MAHATMA VERSUS MODI? INDIAN DEMOCRACY AT 70
- π€ Speaker: Multiple Speakers (see description for details) π Website
- π Date & Time: Tuesday 17 October 2017, 18:00 - 19:30
- π Venue: McCrum Lecture Theatre (behind the Eagle pub), Bene't St
Abstract
Historians Shruti Kapila and Faisal Devji (Oxford) will be in conversation with writer Pankaj Mishra and novelist and journalist Chandrahas Choudury, moderated by historian Maria Misra (Oxford), on the past present and future of India. How did Gandhi and his visible politics of truth lay the foundations of India democracy and has Modi transformed Indian democracy beyond recognition? How can we understand the relationship between media and truth from worldβs largest democracy.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2017 series.
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Tuesday 17 October 2017, 18:00-19:30