DR C.D. DESHMUKH MEMORIAL LECTURE India's Golden Jubilations

India's Golden Jubilations
Speaker: Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal

Chair: Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President, IIC

Is there something, anything or nothing to celebrate about today's India? Do the anniversaries we observe with clockwork regularity"”silver, golden, diamond"”serve any purpose, practical or ideational? Or are jubilees merely exercises in self-fulfilment and self-deception, or what in Hindustani would be called "man-bahlaav"?