A Century of Nationalism - The Tagore, Gandhi and Ambedkar of 1923 & India Now The Annual Vijay Nambisan Lecture 2023
Details
Oct 31 2023 to Oct 31 2023 6:30 p.m.
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Where
Bangalore International Centre
7 4th Main Rd, Stage 2, Domlur 560071
Event Description
The lecture will focus on the year 1923 and recount Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to Gujarat in October/November 2023, Mahatma Gandhi’s days in prison and Dr. Ambedkar being awarded the D.SC. and being admitted to Bar in London.
The lecture will present the thoughts of the three on the question of Nationalism, during India’s independence movement. It will compare those three visions with contemporary views on nationalism to assess how far we have moved as a society and as a nation from those visions.
The Vijay Nambisan Trust:
The Vijay Nambisan Trust was formed to perpetuate the cause of Humanities in its many spheres. The Vijay Memorial Lecture to be held every year is the first event to be sponsored by the Trust in partnership with the Bangalore International Centre.
About Vijay Nambisan:
One of the best poet-writers of his generation, Vijay Nambisan is known as much for his poetry and prose, as he is for his reclusiveness. He dropped out of IIT Madras in his fourth year of engineering to pursue his love for the written word. He won the first All India British Council Poetry Prize in 1988, worked for a number of years in the literary section of The Hindu and published collections of poetry and prose in his inimitable style. He was married to surgeon and novelist, Kavery Nambisan.
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