North East and Act East

Speaker: Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, former Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan and Myanmar

 

Moderator: Shri Kishalay Bhattacharjee

 

South Asia and South East Asia between themselves comprise two of the most populous regions of the world. The region is fractious and studies on it are primarily driven by disasters and conflict. India’s Northeast is one such are until not long back marginal to Indian history, that has been caught in the throes of imperial expansion, nationalism, partition, isolation and dependence in the 20th century. This series of lectures organised in collaboration with the National Foundation of India (NFI) and curated by journalist and author, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, hopes to shed light on the people and places that are caught in these larger forces and bridge at least some gaps in understanding between and within the two regions