100 Foot Journey Club

Rethinking the Global Monetary System

An Institute of Global Affairs public lecture

Tuesday 10 May 2016

10-11.30am

Old Theatre, Old Building

Speaker: Dr  Raghuram Rajan

Chair: Professor Erik Berglof

This was the inaugural event for the ‘100 Foot Journey Club’ (#100FJC ), a collaboration between the High Commission of India and the LSE South Asia Centre.

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The Wonder that is Indian Elections, Challenges & the Way Ahead

A Hundred Foot Journey Club (#100FJC) event, in partnership with the National Indian Students and Alumni Union UK and Pravasi Bharat.

Friday 13th May 2016

6:00pm - 8:00pm

High Commission of India, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA

Speakers: Dr S Y Quraishi and Dr Mukulika Banerjee

A conversation with the Former Chief Election Commissioner of India, Dr S Q Quraishi, led by Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Director of the LSE South Asia Centre and author of Why India Votes.

The Hundred Foot Journey Club (#100FJC) is a collaboration of the High Commission of India and the LSE South Asia Centre.

The National Indian Students and Alumni Union UK is the pan-UK body representing youth of Indian origin in the UK.

It is the umbrella body of India and India-related societies at universities across the UK.Pravasi Bharat was formed to increase the participation of Indian diaspora in the Indian elections.  

The Indian Village: Romantic Images versus Historical Realities Lecture  

A South Asia Centre Public Lecture as part of the '100 Foot Journey Club' (#100FJC)

Monday 6th June 

6:30pm - 8:00pm 

Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, London, W1K 1HF

Speaker: Sumit Guha 

Chair: Ed Simpson

This lecture will review the realities of Indian village life and its social and political setting  up to the late twentieth century. 
The event is free to attend and open to all.

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India's Greatest CEOs by Suhel Seth

Thursday 16th June 2016

6:30-8:00pm

Old Theatre, Old Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Speakers: Suhel Seth, Rt Hon. Jo Johnson and H.E. Navtej Sarna

You are invited to the launch of Suhel Seth's new book India's Greatest CEOs.

The book will be launched by The Rt Hon. Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Universities and Science, followed by a panel discussion including H.E. Navtej Sarna, Hon'ble High Commissioner of India to the UK and the author. 

The event is free and open to all, but please RSVP  to Tim Aldcroft if you wish to attend.

Suhel was recently interviewed by Saanya Gulati, for the South Asia @ LSE blog. You can read the article here.

This is a '100 Foot Journey Club’ (#100FJC) event, jointly organised by the LSE South Asia Centre and the High Commission of India, London.

Cities of the Empire

This is a South Asia Centre public lecture

Wednesday 23rd November 2016

5:00-6:30pm

Wolfson Theatre, NAB

Speaker: The Hon Dr Tristram Hunt, MP

The Hon Dr Tristram Hunt, MP, will speak on the cities of Calcutta, Bombay and New Delhi, and their role in making the Empire over a century, drawing direct and close links between the colonial cities and their relationship with cities like Liverpool on the one hand, and Britain as a whole on the other. 

The Hon Dr Tristram Hunt, MP, is an intellectual and cultural historian specialising in urban pasts. He is Senior Lecturer in modern British history at Queen Mary University of London, and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central. He is the author of Ten Cities that made an Empire  (2014).

This event is free and open to all. It is part of the Colony as Empire: Histories from Whitehall series. 

Please email if you have any queries.