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JAI HIND College is completing 60 years and to commemorate this occasion, the management has given the usual cultural programme a skip

JAI HIND College is completing 60 years and to commemorate this occasion, the management has given the usual cultural programme a skip. Instead they are conducting a seminar India on the Move: Different faces of Brand India that includes talks from experts on various aspects that have defined India in the last two decades.
Says Dr Kamal Jadhav, chairperson of the public relations cell, "We wanted to involve the whole college and not just one department. That is why the seminar is inter-disciplinary."

Established in 1948, a year after India won Independence, the college is conducting the seminar to celebrate the transition that India has made, the quantum leap it has taken towards progress and development. Post 1991 great developments have been achieved in the field of medicine, philosophy and political science which will be spoken about.

On the February 5 Chief Minister Ashok Chavan will inaugurate the seminar and the keynote address will be given by Vice Admiral P S Das on the strategy of defense. The seminar is the brainchild of principal Dr Kirti Narain and is all about taking pride in what the nation has achieved, says Dr Jadhav.

Those who would be speaking at the seminar include Atul Chaturvedi Chief Operating Officer, Idea Cellular Limited, Delhi on information explosion during the last two decades, Imtiaz Ahmad from the department of Social Anthropology, Sociology, Islamic Studies and Political Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University would be talking on current crisis of secularism and Suhas Gopinath, CEO and President, Globals Inc. is slated to talk about 'Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in Today's Global Financial Meltdown'. The finale is a talk on 'Changing Dimensions of Popular Cinema' by Jaideep Sahni and Javed Akhtar, followed by a panel discussion.

The seminar is by invitation and faculty from various Mumbai colleges has been invited.

The seminar will be held in the college premises. Registrations on February 6 and 7 begin at 9am.
Five sessions a day will beu00a0 held u2014 three before lunch. and two after.

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