India now and in the future
A discussion day
Saturday 19 September, 10.30–16.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£28, Members and
concessions £20
Speakers from different backgrounds offer their points of view
on how and why India is aiming to develop in the
future.
They include:
- Paul Smith, Head of the Millennium
Seed Bank, Kew at Wakehurst Place
Feeding India and the world: seed banks and human adaptation
- Seema Anand, independent scholar and
cultural historian
The deification of nature: gods in the landscape
- Nirmalya Kumar, Professor of
Marketing and Head of the Birla India Centre at the London Business
School
India’s global powerhouses: how they are
taking on the world
- Sunil Khilnani, Professor and
Director of the South Asia Studies Program, John Hopkins
University, Washington, author of The Idea of
India
Ideas of India: today and tomorrow
Related to the exhibitions India Landscape and
Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of
Jodhpur.
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Image: Death of Vali; Rama and Lakshmana
Wait out the Monsoon (detail). Illustration from the
Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas(1532–1623) Jodhpur, c. 1775;
62.7 x 134.5 cm. © Mehrangarh Museum Trust