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 (National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW); Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan), Dr Gurjeet Singh (Social Audit Unit, Jharkhand), Sandeep Chachra (ActionAid India), Prof S. Irudaya Rajan (The International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD), Thiruvananthapuram), Prof R. B. Bhagat (IIPS, Mumbai)

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)

Panelists: Poonam Muttreja (Population Foundation of India), Prof Sayeed Unisa (IIPS, Mumbai), Ravi Duggal (Independent Sociologist, Public Health Researcher, and Activist), Prof Mala Ramanathan (SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram; Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME))

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)

#GenderGaps

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Dr Shalu Nigam (Advocate, Author, and Researcher, Gender and Human Rights) on Implementing Domestic Violence Law in India: Are we asking the right questions?

When: December 16, 2021 | 6:00 p.m. IST | REGISTER HERE

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

#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)

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Climate change and the visible hand by Dhiraj Nayyar | #IMPRI insights

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Revisit Adaptive Strategies to Minimise Loss From Natural Disasters by Tikender Singh Panwar | #IMPRI insights

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As strategic autonomy matters, India crisscrosses US, Russia political mazes adroitly by Anil Trigunayat | #IMPRI insights

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Amid signs of Cold War 2.0, China ups ante to be recognised as world’s pre-eminent power by Srikanth Kondapalli | #IMPRI insights

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Declining fertility rate and population in India by Gurinder Kaur | #IMPRI insights

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India’s Fertility Rate Falls, But the Story is Different for Some States by Urvashi Prasad, Adhiraj Parthasarathy | #IMPRI insights

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Democratic deficits and disaster management by Amita Singh | #IMPRI insights

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Will India Really Phase Out Single-Use Plastics In 2022? by Manoj Misra | #IMPRI insights

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China has taken the arms race to a different level by Srikanth Kondapalli | #IMPRI insights

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Amid great power competition, what Delhi and Moscow mean to each other by Harsh V. Pant | #IMPRI insights

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Protests Against Covid Vaccines and Restrictions are Signs of Democratic Failure by T K Arun | #IMPRI insights

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Will Zero Budget Natural Farming address India’s complex farming and food demands? by Leo Saldanha, Bhargavi S. Rao | #IMPRI insights

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Putin’s visit: From Russia with resolve by Anil Trigunayat | #IMPRI insights

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The State of Economic Development in South Asia: A Compendium of Deliberations - Econ Dev Discussion 2021 by Utpal Kumar De, Simi Mehta, Mahima Kapoor | IMPRI Books

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Economic Growth, Climate Crisis and Natural Disasters by Gurinder Kaur | IMPRI Books

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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

Private Sector Engagement and Public-Private Partnership in Health Service Delivery in India | IMPRI Event Report

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

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)

Discussants: Sadam Hanjabam (Ya_All: The Youth Network, Manipur), Dr Leena Wadia (ORF, Mumbai), Patrick B. McGuigan (The Oklahoma City Sentinel)

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)

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)

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)