PBD-ORATION

With a view to encourage and promote well-informed and high-quality debates and public discourses on matters of interest and concern to the vast overseas Indian community, estimated at 25 million, spread over 110 countries, a prestigious annual lecture-series is being launched in the backdrop of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Conventions 2010. The overarching theme of the lecture series would be ‘India and its Diaspora: Everlasting Bonds of Togetherness

1. The first in this lecture series will be delivered by Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, an eminent Person of Indian Origin (PIO), at 1630-1730 hrs Friday, the 08th January 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

2. The PBD-Oration would be open to delegates registered for PBD Convention, 2010