Talk
Tagore and the Natural World
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata presents Professor Achin Chakraborty, as part of the virtual Nabanna Earth Weekend 2021
Professor Achin Chakraborty will speak on Tagore’s ideas of sustainable development.
Moderator: Bipasha Raha
Professor Achin Chakraborty is a Professor of Economics and currently the Director of the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). He has research interests in welfare economics, development economics, health economics, and political economy of India. He received Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Riverside, USA. He was a visiting professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and was a CICOPS Fellow at the University of Pavia, Italy. He has published widely in national and international journals. He co-edited two recently published books – The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (OUP, 2017) and Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State (Springer, 2019). He has jointly authored the book Limits of Bargaining: Capital, Labour, and the State in Contemporary India (CUP, 2019). His op-ed pieces on socio-economic issues appear in leading dailies.
Nabanna Earth Weekend (NEW) is a free, open-access, nonprofit bilingual festival of literature, arts and ideas, with sessions in both English and Bengali, held every year in Santiniketan. In 2019 the first edition of this weekend festival coincided with the inauguration of the annual Nabanna mela, held around the time of Holi, the community festival celebrating renewal, colour and camaraderie.
NEW expands the scope of Nabanna to include a weekend festival of arts and ideas featuring writers and artists, cultural and creative thinkers. All creative fields are included, for a rich cross pollination of ideas, from traditional crafts, arts and literature, to contemporary design, cuisine and food cultures, sustainability and environmental concerns.
This year, for the first time, NEW is taking place in a virtual space.
PROGRAMME
Details
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata
Park Mansions, Gate 4
57A, Park Street
700 016 Kolkata
Language: English
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