Talk & Discussion on India-Bangladesh fallout: The Urgent Need for Recalibration and Mutual Respect With Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti
Venue
ABE Auditorium, GIM Campus, Sanquelim and live streaming on GIM YouTube
Event Date and Time
Thursday, 5th September 2024, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm IST
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Seismic changes in Bangladesh, wrought over July and August 2024, have led to the flight of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to India and highlighted the fraught relationship between India and Bangladesh. India’s staunchest ally in the subcontinent is now in danger of slipping from its moorings, and a large part of that responsibility lies with India. Over the past decade or so, and in particular since 2022, India’s single-minded focus has remained the building of strong government-to-government ties with Bangladesh to shore up India’s geo-strategic security in north-eastern India with a view to curb China, increase trade and investment connectivity, and reduce risks of migration along the vast 4,096 km-long border, among other things. In the process, it propped up a despotic, corrupt and deeply unpopular regime in Bangladesh. With that, coming fully undone on August 5, India is now in the eye of the storm and, for many Bangladeshis, a neighbourhood villain. As Bangladesh now struggles to reinvent and rebuild itself, India will need to comprehensively reinvent and recalibrate its foreign policy attitude and practice towards Bangladesh, or risk losing much.
Discussant
Sudeep Chakravarti
the Director of the Center for South Asian Studies (C-SAS) at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
- morris@gim.ac.in; chaircppg@gim.ac.in
- +91 9824232121; +91 832 2366733
Sudeep Chakravarti is Director of the Center for South Asian Studies (C- SAS) at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), where he also teaches conflict studies, South Asian literature, ethics, and journalism. He is the author of ten books that encompass history, ethnography, conflict, and conflict resolution, geopolitics, geo-economics, and the intersection of democracy and development. These include The Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s Far East (Simon and Schuster, 2022); Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History (Aleph Book Company, 2020); The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community (Aleph, 2017); Highway 39 (Fourth Estate, 2012); and Red Sun (Penguin, 2009). Fallen City, his crime-and-political narrative set in 1970s and 1980s Delhi, was published in August 2024 (Aleph). Sudeep has written nearly a thousand articles, columns and essays within the arc of pre-Partition to present-day South Asia for major global and South Asian publications, and has for three decades advocated conflict
resolution and enhanced trade and connectivity in South Asia in general and Eastern South Asia in particular. He began his career at The Asian Wall Street Journal and subsequently held leadership positions at Sunday, India Today, the India Today Group, and HT Media in a media career spanning thirty-five years. A fuller CV can be accessed here.
Discussant
Sebastian Morris
Senior Professor, General Management & Public Policy & Chair, Centre for Public Policy & Governance
- morris@gim.ac.in; chaircppg@gim.ac.in
- +91 9824232121; +91 832 2366733
Prof. Sebastian Morris is Senior Professor and Chair of the Centre for Public Policy and Governance at the Goa Institute of Management. He retired from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after over 25 years of teaching, research and consultation. His principal interests are the Indian economy, infrastructure development and regulation, the public sector and governance, international trade and investments, macroeconomics, and small industry. His recent books have been: Macroeconomic Policy in India since the Global Financial Crisis – Trends, Policies and Challenges in Economic Revival Post COVID (Springer Nature, 2022); (ed.) The Difficulty of Being Gajendra Haldea – Reflections on His Life and Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2023) and (ed.) The India Infrastructure Report 2023 – Urban Planning and Development (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Discussant
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar
Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management
- kingshuk@gim.ac.in
- +91 832 2366942
Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar is Associate Professor in the area of General Management and Public Policy Area at the Goa Institute of Management. He had earlier served as labour administrator for more than two decades with the Govt. of West Bengal. His interests include labour & industrial economics, development economics, business economics, labour administration and labour laws, plantation economics and labour, labour laws and labour administration, employment relations and informal labour. In the past, he has worked as a faculty at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida specializing in labour laws and labour administration. He has also worked as Assistant Professor in the National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, in connection with works related to BPL Census 2011.
Schedule
4.15 pm to 4.30 pm: Registration and Refreshments
4.30 pm to 4.35 pm: Welcome (Ms. Bernice de Souza)
4.35 pm to 4.45 pm: Remarks by Prof. Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM
4.45 pm to 5.00 pm: Setting the Context (Prof. Sebastian Morris, Chair, CPPG-GIM)
5.00 pm to 5.45 pm: Keynote address by Prof. Sudeep Chakravarti, Director, C-SAS, ULAB
5.45 pm to 6.20 pm: Open session, discussion and Q&A (Moderated by Prof. Kingshuk Sarkar, Member, CPPG)
6.20 pm to 6.30 pm: Vote of Thanks (Ms. Christal Ferrao) and wrapping up
Contact Persons
Dr. Kingshuk Sarkar, Associate Professor, Email: kingshuk@gim.ac.in Contact no: +91 9007704524; +91 8322366942
Ms. Bernice de Souza, Senior Research Associate, CPPG, GIM Email: bernice@gim.ac.in Mb: +91 9923693329
Ms. Vividha Amonkar, Executive –lll Administration, CPPG, GIM Email: vividha@gim.ac.in Mb: +91 94052 01816