25 June 2021, 04:00 pm
RIVER DIALOGUES
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts

Of Travel and the River

Speakers: Ms Pallavi Aiyar, award winning foreign correspondent, author of non-fiction books on China and Europe and, Associate Editor, The Globalist; Shri Samrat X Choudhury, journalist and author of the recently published book The Braided River: A Journey Along the Brahmaputra (HarperCollins, 2021); and Mr. Victor Mallet, Chief, The Financial Times, Paris and author of River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (Oxford University Press, 2017)
 
Chair: Prof. Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Professor and Executive Dean, Director, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
 
A series of talks and dialogues that hope to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions and opening streams of thought for a future with exciting possibilities
 
(Collaboration: New Imaginations, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University)