DAY ONE: JUNE
7, 2007 / DAY TWO:
JUNE
8, 2007
INDIA: CRITICAL FUTURES
LECTURE
9.00 a.m. –
10.30 a.m.
Keynote speaker:
Nobel Laureate Sir
V.S. Naipaul
Break:
10.30 a.m.
– 11.00 a.m.
Panel 1: SHINING
INDIA, SIMMERING INDIA »
11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
India is a lucrative business proposition
today. Retail. Infrastructure. Consumer
goods. Everything speaks of a new self-confidence.
But how is India really Responding to globalization
and the economic path it has been set on?
Several large-scale ventures in India have
been triggering a backlash. Be it the Tata
Motors project at Singur in Bengal or the
Indonesian SalimGroup chemical project at
Nandigram.
Confirmed speakers:
Aruna
Roy, Social Activist, Mazdoor
Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), Organization
for the Empowerment of Workers and Peasants
Digvijay
Singh, General Secretary Congress
Party and former Chief Minister of Madhya
Pradesh
Dr
J. J. Irani, Director of Tata
Sons
Lady
Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Founder
and Chief Executive of E L Rothschild LLC,
a private investment company
Manvendra
Singh, BJP MP, Spokesperson
Lunch:
12.30 - 1.30 p.m.
Panel 2: RIDDLE OF
THE YOUNG
»
1.30 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.
Changing ethics, moralities, ambitions,
identities. Nationalistic but no longer
patriotic. New activism. New materialism.
Dynamic, restless, rooted, yet ready to
fling off the old. What makes them tick?
In which direction will they take India?
Young leaders offer insights.
Confirmed Speakers:
Arun
Maira, Chairman, Boston Consulting
Group
Atul
Punj, Chairman, Punj Lloyd
Omar Abdullah, President of
National Conference and Former Union Minister
of State, Commerce and Industry and External
Affairs
Rajiv
Pratap Rudy, Former Minister
for Civil Aviation and Former Minister of
State, Commerce
Sandeep
Panday, Senior Social Activist,
Co-Founder 'Asha for Education' and Leader,
National Alliance of People's Movement (NAPM)
Manish
Tewari, Secretary
AICC and former president of the Youth Congress
and NSUI
BREAK:
3.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
INDIA: CRITICAL FUTURES
LECTURE
3.30 p.m. –
5 p.m.
Keynote speaker:
Kapil
Sibal, Union Minister for Science
and Technology
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