Post COVID World – Opportunities & Challenges for India
Prabodhan Manch Parle
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As we entered the second month of lockdown X.0, we realised that the new normal was to have an e-gathering over a Webinar. Our team put together the entire infrastructure and we were able to host our first Webinar .. with more than 1050 registrations and many more viewers.
Speaker's Introduction
A career diplomat and an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1981 batch – he has had long stints both overseas and at the Ministry of External Affairs. He has many noteworthy achievements and assignments to his credit – he was the Indian Ambassador to China (during the Doklam crisis), he is the only officer to have been an Ambassador to both Taiwan and China & last but not the least – he was the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India. He is a proficient linguist too - with fluency in English, Hindi, Marathi but more notably in Sanskrit & Mandarin.
The Topic – “Post COVID World – Opportunities & Challenges for India
COVID-19 has brought many a global events to the fore …… The fact that so called advanced nations – the US & the Western World – seem to be suffering the heaviest damage; The demand shock that has sent oil prices crashing – exposing the entire Middle East to an unprecedented geopolitical uncertainty and the “Elephant in the room” – China’s role in starting the pandemic and subsequent Global unease in dealing with that country. In the midst of all this – we do believe that there is a silver lining to the COVID-19 clouds – in terms of Opportunities – as far as India is concerned. So -is there light at the end of the tunnel – or are one might say = the Challenges are daunting enough like the engine of the approaching train. As we were discussing as to whether India could claim it’s rightful position in the POST COVID world, we were lucky enough to find the most suited person to talk to us about it.
These are difficult topics on which we have asked our speaker to throw light on in a very short time.
here's your link to the YouTube upload:https://youtu.be/MFoyMpV_faI