FLASHBACK 2005: PERCEPTION VERSUS REALITY

February 25, 2005, Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi
After three successful Conclaves, India Today hosted ‘India Tomorrow 2005: Perception vs. Reality’ on the 25th and 26th February of 2005. The aim of the Conclave was to liberate the India trapped between perception and reality, something India Today as a news magazine has been doing for decades. The distinguished delegates and guests were engaged in talks updating the perceptions about India, adding new ones and debunking a few, thereby making reality more comprehensible. Conclave 2005 became a powerhouse of ideas, which could change the stereotype images India is clouded with and redeem reality.


Speakers 2005
Dr. MANMOHAN SINGH
Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
H. E. HAMID KARZAI
President of Afghanistan
SHAUKAT AZIZ
Hon’ble Prime Minister of Pakistan
HILARY RODHAM CLINTON
US Senator from New York,
V.S. NAIPAUL
Nobel Laureate, Author
MANI SHANKAR AIYAR
Minister for Petroleum & Panchayati Raj
YASHWANT SINHA
MP & former Union Minister
ARUN SHOURIE
Author, former Union Minister
LAKSHMI NIWAS MITTAL
Chairman & CEO, Mittal Steel Company
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA
Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
TOM STEWART
Editor, Harvard Business Review
JOSEPH SIGELMAN
Co-Chief Executive Officer,
JAGDISH BHAGWATI
Professor, Columbia University
AMITABH BACHCHAN
Actor, living legend
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR
Spiritual Guru,
KIRAN KARNIK
President, NASSCOM
JAVED AKHTAR
Poet, Writer, Activist
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
Author, Indophile
PASCAL LAMY
President, Association Notre Europe and Associate Professor, Institut d' Etudes Politiques, Paris
   
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