Events - 2018

* All events are subject to last minute change

Day 2 Aug 18th
Day 2 Aug 18th
Venue 9:30-11:00am 11:30-1:00pm 2:00-3:30pm 4:00-5:30pm
Sri Aurobindo Society Bharat Shakti: India & the Changing World

Abhijit Iyer Mitra

Bibek Debroy

Gautam Chikermane (Moderator)

Sanjeev Sanyal

Youth, Education and Public Engagement

Anand Ranganathan (Moderator)

Kanchan Gupta

Shubhrashtha

Vivek Agnihotri

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Desha or Darshana: The Meaning of India

Bibek Debroy

Makarand R Paranjape (Moderator)

Swapan Dasgupta

Dolls, Divas or Devis: REEL Women/REAL Women

Pallavi Joshi

Kalki Koechlin

Vivek Agnihotri (Moderator)

Sri Aurobindo Society First Floor Fighting scientific and cultural illiteracy in Tamil Nadu using Tamizh's innate strengths

Aravindan Neelakandan (Moderator)

Jataayu

Kanagaraj Easwaran

Haran Prasanna

Uthra Dorairajan

Salaam Balak - Future of Children in India

V. Bharathi Harishankar

Justice Chandru (Moderator)

Nalini Ranganathan

Sandhya Jaichandren

Indo-French Connections

Catherine Omerin

Kiran Vyas

Lalit Verma (Moderator)

Educating India: From Status Quo to Radical Reform

Matri Prasad

Makarand R Paranjape (Moderator)

Sachidananda Mohanty

Venkata Raghotham

Sri Aurobindo Society Ground Floor Mission 2019

Abhijit Majumder (Moderator)

Baijayant Jay Panda

Rajat Sethi

Swapan Dasgupta

Sex, Law & Citizenship: Beyond Triple Talaq & Section 377 I.P.C ( Indian Penal Code)

Abhijit Iyer Mitra

Smita Barooah

Justice Jaichandren (Moderator)

Bader Sayeed

Mainstream Media vs Social Media: Changing the Narrative

Abhijit Majumder

Anand Ranganathan

Gautam Chikermane (Moderator)

Smita Barooah

Politics of Mandir/Masjid: Secularism & Nationalism

Kanchan Gupta (Moderator)

Meenakshi Jain

Michel Danino

Shubrashtha




Day 3 Aug 19th
Day 3 Aug 19th
Venue 9:30-11:00am 11:30-1:00pm 2:00-3:30pm 4:00-5:30pm
Sri Aurobindo Society Gods, Heroes & Demons: Mythology for Our Times

Amish Tripathi

Bibek Debroy

Nandini Sengupta (Moderator)

Can India become an Economic Powerhouse?

Venkataraman Anantha Nageswaran

Bibek Debroy

R.Jagannathan (Moderator)

Sanjeev Sanyal

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Art, Heritage & Space: From Conservation to Innovation

Lalit Verma (Moderator)

Devdip Ganguli

Sashikala Ananth

Satish Gupta

Aryans, Dravidians, Indians: Future of the Past

Aravindan Neelakandan

Jataayu

Michel Danino

Venkata Raghotham (Moderator)

Sri Aurobindo Society First Floor Mental Health & Spiritual Well-Being

Alok Pandey

Pariksith Singh

Smita Barooah (Moderator)

Sunil Narayan

Hot Wired: Technology, Energy & Sustainability

Pariksith Singh

Somdatta Singh (Moderator)

Toine Van Megen

Yogini Deshpande

Identity & Empowerment: Where is the Indian Woman Today?

Gayatri Iyer

Kalki Koechlin

Pallavi Joshi (Moderator)

Somdatta Singh

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: Ageing, Death & Immortality

Alok Pandey

Anand Kumar (Moderator)

Kiran Vyas

Pariksith Singh

Sri Aurobindo Society Ground Floor Changing India: Corruption & Electoral Reforms

Anand Ranganathan

Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran (Moderator)

Justice Jaichandren

R. Jagannathan

Authorship and Authority: Media, Marketing, Literature

Amish Tripathi

Anand Ranganathan

Makarand R. Paranjape (Moderator)

Vivek Agnihotri

Re-writing History: Pitfalls & Opportunities

Meenakshi Jain

Rajat Sethi

Michel Danino (Moderator)

Prasenjit K. Basu

Sanskrit, Sanskriti & The Clasp of Civilizations: Towards a Global Renaissance

Bibek Debroy

Richard Hartz (Moderator)

Sampadananda Mishra

Sashikala Ananth