April 6, 2024
9:00 am

Registration

6 April
Time:  9:00 am - 10:00 am
Location: 
10:00 am

Opening Session

6 April
Time:  10:00 am - 10:15 am
Location: 
Speaker:  Om Routray

Welcome Address and Introducing ICA

Om Routray
Founder, ICA

10:15 am

Rice at the Centre of the Table: Understanding Indian Heirloom Rice

6 April
Time:  10:15 am - 11:15 am
Location: 

Moderator:
Sankalp Vishnu: Author and Food Critic with Times Food.

Speaker:
Mili Dubey: Director, Food and Agri, PHD Chamber of Commerce
Deepak Verma: Domain Lead, Agriculture, ONDC
Shridula Chatterjee: Head Chef at Mezze Mambo, New Delhi

11:15 am

Tea Break

6 April
Time:  11:15 am - 11:30 am
Location: 
11:30 am

India’s Rice Future: In the shadows of climate change, sustainability and consumer pull

6 April
Time:  11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 

Moderator: Om Routray

Speaker:
Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, CEO, ekgaon
Sheetal Sharma, Senior Scientist, IRRI
Eram Rao, Professor of Food Technology

1:00 pm

Lunch

6 April
Time:  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: 
2:00 pm

A Fine Grained Heritage (Part I)

6 April
Time:  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: 

‘India’s heritage of heirloom rice – Centrality in socio-cultural and religious landscape’

Moderator: Priyadarshini Chatterjee

Discussant: Charmaine O'Brien
Paper Presenters: Harshita Lalwani, Sunaina Dhir, Rachit Keertiman

3:00 pm

Late afternoon interlude

6 April
Time:  3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: 
3:15 pm

A Fine Grained Heritage (Part II)

6 April
Time:  3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Location: 

‘India’s heritage of heirloom rice – Centrality in socio-cultural and religious landscape’

Moderator: Avantika Bhuyan
Discussant: Charmaine O'Brien
Paper Presenters: Suraj Gogoi, Abdul Kalam Azad, Rubeka Idrisi, Santa Nibedita

4:15 pm

ICA Indian Food Writing Prize 2024

6 April
Time:  4:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Address: Colleen Taylor Sen, Author

Announcement of the ICA Writing Prize 2024

April 7, 2024
9:30 am

Registration and Morning cuppa

7 April
Time:  9:30 am - 10:00 am
Location: 
10:00 am

ICA Spotlight

kirteeman
Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal
7 April
Time:  10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: 

Moderator: Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal

Exploring indigenous food of Odisha – away from the exotic gaze by
Chef Rachit Keertiman

Making Feni the next global tipple by Hansel Vaz

11:00 am

Words : Reclaiming the language of writing about Indian food

Tanushree Bhowmik
7 April
Time:  11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: 

Moderator: Tanushree Bhowmik

Panellists:
Prof Ishita Dey, Professor of Sociology, SAU
Sharanya Deepak, Writer and Editor
Archana Nathan, Senior Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House India

12:00 pm

Taming the Shrew : Understanding food content on social media

7 April
Time:  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: 

Moderator: Ruth D'Souza Prabhu

Panellists:
Anubhav Sapra, Founder, Delhi Food Walks
Shruthi Taneja, Founder, Nivaala

1:00 pm

Lunch

7 April
Time:  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: 
2:00 pm

Gaze : Visual media’s tryst with Indian food

7 April
Time:  2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Location: 

Moderator: Shubhra Chatterjee

Panellists:
Rahee Punyashloka - Writer, Artist, Scholar, filmmaker
Surajit Sarkar - Associate Professor, Ambedkar University; President, Oral History Association of India

3:15 pm

Late Afternoon Interlude

7 April
Time:  3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Location: 
3:45 pm

Felicitations

7 April
Time:  3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Location: 
4:15 pm

Keynote Address by Prof Krishnendu Ray

Krishnendu Ray
7 April
Time:  4:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Location: 
Speaker:  Krishnendu Ray
4:45 pm

Closing Notes and Vote of Thanks

7 April
Time:  4:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Om Routray, Co-Founder, ICA

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