Event Start Date: July 18, 2024 | Event End Date: July 18, 2024 | Event Venue: Grand Hotel, Kochi |
Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) is organising a Lecture on ‘Indian Democracy: Evolution and Challenges’ by Prof. Ashutosh Varshney to be held on July 18, 2024 (Thursday) at 4 PM at the Grand Hotel, Kochi.
This event will mark the beginning of CPPR’s 20th Anniversary Commemorations and will be inaugurated by Adv. M Anilkumar.
Chief Guest: Adv. M Anilkumar, Mayor of Kochi Corporation
Speaker: Prof. Ashutosh Varshney
Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia. Previously, he taught at Harvard (1989-98) and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001-2008).
His books include Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy (2013), Collective Violence in Indonesia (2009), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale 2002), India in the Era of Economic Reforms (1999), and Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge 1995).
He served on the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Millennium Task Force on Poverty (2002-5). He has also served as an adviser to the World Bank, UNDP and the Club of Madrid.