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Live Blog: India Ideas Conclave 2016
Swarajya Staff
Nov 22, 2016, 11:26 AM | Updated 11:26 AM IST
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India Ideas Conclave, a flagship program of the India Foundation, brings together noted intellectuals, policy-makers and political leaders from India and around the world. India Foundation is an independent think tank based in New Delhi that focuses on the issues, challenges and opportunities of the Indian polity. The 3rd edition of the conclave is currently underway in Goa.
We will be bringing you pictures, comments and other updates from the event, all in the blog below:
DAY TWO: NOVEMBER 5
9:30 AM - There is a need to take a fresh look at practices & procedures of Parliament after 70 yrs of Governance in India, says A Surya Prakash, chairperson of Prasar Bharati.
9:41 AM - Archana Chitnis, Ministry of Women and Child Development of Madhya Pradesh, is expressing views on Governance.
WCD Minister Madhya Pradesh Archana Chitnis Ji expressing views on Governance @70 @IICGoa2016 #IndiaIdeas2016 pic.twitter.com/fOis8fdZQW
— Ajay Dhawle (@AjayDhawle) November 5, 2016
10:00 AM- Election Commission should be given more teeth to enforce accountability and transparency in political parties, says Baijayant Jay Panda.
10: 11 AM- Himanta Biswa Sarma, Education, Health and Finance Minister of Assam, says:
10:35 AM- M J Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs, says:
Chairing the session on India Global @ 70 at the 3rd #IndiaIdeas2016 conclave in Goa pic.twitter.com/9sNJ8AF0AG
— M.J. Akbar (@mjakbar) November 5, 2016
11:02 AM- Daniel Twining, Director & Senior Fellow of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, says:
11: 20 AM- Patrick French, a British writer and historian, says:
11:38 AM- Ambassador James Tien regrets the lack of having good diplomatic relations between India and Taiwan.
1:05 PM- Dattatreya Hosabale, Joint General Secretary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, says:
1:25 PM- Maulana Mahmood Madani, former Member of Parliament, says:
3:25 PM- Jagdeesh Kumar, Vice Chancellor Jawaharlal Nehru University , says:
3:40 PM- Harsh V. Pant, professor of international relations at King's College London, says:
4:10 PM- An outstanding presentation by Mohandas Pai on higher education challenges and roadmap.
.@TVMohandasPai We are not putting money into content creation. All states should do this in their own languages #education#IndiaIdeas2016
— Swarajya (@SwarajyaMag) November 5, 2016
4:30 PM- It’s time for a picture.
With Honourable Dr. @davidfrawleyved at #IndiaIdeas2016 in Goa pic.twitter.com/G8HxeuXOL5
— Tufail Ahmad (@tufailelif) November 5, 2016
4:45 PM- Shekhar Gupta says that in larger context, foreign policy under Modi Government has become much more India centric
DAY THREE: NOVEMBER 6
Rupa Subramanya, eminent economist and commentator, says:
Social media is actually the most modern potent form of dissent.
No more do I have to read ‘Letters to the Editor’ to express my opinions.
No more is there a monopoly on opinions in the public sphere.
Nistula Hebbar is a journalist with The Hindu. She is speaking about mainstream media.
Mainstream media is not aloof from the ground realities.
The divide between social media and mainstream media is a bit exaggerated.
Mainstream media does have its integrity and does carry important stories.
11:25 AM - Kanchan Gupta, commissioning editor and commentator, ABP News, is speaking currently.
We often narrow social media down to twitter. Platforms like Facebook, Weibo and other such entities are of importance too.
The reason mainstream media still believes it has credibility is due to the media revenue business model staying the same.
This muzzling of dissent by the mainstream journalists is not new. In 1992, I remember many mainstream journalists petitioned many papers to stop taking writing samples from me and Swapan Dasgupta.
Often the social media issues range from either demonising Narendra Modi to uncritically praising him. At other times it is obsessed with bashing the four famed TV news anchors. Social media needs to go beyond either praise or criticism of the prime minister and ranting against the news anchors.
Mainstream media latches on to those stories from social media which advances its ideological positions.
Hindol Sengupta, editor-at-large, Fortune India, says:
I want to dissent against the ‘truths’, the pejorative labels that the so-called left-liberals throw at others. I come from West Bengal and I have never come across a leftist who is a liberal.
My second dissent is against history as it is told to us. In 2016, we quote Samuel Johnson, who equated patriots to scoundrels. He came from a civilisation which only conquered others and wasn’t defeated itself. Why in 2016, then, do we, for whose freedom the likes of Khudiram Bose and Subhas Chandra Bose gave their lives, are quoting Johnson?
There is only person who can define what your politics is. No one else can put a label on the kind of politics you practise.
Writer, economist, environmentalist and urban theorist Sanjeev Sanyal:
One way to break the dynasty stranglehold in every field, be it politics, law, media or Bollywood, is to groom outsiders through mentorships in all the fields.
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