI insights

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Examining Family Laws from the prism of Feminist Jurisprudence by Flavia Agnes | #IMPRI insights

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Making Yamuna Flow Again by Manoj Misra | #IMPRI insights

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Cities in Transition by Tikender Singh Panwar | IMPRI Books

Available on Amazon Kindle.

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Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) Volume 1, Issue 4 (October – December 2020) | Towards Equality and Empowerment: Reflections amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Reinventing the spirit of freedom by Sunil Ray | Mainstream Weekly

Disaster resilient spatial planning: Perspectives on local and regional governance and impact by Arjun Kumar | Counterview

Addressing human trafficking in the wake of a disaster by Simi Mehta | Counterview

Delta Vision 2050: Policy, Practice, and People | IMPRI Event Report

The State of the Peri-Urban | IMPRI Event Report

India and the Emerging Competition in the Indo-Pacific | IMPRI Event Report

Special Lecture | #GenderGaps

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Flavia Agnes (Women's Rights Lawyer; Co-founder and Director, Majlis Legal Centre, Mumbai) on Feminist Jurisprudence and Gender Bias within Family Laws

Chair: Prof Vibhuti Patel (Visiting Professor, IMPRI, New Delhi; Former Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai)

Discussants: Anuradha Kapoor (Swayam, Kolkata), Audrey D'Mello (Majlis Legal Centre, Mumbai), Sanchita Ain (ASV Legal)

#GenderGaps

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Dr Rubén Poblete-Cazenave (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Candidate Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, The Netherlands) on Asymmetric Crime Dynamics and Social Interactions.

Chair: Prof Govind Kelkar (GenDev Centre for Research and Innovation, Gurugram; IMPRI, New Delhi)

Discussants: Dr Anand Shrivastava (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru), Dr Renuka Sane (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), Delhi)

#CohesiveDevelopment

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Prof A. Venkat Raman (Professor, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi) on Private Sector Engagement and Public-Private Partnership in Health Service Delivery in India

Discussants: Dr Narendra Gupta (Prayas, Chittorgarh), Dr Swati Sawant Rane (SevaShakti Healthcare; Clinical Nursing Research Society)

Moderator: Prof Sunil Ray (Former Director, A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna; Advisor, CDECS and IMPRI)

#CityConversations

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Dr Kanchan Gandhi (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali) on The State of the Peri-Urban

Chair: Dr Rumi Aijaz (Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi)

Discussants: Sameer Unhale (Government of Maharashtra), Dr Bhawna Bali (TERI-SAS, Delhi), Dr Ashima Sood (Anant National University)