Book Discussion | A New Idea of India — Individual Rights in A Civilisational State

About the book:

For the better part of seven decades after Independence, the Nehruvian idea of India held sway in India’s polity, even if it was not always in consonance with the views of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. Three key features constituted the crux of the Nehruvian way: socialism, which in practice devolved to corruption and stagnation; secularism, which boxed citizens into group membership and diluted individual identity; and non-alignment, which effectively placed India in the Communist camp.

In the early nineties, India started a gradual withdrawal from this path. But it was only in 2019, with Narendra Modi’s second successive win in the general elections, that this philosophy is finally being replaced by a worldview that acknowledges India as an ancient civilisation, even if a young republic, and that sees citizens as equal for developmental and other purposes. A New Idea of India constructs and expounds on a new framework beyond the rough and tumble of partisan politics.

Speakers:

Harsh Madhusudan
Chief Investment Officer, Ashika Group of Companies; co-author — ‘A New Idea of India’

Rajeev Mantri
Managing Director, Navam Capital; co-author — ‘A New Idea of India’

Shamika Ravi
Director of Research, Brookings India; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington DC; Former Member, PM’s Economic Advisory Council, India

Moderator:

Gautam Chikermane
Vice President, Observer Research Foundation

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