SHABNAM HASHMI

23, CANNING LANE, NEW DELHI-110001

EMAIL: shabnamhashmi@gmail.com

January 2, 2013

DCP PARLIAMENT STREET

PARLIAMENT STREET POLICE STATION

NEW DELHI

SUB: REGISRATION OF CASE UNDER Section 153A

Dear Sir,

                I am writing to you to draw your attention to the speech of Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, given a few days ago. The speech is available on you tube and is being circulated on the facebook extensively.
This highly inflammatory speech made by Mr. Akbaruddin Owaisi of MIM and member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly was delivered on December 24, 2012 in Nirmal town of Andhra Pradesh. 

The whole speech is highly objectionable, inflammatory against the Hindu religion and against our cultural heritage. It is a strong attack on the values of our constitution, democracy and secular values. Such obnoxious speeches divide society, vitiate peace and lead to conflicts and riots.

I request you to immediately register a case against Mr Akbarudddin Owaisi under section 153 A of the IPC. I request you to take exemplary action in this very serious matter to ensure that such intolerable acts are never repeated again, anywhere by anyone and secure peace and harmony in the country.

This speech falls under this section as it has clearly causing enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and is causing a threat to communal harmony.

Yours sincerely

Shabnam Hashmi

9811807558

Indian Penal Code (IPC)

Section 153A. Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony

¹[153A. Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony.—(1) Whoever—

(a) By words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise, promotes or attempts to promote, on grounds of religion, race, place or birth, residence, language, caste or community or any other ground whatsoever, disharmony or feelings of enmity, hatred or ill-will between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities, or

(b) Commits any act which is prejudicial to the maintenance of harmony between different religious, racial, language or regional groups or castes or communities, and which disturbs or is likely to disturb the public tranquility, 2[or]

²[(c) Organizes any exercise, movement, drill or other similar activity intending that the participants in such activity shall use or be trained to use criminal force or violence of knowing it to be likely that the participants in such activity will use or be trained to use criminal force or violence, or participates in such activity intending to use or be trained to use criminal force or violence or knowing it to be likely that the participants in such activity will use or be trained to use criminal force or violence, against any religious, racial, language or regional group or caste or community and such activity for any reason whatsoever causes or is likely to cause fear or alarm or a feeling of insecurity amongst members of such religious, racial, language or regional group or caste or community,]

Shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.

Offence committed in place of worship, etc.— (2) Whoever commits an offence specified in sub-section (1) in any place of worship or in any assembly engaged in the performance of religious worship or religious ceremonies, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine.]

CLASSIFICATION OF OFFENCE

Para I

Punishment—Imprisonment for 3 years, or fine, or both—Cognizable—Non-bailable—Triable by any Magistrate of the first class—Non-compoundable.

Para II

Punishment—Imprisonment for 5 years and fine—Cognizable—Non-bailable—Triable by Magistrate of the first class—Non-compoundable.

Kid’s day out with the Pros at Aircel Chennai Open

Chennai, 1^st January, 2013: Aircel Chennai Open 2013, India’s only and South Asia’s leading ATP World Tour event today conducted a special tennis clinic for children with the professional players. Representing the players were India’s young tennis professionals - Divij Sharan, Jeevan Neduncheziyan, N. Sriram Balaji, Vignesh Peranamallur, Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash, Ramkumar Ramanathan along with eighth seed Go Soeda of Japan and Michael Kohlmann from Germany.

The tennis clinic is a distinctive opportunity for aspiring youngsters to hone their skills with personal interactions by professional Indian and international tennis players. The session saw over sixty kids from various TNTA academies in action and was conducted by Milos Galecic, Somdev Devvarman’s strength and conditioning coach.

As part of the activity, the children worked on warm-up exercises, various drills, techniques and hit balls with the pros. Milos Galecic even interacted with the parents who were present and helped them with guidance and tips to develop a healthier body for their children.

Present at the event was tennis legend Vijay Amritraj and the session was conducted by Charu Sharma.

ABOUT AIRCEL CHENNAI OPEN 2013

The USD 430,000 Aircel Chennai Open, owned by IMG and operated and organized by IMG Reliance, is India and South Asia's only ATP World Tour event. Started in 1996, by IMG, a global leader in sports management and marketing, the tournament has completed sixteen successful years of existence, branding Chennai and India on the global tennis map thus creating a legacy of sorts of promoting international tennis in India. Winner of the prestigious ATP's Player Services Award of Excellence (2006) for its outstanding organization and wonderful hospitality towards the participants and ATP's Best Marketing Award (2008), the event has acquired the status of a much sought-after tennis event for both players and fans alike in the International tennis circuit. The 18th edition of the tournament will be held from December 31, 2012 to January 6, 2013 at the SDAT Tennis stadium in Nungambakkam, Chennai. The tournament is conducted in Chennai under the aegis of the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and is organized with the active collaboration of the Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu (SDAT) and Tamil Nadu Tennis Association (TNTA).

NEHRU MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO PUBLIC EVENTS (2013)

NEHRU MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND LIBRARY

CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO PUBLIC EVENTS (2013)

Date, Day & Time	Type of Programme	Speaker	Title
7 January 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Prof. Sudhir Chandra, Former Fellow, NMML.	‘Gandhi-aitihasik punarvyakkhya’ (In Hindi)
9 January 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. E. Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi.	‘India in the emerging world order: Rising power or constrained power?’
11-12 January 2013 Friday-Saturday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Prof. Amiya Sen, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and Prof. Basudev Chatterji,   Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Dr. Rosinka Chaudhury, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Prof. A. Raghuramaraju, University of Hyderabad, Dr. Gangeya Mukherjee, M. Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau, Uttar Pradesh, Prof. Pralay Kanungo, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof. Makarand Paranjape, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Prof. Bruce Robertson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, Mr. Peter Heehs, Independent Researcher, Pondicherry, Prof. Gwilym Beckerlegge, Open University, UK, Dr. Richard Hartz, Independent Researcher, Pondicherry.	‘Swami Vivekananda and the making of modern India’
14 January 2013 Monday          3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Dr. Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Ambedkar University, Delhi.	‘The myth of the hare and the hound: Making sense of history’
15 January 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Siddharth Mallavarapu, South Asian University, New Delhi.	‘Disciplinary histories of international relations (IR): Interpreting Indian IR conservations’
16 January 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, USA.	‘The decline of Safavid Iran: A comparative perspective’
17 January 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. David Engerman, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA and American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon.	‘Development as diplomacy: Superpower competition and the Nehruvian economy’
18-19  January 2013 Friday & Saturday            9.00 am	Conference	In association with Mr. Rohit Prakash, Research Intern, NMML. Mr. Sandeep Chatterjee, University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Sourav Mahanta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms. Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Mr. Sandip Chatterjee, Gottingen University, Ms. Puja Rani, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms. P. R. Nisha, University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Robert Rahman Raman, University of Delhi, Delhi, Mr. Vinay Kumar, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, Ms. Dwiparna Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.	‘Labour and social change in India’
18  January 2013 Friday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University, USA.	‘Monastic governments, colonial misogyny and the creation of postcolonial ignorance’
21  January 2013 Monday          3.00 pm	Seminar (India and the Wider World Series)	Ms. Sreemati Mitter, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University, USA.	‘A history of money in Palestine: The case of the Frozen Bank Accounts 1948’
22 January2013 Tuesday             5.00 pm	Public Lecture	Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development, New Delhi.	‘21st century Maoism in India’
22 January 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada.	‘Meat, momos, and butter tea: The foodways of Himalayan travel and work
29 January 2013 Tuesday            3.00 pm	Seminar (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Partha Ghosh, Senior Fellow, NMML.	‘Making sense of cross-border migrations in south Asia’
30 January 2013 Wednesday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Ms. V. Geetha, Author and Independent Researcher, Chennai.	‘Gandhi and non-violence’
31 January 2013 Thursday       3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Mushirul Hasan, National Archives of India, New Delhi.	‘Road to freedom: Prison and prisoners under the Raj’
1-2 February 2013 Friday & Saturday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Prof. Sajal Nag,  and Prof. Suryasikha Pathak, Assam University, Silchar and Prof. Gunnel Cederlof, Uppsala University, Sweden. Mr. Phillipe Ramirez, CNRS Paris, Dr. Jangkhomang Guite, Assam University, Dr. David Zou, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Rana Behal, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Jayeeta Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Joy Pachuau, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Mr. Kaustav Saikia, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Dr. H. Sudhir Singh, Manipur University, Mr. Santosh Hasnu, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Malem Ningthouja, Independent Scholar, New Delhi, Ms. Margaret Lyngdoh, University of Tartu, Estonia, Mr. C. Lalrozami, Hyderabad Central University, Mr. R.K. Debbarma, Hyderabad Central University.	‘Frontier India and the Northeast’
4 February 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Mr. Dunu Roy, Hazards Centre, New Delhi.	‘Itihas, samaj aur shahar’ (In Hindi)
5 February 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Julia Stephens, Harvard University, USA.	‘Shumsoonnissa’s case: Domesticity, economy and colonial secularisation’
6 February 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Rajen Harshe, South Asian University, New Delhi.	‘Revisiting Indo-African ties in the twenty-first century’
7 February 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Ms. Priyadarshini Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK.	‘Out of the ballot box: The role of political practices in Indian nationhood’
8 February 2013 Friday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Sraman Mukherjee, Presidency University, Kolkata.	“‘The bones ... are probably of no value ...” Evaluation of Buddhist relics in colonial south Asia’
11 February 2013 Monday          3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Kathleen D. Morrison, University of Chicago, USA.	‘Human face of the land: Why the past matters for India's environmental future’
12 February 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Hobbs the heretic’
13 February 2013 Wednesday   3.00 pm	Seminar (India and the Wider World Series)	Dr. Vivek Neelakantan, University of Sydney, Australia.	‘The Soekarnao Era:  Indonesia in the 1950’s’
14  February 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Varun Sahni, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Problematizing the BRICS: Southern hemisphere Grandeza, northern hemisphere geopolitics’
18 February 2013 Monday	Hindi Lecture	Shri Chandi Prasad Bhatt Environmentallist and Social activist, Chamoli, Uttarakhand	‘ Himalaya ka Paryavaran evam vikas: Chipko ke anubhav’
19 February 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Vibha Arora, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla.	‘Gandhigiri in Sikkim’
20 February 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Ashok Desai, Business World, New Delhi.	‘A view to the south: India and the Indian Ocean’
21 February 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Ms. Gitanjali Surendran, Harvard University, USA.	‘The importance of being modern: Discussions on Buddhism and modernity in India c. 1920-1950'
21 February 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar ( Annexe Building)	Dr. Christina Twomey, Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark.	‘Australian responses to the Indian famine, 1876-8: Empire, sympathy and photography’
25 February 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Stockholm University and Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.	‘Partition violence in Punjab in 1947’
26 February 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Kamal Nayan Choubey, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Law as a site of contestation between state and margin: Forest Rights Act and the politics of marginal society’
27 February 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Brij Tankha, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi.	‘India and Japan: Varieties of Asian regionalism’
28 Februrary 2013 Thursday            3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘The retro turn in Bombay cinema’
4 March 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Shalini Shah, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Ling, samaj aur itihas’ (In Hindi)
5 March 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Independent Researcher, Mumbai.	‘Trading crops, cultivating constituencies: The political economy of agricultural markets in Madhya Pradesh’
7 March 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Ayesha Kidwai, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘The abducted woman in the house: A study of the popular and the parliamentary discussions about their ‘plight’’
8 March 2013 Friday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Ms. Ritu Menon, Kali for Women, New Delhi.	‘Unravelling the personal and the political: The autobiographies of Nayantara Sahgal’
11 March 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Dr. Deepti Priya Mehrotra, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Reinventing non-violence: Ideas and ethics’
12 March 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. A.R. Vasavi, Senior Fellow, NMML.	‘Four emblematic figures and the making of a new India: 1997-2012’
13 March 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. J. Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.	‘How should India deal with climate change?’
14 March 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Ilyas Husain, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.	‘Jawaharlal Nehru and the language policy of Republican India’
15-16 March 2013 Friday-Saturday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Dr. Bhangya Bhukya,University of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Prof. Rahamath Tarikere, Kannada University, Hampi, Dr. Salma Ahmed Farooqui, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Dr. Bina Sengar, Aurangabad University, Aurangabad, Dr. Shaik Mussak Razak, Aurangabad, Dr. Radhika Seshan, Pune University, Pune, Prof. Atluri Murali, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Dr. Hilal Ahmed, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Prof. I. Thirumali, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Rethinking Deccan history:  Religion and culture through history in remaking and fashioning regional identities’
18-19 March 2013 Monday-Tuesday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Prof. Dipesh Chakravarty, University of Chicago.	‘Text, critics and the world: Conversations in the humanities ‘
19 March 2013 Tuesday         5.00 pm	Seminar (India and the Wider World Series)	Dr. Rohit Negi, Ambedkar University, Delhi.	‘An African century? Politics, geopolitics, and development in contemporary Africa’
20 March 2013 Wednesday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Dr. Faisal Devji, University of Oxford, UK.	‘Gandhi’
21-22 March 2013 Thursday-Friday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Dr. Veena Naregal, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Prof. Mushirul Hasan, National Archives of India, New Delhi, Prof. Krishna Kumar, Professor Emeritus, Central Institute of Education, Prof. Shahid Amin, University of Delhi, Delhi, Dr. Syeda Hamid, Planning Commission, New Delhi, Prof. Tapati Guha Thakurta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, Dr. Zafar Ahmed Siddiqi, Aligarh University , Dr. Ravikant, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Dr. Mahmood Farooqui, Independent Scholar, New Delhi. Dr. Veena Naregal, IEG Chair/Discussants: Prof. Rustom Bharucha/JNU, Madhav Prasad/EFLU, Hyderabad, Hari Vasudevan, Kolkata, Lawrence Liang, ALF/Bangalore, Milind Wakankar/AUD, Rashmi Bhatnagar, currently affiliated to DU, Prof. M.S.S. Pandian, JNU, Prof. Suhas Palshikar, University of Pune, Prof. Aniket Jaaware, University of Pune, Prof. Shivaji Panniker, AUD, Prof. Anita Rampal, CIE, Delhi, Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Jamia Milia, Delhi	‘Cultural institutions, knowledge arenas, post–1947: Revisiting the role of Maulana Azad’
25 March 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Soofia Siddique, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Remembering the Revolt of 1857’
26 March 2013 Tuesday 10.00 am	Panel Discussion	Dr. Inder Malhotra, Former Nehru Fellow and Eminent Journalist, Dr. Srinath Raghavan,  Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi,   Dr. Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi.	‘Revisiting the Bangladesh Liberation war’
1 April 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Navdeep Mathur, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.	‘Remaking the urban state in India’
2 April 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Mr. Prasanjeet Tribhuvan, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘On marijuana, police and culture: Reflections from fieldwork in the Parvati Valley, Himachal Pradesh’
3 April 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Dr. Parul Pandya Dhar, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘India and Southeast Asia: The iconography of early cultural interactions’
4 April 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Dr. Najaf Haider, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘India and the Great Divergence’
5 April 2013 Friday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Andre Beteille, Delhi School of Economics and National Research Professor, Government of India.	‘Two approaches to the study of society: Louis Dumont and MN Srinivas’
8 April 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Charu Gupta, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Dalit itihas’ (In Hindi)
9 April 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. William Pinch, Wesleyan University Connecticut, USA.	‘Staging the Mutiny:   Prostitutes and the cantonment bazaar in the making of 1857’
11-12 April 2013 Thursday-Friday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Prof. Venkatesh Kumar, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.	‘Reforming higher education:  States’ response to federal changes’
15 April 2013 Monday          3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Interrogating Social Justice Series)	Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘The significance of the state in Ambedkar's thought’
16 April 2013 Tuesday         3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Interrogating Social Justice Series)	Dr. K. Satyanarayana, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.	‘Caste, identity and Dalit movements in contemporary south India’
17 April 2013 Wednesday    3.00pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina, USA.	‘Fire by Night, Cloud by Day:  Indians, South Africans and Trinidadians remember postwar,             cold war London’
18 April 2013 Thursday     3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Interrogating Social Justice Series)	Prof. Sharmila Rege, University of Pune, Pune.	‘Reading B.R. Ambedkar in the university: Reflections on communities of meaning and anti-caste feminist theory’
22 April 2013 Monday     3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Deepak Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Science, religion and society: Snippets from colonial India’
23 April 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Deep structures: The capitals of the Sultans and the riverine plain of Delhi’
25-27-April 2013 Thursday-Saturday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Prof. Janaki Nair, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Thinking through the law: South Asian histories and the legal archives’
30 April 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Tripta Wahi, Affiliated Fellow, NMML and Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.	‘Irrigation, state and society in pre- colonial India'
1 May 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Raman Sukumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.	‘Elephants, empire and ecology in ancient India: Reflections for modern-day conservation’
2 May 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Ms. Vrinda Grover, Fellow, NMML.	‘The colonial origins of statutory immunities and their implications for the fundamental right to life’
3 May 2013 Friday             3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Rumina Sethi, Panjab University, Chandigarh.	‘Contentious histories: The case of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura’
6 May 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Apoorvanand, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Hindi chintan kee parampara’ (In Hindi)
7 May 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Indira Chakravarthi, Fellow, NMML.	‘Technology, medicine and public health: The sway of technological determinism’
8 May 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Sh. Chinmaya Gharekhan, Eminent Diplomat and Former Ambassador to the UN, New Delhi.	‘How relevant is the UN today?’
9 May 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Kalyani Menon, DePaul University, USA.	‘Prayer and power in the Sangh Parivar’
14 May 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Narendra Shukla, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Bharatiya swatantrata andolan aur pratibandhit sahitya : Ek adhyayan (1907-1935), (Proscribed literature and Indian freedom  movement: A study 1907-1935)’
15 May 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Dev Nathan, Institute for Human Development, New Delhi,  and Duke University, USA.	‘India, the emerging powers and the world economy’
21 May 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Udaya Kumar, Senior Fellow, NMML.	‘Petition as historiography: Dr. Palpu and Kerala's pasts’
22 May2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm.	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Vishvajit Pandya, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.	‘In Terra Nullius: The legacies of science and colonialism in the Andaman Islands’
24 May 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Workshop	Dr. Rohan D’Souza, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr. Priya Das, Independent Researcher, Mr. Anindya Datta, Doctoral Candidate, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Mr. Amit Aryan, Doctoral Candidate, University of Delhi, Delhi, Ms. Charu Singh, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Ms. Shomona Khanna, Advocate and Independent Researcher, New Delhi, Mr. Umesh Srinivasan, Doctoral Candidate, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, Ms. Aarthi Sridhar, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Mr. Saagar Tewari, Doctoral Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Mr. Nachiket Kelkar, Doctoral Candidate, Manipal University, Manipal.	‘Ecology and Society’
24 May 2013 Friday              5.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Harini Nagendra, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru.	‘The challenge of collective action: Ecological restoration by people in forests and cities’
28 May 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Malem Ningthouja, Independent Scholar, New Delhi.	‘The paradox of nationhood: Holiday politics in contemporary Manipur’
5 June 2013 Wednesday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Ms. Malika Virdi, Former Sarpanch, Pithoragarh, Uttrakhand.	‘Jangal aur jeevan’ (in Hindi)
16 July 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Pradeep Sharma, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Shram sangathano mein prakaryatmak rupantaran’ (Functional transformation in trade unions)
17 July 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Madhav Gadgil, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune.	‘Democracy and ecology in contemporary India’
22 July 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Panel Discussion	Smt. Mrinal Pandey, Senior Journalist and Writer, Mr. Mahmood Farooqui, Independent Scholar, New Delhi.	‘1857 – Punaradhyayan’ (in Hindi)
23 July 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Meenakshi Bharat, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Troubled testimonies: Culture in post-terrorist times’
24 July 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Sindhu Radhakrishna, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.	‘Rethinking animal-human boundaries: Musings of a primatologist’
30 July 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Venugopal Maddipati, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Space as effect or space as cause:  Gandhi and the production of architectural meaning in mid to late twentieth century India’
31 July 2013 Wednesday     3.00 pm	Public lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Kartik Shanker, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.	‘Wagging the dog: The use and abuse of science in marine conservation in Orissa’
6 August 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Making heritage matter: The state of archaeological conservation in India’
7 August 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Ambuj Sagar, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.	‘Knowledge and decision-making in the climate arena: National and international dimensions’
12 August 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Panel Discussion	Shri Shubranshu Chaudhary, C. G. Net Swar, Ghaziabad, Shri Urmilesh, Senior Journalist, New Delhi, Smt. Vasavi Kero, Member, State Women Commission, Jharkhand.	‘Samaj, itihas evam media’ (In Hindi)
13 August 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Shalin Jain, SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Sectarian lineages and secular legitimacy: The case of the medieval Jain community’
14 August 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Ullas Karanth, Science-Asia Wildlife Conservation Society and Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru.	‘Rescuing nature from growth and equity’
16 August 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Workshop	In association with Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Rewriting Mughal history’
20 August 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Ilina Sen, Senior Fellow, NMML.	‘Women and democratic movements in India: Changing dynamics, altered perspectives’
21 August 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Sagari R. Ramdas, ANTHRA, Hyderabad.	‘Contested landscapes and livelihoods: Interfaces and insights on forests, fields and grasslands’
22 August 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.	‘Speech and silence: The future of the academy'
23 August 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Workshop	In association with Ms. Shilpi Rajpal and Ms. Ranjana Saha, Doctoral Candidates, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘A social history of medicine’
27 August 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Shubhra Chakrabarti, Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Ramdulal Dey (1752-1852): A merchant with a difference in early 19th century Bengal’
3 September 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Rana Behal, Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Transforming agrarian communities of tribals, aboriginals and peasants into coolies: Assam tea plantations during colonial rule’
4 September 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. E. Somanathan, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.	‘Economics and the crisis of ecology’
5 September 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Vimala Ramachandran, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi.	‘Equity and quality are two sides of the same coin in India’s school education’
9 September2013 Monday 3.00 p.m.	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Asmita Kabra, Ambedkar University, Delhi.	‘Vikas visthapan evam vikalp’ (in Hindi)
10 September 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Upinder Singh, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Asoka and Kautilya’
11 September 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Shiv Visvanathan, O.P Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.	‘Impending battles: Science and democracy’
12 September 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Mr. T.N. Ninan, Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, New Delhi.	‘India in a changing Asia’
13 September 2013 Friday              3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Susie Tharu, Eminent Historian and Former Professor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.	‘Medicine, health and government in modern India: A small history’
17 September 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Jaya Tyagi, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Retrieving women's 'agency' from Puranic traditions: Representations and re-presentations of women in the Matsyamahāpurāṇa’
18 September 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Aditi Mukherji, International Water Management Institute, New Delhi.	‘An Evergreen Revolution in Eastern India: Are we on the right track?’
24 September 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Ginu Zacharia Oommen, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Gulf migration and  transnational religious networks: Understanding  the new religious movements in Kerala’
25 September 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Seema Alavi, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Muslim  cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire’
26 September 2013 Thursday       3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Gopal Guru, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Moral significance of justice: Foregrounding environmentalism in India’
27 September 2013 Friday            9.00 am	Workshop	In association with Dr. Rakhee Kalita, Fellow, NMML.	‘Writing the Northeast: The poetics and politics of representation’
4 October 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Conference	In association with Dr. Gopi Sundar, International Crane Foundation and Dr. Vikram Dayal, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.	‘Lands of plenty, grounds for change: Production, economics and wildlife conservation on agricultural landscapes’
4 October 2013 Friday            5.30 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Farhat Hasan, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Nationalism, nation-building and the historian of Mughal India’
9 October 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. C.R. Babu, Emeritus Professor, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Conservation of nature: A strategy for human endurance’
10 October 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Unique Identification Authority of India, New Delhi.	‘India and the Third Industrial Revolution’
11 October 2013 Friday               3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai	‘From Erode to Volga: Periyar EVR's European travels, 1932’
14 October 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Kama Maclean, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.	‘Title to be confirmed’
15 October 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Hari Sen, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Counting people, counting money: The Bhils in Mewar in the 19th century’
17 October 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. V.C. Bhutani, Formerly at University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘The making of the McMahon Line and its fate, 1900-47’
21 October 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Anirudh Deshpande, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Samaj, itihas evam Bharatiya cinema’ (In Hindi)
22 October 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Naina Dayal, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Some sutas of the Mahabharata’
23 October 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Lakshmi Subramanian, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.	‘Greater India or the global Indian? Reflections on the Indian Ocean’
24 October 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Shohini Ghosh, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.	‘Transfigured landscape: Documentary/cinema and the violence in Kashmir’
25 October 2013 Friday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA.	‘Meaningful nature in environmental history’
28 October 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Seminar	Dr. Manisha Priyam, Gargi College, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Aligning opportunities and interests: Teachers, unions, and school reforms in Andhra and Bihar’
29 October 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Parimala V. Rao, Junior Fellow, NMML.	‘Revisiting Macaulay: Teachers and students c. 1835’
30 October 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Aparajita Datta, Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore.	‘Conservation challenges in Northeast India: Science, policy, tribal rights and development’
31 October 2013 Thursday 3.00 pm	Public Lecture	Prof. Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘The university, transformations and the work of intellect’
1 November 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Workshop	In association with Dr. Joy Pachuau, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Prof. Willem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.	‘History through photographs: Exploring the visual landscape of the Northeast India’
1 November 2013 Friday              5.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Dr. Rustom Bharucha, Ambedkar University, Delhi.	‘Between history and performance: Reflections on the limits of disciplines’
5 November 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Ranjeeta Dutta, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.	‘Saints and sinners: The Srivaishnava community and networks of control in the early modern Tamil region’
6 November 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture  (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Rinki Sarkar, Independent Researcher and Economist, New Delhi	‘Endangered landscapes, unperturbed response: Socio-ecological concerns in the western Himalayas’
8 November 2013 Friday             3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Aloka Parasher Sen, University of  Hyderabad, Hyderabad.	‘The fragment in history: Text object and local history in early India’
12 November 2013 Tuesday 3.00pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. MSS Pandian, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Two deaths: Some reflections on nationalism’
13 November 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. M. Rajeevan, Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi.	‘The changing monsoon and its manifold implications’
15 November 2013 Friday             3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Mariam Dossal, Former Professor, University of Mumbai, Mumbai.	‘Shared history, shared culture: Kutch, Sind and the river Indus’
18 November 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Prof. Pushpesh Pant, Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Badaltay vishva mein Bharat ki bhumika’ (In Hindi)
19 November 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi, Independent Researcher.	‘Indira Gandhi, science and technology’
20 November 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Jayanta Bandopadhyaya, Formerly at  Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), Kolkata.	‘The water future of south Asia: The option for advancing ecological engineering’
21 November 2013 Thursday        3.00 pm	Public Lecture (India and the Wider World Series)	Prof. Radhika Singha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Indian labour and the geographies of the Great War’
26 November 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Malashri Lal, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Fleeting words and imagined bodies: Oral narratives and women’
27 November 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Prof. Harsh K. Gupta, National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi.	‘Earthquakes: How to cope with them’
29 November 2013 Friday            3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Prof. Kumkum Roy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘On the trail of the Yak tail: Tangled histories of a symbol of ritual and power’
3 December 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Prof. Nasir Tyabji, Former   NMML Fellow, and Former Professor, Independent Researcher Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.	‘Saving capitalism from the capitalists: Early post independence travails’
4 December 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Pradip Prabhu, Barefoot Academy of Governance, Thane.	‘Decolonizing the forest: The new challenges’
6 December 2013 Friday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Interrogating Social Justice Series)	Dr. Shyam Babu, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.	‘How we failed social justice: Mismatch of constitutional provisions and institutional arrangements’
10 December 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Himanshu Roy, Fellow, NMML.	‘Salwa Judum: Interrogating the state and the Maoists’
13 December 2013 Friday 9.00 am	Workshop	In association with Dr. Sangeeta Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	‘Reading Adivasi histories’
16 December 2013 Monday 3.00 pm	Hindi Lecture	Dr. Sanjay Sharma, Ambedkar Univesity, Delhi.	‘Khairat, jan-kalyan aur  upniveshik rajya: Uttar Bharat ke  akalon ke sandarbh mein’ (In Hindi)
17 December 2013 Tuesday 3.00 pm	Weekly Seminar	Dr. Smita Mitra, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi, Delhi.	‘Writing the star: Popular Bangla cinema (1950-70) and the archive’
18 December 2013 Wednesday    3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Science, Society and Nature Series)	Dr. Uma Ramakrishnan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru.	‘DNA studies and evolutionary history: Why species survival is more than a game of numbers’
20 December 2013 Friday              3.00 pm	Public Lecture (Rethinking History Series)	Dr. Prem Chowdhry, Former Fellow, NMML.	‘On claiming inheritance: Emerging patterns among women of Haryana’