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New Delhi: Indian Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi will join economics professor Kaushik Basu on March 2 at 9:30 a.m. for a conversation about democracy, development and life in politics in India and the world. Several Cornell students will participate in the discussion during a live Q&A.
Hosted by the South Asia Program of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the virtual event is open to the Cornell community with NetID. Registration is required. The conversation will also be livestreamed on Facebook for viewers around the world.
A member of the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament, since 2004, Gandhi is the former president of the Indian National Congress, the political party founded by Mahatma Gandhi. He is the grandson of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.