Introductory Remarks: Shri Prabhat Kumar, former Cabinet Secretary & President, IC Centre for Governance

 

Keynote Speakers: Shri M Ramachandran, IAS (Retd), former Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development; and Shri Balvinder Kumar, I.A.S, Vice Chairman Delhi Development Authority (DDA)

 

Chairman: Shri Syed S. Mahdi, former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia

 

 

Towards Sustainable Green Energy Future

Speaker: Dr. Anil Kakodkar, INAE Satish Dhawan Chair of Engineering Eminence and former Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India

 

Chair: Shri Ronen Sen, President, Federation of Indo-German Societies in India

 

Army and Nation: How India’s Founders Made its Army Safe for Democracy

Speaker: Prof. Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, Chair, Department of Political Science, Yale University and author of the forthcoming book Army and Nation – The Military and Indian Democracy  Since Independence (Permanent Black, 2015)

 

Chair: Dr. Srinath Raghavan

 

At Indian Independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited – conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups posed a threat to democracy. Steven Wilkinson draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed

The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor

 

 Followed by a  panel discussion 

Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator

 

Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

 

The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015 

The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor

 

 Followed by a  panel discussion 

Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator

 

Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

 

The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015 

The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor

 

 Followed by a  panel discussion 

Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator

 

Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

 

The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015 

The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor

 

 Followed by a  panel discussion 

Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator

 

Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

 

The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015 

The B.G. Verghese Memorial Lecture by Gopalkrishna Gandhi, civil servant, diplomat, former governor

 

 Followed by a  panel discussion 

Panelists: Shubha Mudgal, classical singer; Nilanjana Roy, literary critic and columnist; and Ashok Malik, columnist and TV commentator

 

Moderator: Siddharth Varadarajan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory

 

The lecture will be preceded by presentation of Chameli Devi Awards 2015