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  Home > Student Seminars > Future Seminars > The India Story > Programme > Day Eighteen


 
"The India Story" Seminar
 
Programme - MOVING TO THE 21ST CENTURY

DAY EIGHTEEN:

SESSION I – The men who made Modern India

1. M.K.Gandhi – Father of the Nation

  • South Africa, Tolstoy Farm and the origins of his non violence creed
  • Return to India and unifying the Nationalist movement
  • Impact of Non-Violence on Imperialism, India and the World.
  • His view of Democracy.
  • The humanitarian philosophy of “All men are Equal”
 

2. Jawaharlal Nehru- Statesman, Freedom fighter, Historian

  • Harrow & Cambridge. An English Mind in an Indian body.
  • Starting the Nationalist Movement.
  • 17 years of Imprisonment
    • Readings
    • Books written
    • Planning
  • The “Tryst with Destiny” speech
  • The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
  • Secularism as the base for Modern India
  • Creating India’s Science & Technology and Industrial bases.
  • His Failures – China, excessive controls
  • His successes – India’s Technological impact on a Globalised World, Unity in Diversity.
 

 

3. J.N.Tata – Industrialist, Philanthropist

  • Zoroastrianism in India – Hormuz to Surat and merging with the Indian Diaspora.
  • The Story of Tata Steel – one of the world’s top 2 steel plants in 2003
  • The Tata Group of Industries and their total commitment to Business Ethics
  • The Indian Institute of Science (modeled after the Johns Hopkins Univ. of USA)
  • The economic battle against Imperialism
    • Beginning with Steel & Power
    • Now leading with IT
  • The social commitment
    • Tata Institute of Social Sciences
    • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    • Tata Memorial Hospital
    • Rural, Medical, Educational support.

 

4. Dr.Homi J.Bhaba – Scientist

  • The Cambridge and U.K. years.
    • Youngest Fellow of the Royal Society
    • The Adams Prize.
  • Setting up of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research & The Atomic Energy Commission.
  • Nehru – Bhaba partnership
  • The story of Apsara, Asia’s first Atomic Reactor
  • Conceptualisation of India’s Rocket and Satellite launching programmes
  • Development of India’s Radioastronomy programme
  • Bhaba as a Humanist, Musician & Artist
 

SESSION II – India in the 21st Century

 

Panel discussions and interaction with young India’s representatives.

  • Social Worker
  • IT Specialist
  • Doctor
  • Teacher
  • Scientist
  • Corporate Executive

Subject for discussion will be “Our Dreams & Challenges” for the first half of the 21st Century”.

SESSION III – Human Consciousness : East & West


  • Modern Science for Consciousness
  • Western Philosophy
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Indian Mysticism
  • From Homosapiens to Homospiritualis.
    The complete evolution of Man.

Days: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21