A Conversation About India
With Ramesh Thakur and Haroon Siddiqui
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 4-6 pm, Toronto time
Location: Trinity College Combination Room, 6 Hoskin Ave, Toronto ON M5S 1H8
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About the Event
What is the state of the world's largest democracy in the time of Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party rule? What can we expect after the current Indian general elections? Eminent political scientist and former Assistant Secretary General of the UN Ramesh Thakur and longtime Toronto Star editorial editor Haroon Siddiqui discuss these questions in the Trinity College Combination Room on August 17, 4-6 pm.
Ramesh Thakur
About the Speakers
Ramesh Thakur Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Educated in India and Canada, he has held full-time academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues. Dr. Thakur was a Commissioner and one of the key authors of The Responsibility to Protect and Principal Writer of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s second reform report; a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation; and Foundation Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario.
His books include Global Governance and the UN (Indiana University Press); The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford University Press); The United Nations, Peace and Security (Cambridge University Press); and The Nuclear Ban Treaty (Routledge). He is a regular media commentator.
Haroon Siddiqui
Haroon Siddiqui is Editorial Page Editor Emeritus and former columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest newspaper. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. He has reported or supervised coverage of Canada for 50 years and reported from 50 countries.
He has been honoured with the Order of Canada, and also the Order of Ontario, for his journalism, especially advancing diversity and redefining the meaning of ‘Canadian.’ Last year he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
His latest book My Name is Not Harry: A Memoir is a love letter to India and Canada, his native and adopted lands.