Programme
Date Topic Speakers/Moderator May 15, 20202-4 pm Inaugural TM Thomas Issac: Minister of Finance, Kerala StateAruna Roy: Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan Prabhat Patnaik: Professor Emeritus, JNUVandana Shiva: Navdanya Moderator: Leo Saldanha May 19, 202011-1...
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State power and surveillance in times of lockdown by Shalmali Guttal
About the speaker:Shalmali Guttal is the Executive Director of Focus on Global South. She is with Focus from 1997 and has worked in India, the United States, and mainland Southeast Asia. Since 1991, she...
What needs to be done to strengthen the public health system in India? by Dr. T. Sundararaman
About the speaker:Dr.T Sundararaman is a public health expert, he is former executive director of the National Health Systems Resource Centre, and former dean of School of Health System Studies at the Tata Institute...
Breaking Nature’s boundaries: Novel Coronavirus and Climate Crisis by Soumya Dutta
About the speaker:Soumya Dutta is Co convenor of South Asian Peoples Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC) and member of advisory board of the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network. He is a people science...
The working class amidst lockdown by Kiruba Munusamy
About the speaker:Kiruba Munusamy is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is a social, political and judicial activist striving for social justice by eliminating all forms of discriminations, oppressions and...
Decentralised governance and responses to survive COVID-19 securing civil and political rights by Leo Saldanha
About the speaker:Leo F. Saldanha is full-time Coordinator and also Trustee of ESG. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights...
Capitalism in times of Corona by Gautam Mody
About the speaker:Gautam Mody is the General Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) of India. He was with Kamani Employees union in Mumbai. NTUI was formed when several independent trade unions in the...

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Controversies of 1200 MW Teesta III HEP in Sikkim
India’s power scenario of late, has been marked by renewed thrust of mega hydroelectric projects across India’s North East, including classifying large hydros as renewable source of energy, to mobilize resources for large hydropower...

RCEP: The Meaning of India’s Exit
A conversation between Benny Kuruvilla, Focus on Global South, Prof. Biswajit Dhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ranja Sengupta, Third World Network on Why did India exit RCEP