On November 30, Ambassador Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, was the first speaker at a memorial lecture series in the honour of Professor Rajni Kothari at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, themed “India’s Foreign Policy; a paradigm shift?”.
Rajni Kothari was an Indian political scientist, theorist, academic-activist, writer and most importantly founded the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi. He was also the founder of Lokayan (Dialogue of the People), a forum enabling interactions between activists and intellectuals. Neelam Deo discussed the transition in India’s foreign policy over time.