Keeping the Bandung Principles of 1955 in mind, as India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Summit later this year, the panelists would address, from the vantage point of women, issues that have led to recent wars and how to build conditions of peace in contemporary times.

Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture 2026

Jointly organised by
Council for Social Development and India International Centre

“A New Consciousness for a Fractured Time Rethinking India’s Development Path”

By

Mihir Shah
Distinguished Professor and Chair, Rural Management Program, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University

At 6.30 PM, 15 July, 2026
Venue: C.D Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC (Main), New Delhi

Abstract

It is one of the abiding tragedies of India’s development experience that nearly 80 years after
Independence, we still struggle to provide our people the most important needs of life

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