40 Leading Thinkers Speak out on 1-Year of Modi Government

On the 16th-17th May 2015 the Idea of India Collective organised a Conclave in the Constitution Club in New Delhi. The Conclave brought together a large number of intellectuals, thinkers and activists, who spoke on various aspects on the current policy and their impact on the idea of an inclusive and plural India.

Idea of India is a large, inclusive collective of persons, including thinkers, students, activists and concerned citizens, who have come together around the core conviction that central to our idea of India is the affirmation of its diversity. The India we are part of belongs equally to all persons who make it its own – no matter what their religious faith (or the lack of it), their gender, caste, class, language, physical abilities and sexual orientation. This video introduces all the sessions, which have now been uploaded by the Idea of India Collective.

The links for the other videos that have been uploaded are given below:

Environment and Development: Priya Pilai, Prabir Purkayastha, Shekhar Singh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3uKW_VU2IA

The Social Sector : Abhijit Sen, Reetika Khera, Subrat Das
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFzozkzsD3k

Education: Apoorvanand, Farida Khan, Zoya Hasan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flx0Q-j7Omo

The Economy: Atul Sood, Deepak Nayyar, Prabhat Patnaik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZ5iR4SGIk

Culture and Heritage: Apoorvanand, Dhruv Sangari, Yousuf Saeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNLdf3viB7Y

Media: Hartosh Singh Bal, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Seema Mustafa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF5iHdNg3e4

Secularism and Democracy: Ashish Nandy, Harsh Mander, Neera Chandoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaWvlZvK2gw

Law and Justice: Indira Jaisingh, Nitya Ramakrishnan, Vrinda Grover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8IB-HeNChw

Science & Reason: Dinesh Abrol, Prabir Purkayastha, Vineeta Bal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPUsMRWEKCA

Civic Dissent: Anil Choudhry, John Dayal, Vani Subramaniam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NwbKv45UY

History: Amar Farooqui, KM Shrimali, Mridula Mukherjee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3ix0RrKkA

Gender and Caste: Nivedita Menon, Satish Deshpande, Uma Chakravarty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOKDTXgr1BM

Foreign Policy: Nirupam Sen, Seema Mustafa, Siddharth Vardarajan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gbKsB22QU

Constitutional Values: Aditya Mukherjee, Apoorvanand, Neelabh Mishra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvXMhl4ix50

Agrarian Distress: Harsh Mander, Utsa Patnaik, Vijoo Krishnan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTzFxbVwHEE