The Nand and Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series

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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 2007-2008 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. The inaugural year was marked by India’s 60th anniversary of independence. At a time when India is rapidly growing in stature, CASI strongly believes that the Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series will further the dialogue on India at the University and beyond. The program 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.

For more information on The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series or to RSVP to a lecture, please contact casi@sas.upenn.edu or 215.746.3159.

Past Khemka Speakers

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