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A discussion with Shashi Tharoor On his book ‘India Shastra – Reflections on the Nation in our time’ ​
EVENT DETAILS
DATE		Tuesday, July 14, 2015
TIME		6:30 PM  - 7:30 PM (Registration: 6:00 pm onwards)
LOCATION		Durbar Hall, Asiatic Society, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Mumbai
SPEAKERS		Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs Mr. James Crabtree, Mumbai Bureau Chief, Financial Times Ms. Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder & Executive Director, Gateway House
ABOUT THE EVENT
Today, India is going through a sea change in its governance. The domestic, foreign and economic policy, politics and civil rights are currently in a phase of transition. The paradigm shift in policies and administration has been set off by the Narendra Modi led BJP Government, after receiving a huge mandate in the 2014 general election. While the economy is showing signs of revival, spurred by the new foreign policy and encouragement of businesses, the domestic policy is being criticised on grounds of majoritarianism and communalism. ​ The present policies, therefore, pose a larger question. Is the Government short-sighted in its approach and are we compromising on the bigger constitutional goals in implementing these policies? Is it a case of social inclusion being neglected and a narrow idea of development being prioritized? Are we chasing some delusional indices such as the Growth Rate and the GDP? Dr Shashi Tharoor, one of the most acclaimed and insightful writers would be in conversation with Mr. James Crabtree and Ms. Manjeet Kripalani to unmask the complex issues of the current Indian society.  India Shastra is an attempt to chronicle the present day India for the future generations.
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SPEAKERS   Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs  Dr. Shashi Tharoor is the bestselling author of fifteen previous books, both fiction and non-fiction, including, the most recently released ‘India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time’ besides being a noted critic and columnist, a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He served 29 years at the United Nations, culminating as Under-Secretary General under Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organization. As India’s official candidate to succeed Annan as UN Secretary-General, he emerged a strong second (to Ban Ki-Moon) out of seven contenders. On returning to India he contested the 2009 elections on behalf of the Indian National Congress, and was elected to Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram. Re-elected in 2014, he chairs Parliament’s External Affairs Committee. Dr. Shashi Tharoor’s books include the path-breaking satire The Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997) and most recently, the visionary Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century (2012). He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, was honoured as “New Age Politician of the Year” in 2010, and pioneered among Indian politicians the use of Twitter, where he has over two and a half million followers as of 2014. Dr. Tharoor earned his Ph.D. at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at the age of 22, and was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998 as a “Global Leader of Tomorrow.” He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians.     Mr. James Crabtree, Mumbai Bureau Chief, Financial Times James Crabtree leads coverage of corporate India for the FT, having previously worked on the paper's opinion page in London, as Comment Editor. Prior to joining the FT, James was the deputy editor of Prospect, Britain's leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas. He has also written for a range of global publications, from the Economist to Wired. Before to returning to journalism, James worked as a senior policy advisor in the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, and also for various think tanks in London and Washington DC. He spent a number of years living in the United States, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Mary, their baby son Alexander, and two large fluffy Maine Coon cats.     Ms. Manjeet Kripalani, Co-founder and Executive Director, Gateway House Manjeet Kripalani is the co-founder of Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, and acts as the executive director of the institution. Prior to the founding of Gateway House, Kripalani was India Bureau chief of Businessweek magazine from 1996 to 2009. During her extensive career in journalism (Businessweek, Worth and Forbes magazines, New York), she has won several awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, Overseas Press Club and Daniel Pearl Awards.   Kripalani was the 2006-07 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, which inspired her to found Gateway House. Her political career spans being the deputy press secretary to Steve Forbes during his first run in 1995-96 as Republican candidate for U.S. President in New Jersey, to being press secretary for the Lok Sabha campaign for independent candidate Meera Sanyal in 2008 and 2014 in Mumbai. Kripalani holds two bachelor’s degrees from Bombay University (Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Arts in English and History) and a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York. She is a member of the Asian advisory board of the International Centre for Journalists and the Overseas Press Club, and sits on the executive board of Gateway House, the Indian Liberal Group and Emancipaction, all of which are non-profit organizations. We appreciate the support of ​

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