The Idea of India (Bangalore), 2017

This year, as we complete 70 years of Independence, the History for Peace annual conference, held in Calcutta from 14 to 17 August 2017, looked at India’s engagement or its lack thereof with institutionalized, collective and individual histories that make up the ‘Idea of India’. The many scholars, arts practitioners and intellectuals sharing their views on the subject included Prof Romila Thapar, Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Prof Krishna Kumar, Prof Vijay Prashad, Sudhanva Deshpande and Ravish Kumar, to name just a few.

We are pleased to carry the conversations further in Bangalore with a conference organized in association with Vidyashilp Academy.

The speakers at the conference include:

Geetha Narayanan

Padma Sarangpani

Anam Zakaria

Manosh Chowdhury

Naeem Mohaiemen

Arundhati Ghosh

Komita Dhanda

T. Sanathanan

Abeer Gupta

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For the conference brochure, click here.