Whither India?
Coalition for a Democratic India presents a public seminar series to understand and analyze the current India and to co-imagine a sustainable and just future.
Monumental changes are taking place in India and the world. They are pointing towards the necessity of new relations between humans and humans and humans and nature. While conditions call for the rise of the new, the powerful status quoists want to block all attempts at the transformation of conditions and continue the old.
This conflict between changing conditions and rigid authority is giving rise to anarchy and violence, death and devastation, threatening the very habitat of humans. While great changes are taking place, our consciousness is not in sync with the changes. For instance, we keep talking in terms of old paradigms and idioms, Institutions and ideas, causing a serious crisis of imagination of self and the society.
"Whither India?" public seminar series will cognize and analyze the present state of affairs in India, its direction and perspectives for future based on the conditions and aspirations of peoples for affirmation of their rights. We will also explore possible ways of overcoming this crisis of imagination.
Whither India 02 (WI02)
Politics in India: Movements in the 21st Century
The Rise of Majoritarian Sentiments in India and the Weakening of Institutional Structures: People's Response
Prof. Apoorvanand
Purwa Bhardwaj
October 24th, 2018, 7.00 pm, Room 4-163, MIT, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge MA.
RSVP: coalition4india@co4di.org or on facebook
Some of Mr. Takle's news stories on the agrarian crisis:
https://www.theweek.in/theweek/statescan/erratic-pulse.html
https://www.magzter.com/articles/3180/208957/58a2d2dacfe20
https://www.theweek.in/…/s…/Marathwadas-agrarian-crisis.html
Whither India 01 (WI01)
Rural Distress and Agrarian Crisis in India: Policy Failure or Failure by Policy?- Mr. Niranjan Takle
October 6th, 2018, 4.00 pm
Room 4-163, MIT, 77 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA, U.S.A.
RSVP: coalition4india@co4di.org or on facebook
In the inaugural seminar of "Whither India?", noted Indian journalist Mr. Niranjan Takle will discuss the Indian agrarian crisis and the role of official policy.
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Trained as an engineer, Mr. Takle turned to journalism with a strong urge to counter the trend of media being used for political manipulation and propaganda. He joined CNN's Indian partner, CNN-IBN, in 2005 and covered rural Maharashtra. After covering rural and agricultural issues extensively for six years, in 2011, he moved from Nagpur to Bombay to work with "The Week". He resigned from "The Week" on being denied publication for his investigative story, “The Mysterious Death of Judge Loya.”
He tweets at @niranjan_takle
