13 Fri 10.15
A.M
E Hotel
Gate No. 1 Express Avenue Mall,
Patullos Road
Chennai 600 002
“Idea
of India”
“No other
spot in all the world can touch your heart as home; let
fortune
bless or fortune curse, from hence you shall not roam.”
– Vorosmarty Mihaly
India as “home” evokes many different
concepts in one’s mind. With so many disparate views, it begs the
question: What is India? Who and what shape the country that 1.3 billion
people call home? Through history and especially since 1947, many
competing understandings of India have animated public discussion and
politics. Each of thesepersp ectives has consequences for our lives
and futures. This talk embraces history, politics, culture,
nationalism and power in its overview of this first-order question about
citizenship.
Swarna Rajagopalan is a
political scientist by training and a writer.Nationalism and citizenship are questions
to which her work, as a scholar and an activist, returns
constantly. She writes for the media on these and other topics. She is the founder
of The Prajnya Trust, a Chennai-based non-profit working in the
areas of gender equality and peace. She is also a founding member of the
Women’s Regional Network.
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