A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Dr Shashi Tharoor Click Here to download Paper as PDF In July 2020 Dr Shashi Tharoor, the Indian Member of Parliament, famous author and ex-United Nations Diplomat gave his thoughts on themes ranging from the “Chinese model” vis-à-vis Liberal democracies, to his defence of multiculturalism, and the need for re-ordering global institutions such as the United Nations. The three greatest cha

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Achārya Vidyabhaskar (N.B. Achārya is the Sanskrit term for ‘scholar’) Click Here to download Paper as PDF This fireside conversation with Acharya Vidyabhaskar explored the underlying notions of what it means to be ‘good’, from the paradigm of sustainable ethics. The aim was to examine which ethical principles human beings ought to live by, both for short-term and longer-term flourishing;

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Suhag Shukla, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Hindu American Foundation. Click Here to download Paper as PDF Shukla sought the views of a focus group consisting of four Republican-leaning and four Democrat-leaning Hindu Americans prior to this discussion. This conversation set out to understand Trumpism as a trend, a narrative and a movement that the speaker suggested had arisen

A Fireside conversation at Vichaar Manthan’s Sustainable Narratives Conference 2020 With Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Click Here to download Paper as PDF Abhijit Iyer Mitra opened by unequivocally stating that he prefers to take a pragmatic approach when discussing state governance systems and will not blindly follow ideology. In his terms, “ideology is outsourcing your brain to somebody else who has thought up the ideas fo