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The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series

The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series

The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.

Past Khemka Speakers

Women and Work in India: Designing Policy When Power Matters
Rohini Pande
10/29/2020
Climate Change in India: Supersizing Risks for India’s Poor
Somini Sengupta
3/3/2020
Who Will Feed India? Political Economy of Agriculture Policies and its Implications
Dr. Ashok Gulati
3/19/2019
Will India's New Health Policy Improve Effectiveness and Equity?
Dr. K. Srinath Reddy
4/11/2017
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
Sanjoy Chakravorty & Devesh Kapur
10/20/2016
Every Child in School and Learning Well: The Challenges of Elementary Education in India
Rukmini Banerji
4/20/2016
India's Economic Development: The Weight of the Past and the Promise of the Future
Arvind Subramanian
10/15/2015
Can Indian Urbanization Alter Its Development Trajectory?
Aromar Revi
9/29/2015
India’s Growth Prospects and Policy Challenges
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
4/16/2015
The Origins of Indian Political Institutions: The Long View
Dr. Francis Fukuyama
10/9/2014
Two Mega Trends and Their Impact on the Indian Firm
Dr. Janmejaya Sinha
10/2/2014
Can India Deliver on Universal Health Coverage?
Dr. K. Srinath Reddy
10/10/2013
  
Can India Emerge as a Global Science Power?
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya & Priyamvada Natarajan
4/18/2013
  
Rethinking Gandhi in Contemporary India
Uday Singh Mehta & Karuna Mantena
4/19/2012
Indian Media's Dickensian Age
T. N. Ninan
11/10/2011
Conducting Elections in the World's Largest Plural Society
Dr. S. Y. Quraishi
2/24/2011
The Perils of Peace: Re-Imagining Risk and Reward in South Asia
Steve Coll
11/11/2010
The Politics of Social Justice in India
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
10/27/2010
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence
The Honorable Jaswant Singh
3/25/2010
China and India: An Investor's Perspective
Charles R. Kaye
1/21/2010
Regulating the Financial Sector: Indian Experience
Dr. Yaga Venugopal Reddy
11/12/2009
Arguing Democracy: Intellectuals and Politics in Modern India
Prof. Sunil Khilnani
4/30/2009
Empowerment of Dalits and Adivasis Role of Education in the Emerging Economy
Dr. Narendra Jadhav
12/3/2008
The Future of the U.S.-India Relationship
Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns
11/13/2008
The Future of India's Foreign Policy
His Excellency Ronen Sen
4/18/2008
Judicial Overreach or Oversight?
Justice Ruma Pal
3/4/2008
Reforming the Indian Banking System: Why It Is Important and What Can Be Done
Dr. Raghuram Rajan
11/8/2007
Democracy and Economic Transformation in India
Professor Partha Chatterjee
10/3/2007