10 January 2024, 06:00 pm
Seminar on Keys to Governance: Free, Pluralistic and Independent Media
Programme Type
Discussions, Webcasts
Venue
Conference Room I, IIC main building

Speakers: Dr. Rakesh Batabyal, Associate Professor, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University;
Bharat Bhushan, South Asia Editor, 360 info; N. R. Mohanty, Senior journalist; and  Bhasha Singh, Senior journalist and writer
 
Moderator: Suhas Borker, Managing Trustee, D. S. Borker Memorial Foundation, Editor Citizens First TV (CFTV) and Trustee, IIC

This is the ninth annual seminar in the series 'Keys to Governance'; the earlier eight seminars in the series were on 'Compliance and Delivery' (2016), 'Political Will' (2017) , 'Constitution as Ideology' (2018), 'Education as Empowerment' (2019)  'Steel Frame' (2020), Independence of Judiciary (2021), Constitutional Morality (2022) and Social and Communal Harmony (2023).
 
The annual seminar is held in remembrance of Shekhar Borker, 'Banana Boy' on the Indian postage stamp, private sector administrator, citizen environmentalist and advocate of empowerment of persons of disabilities who passed away in 2015 on 7 January.       
 
(Collaboration: D. S. Borker Memorial Foundation)