Theme: Other Points of View

An opportunity for 50-60 people with different points of view and yet a sensitivity to poverty to discuss issues pertaining to- but not limited to the Millenium Development Goals.

Himalayan Village
Sona Pani, Village Satoli
Ramgarh Block
Nainital District, Uttarakhand
India

Ashok Desai

Ashok Desai is Consultant Editor of The Telegraph, and a columnist in Businessworld. He served as Chief Consultant in the Finance Ministry from 1991 to 1993, and helped design the early economic reforms. Earlier, he worked as an economist in National Council of Applied Economic Research in Delhi.

T R Raghunandan

TR Raghunandan is the coordinator of – IpaidABribe.com – that tries to map out corruption in the country using user-generated content. He has twenty-six years experience as a high ranking civil servant in Indian Administrative Services – holding corporate management and policy making positions in the State Government of Karnataka and Government of India and was the Joint Secretary – Ministry of Panchayat Raj, Government of India and Secretary – Rural Development and Panchayati Raj with the Government of Karnataka.

K Satyanarayan

Satya is the co-founder of New Horizon Media, a publishing house set up in 2004 in Chennai, India, with the mission of “enlightening minds and enriching lives” – by publishing multi-lingual books on multiple formats. He is an engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and has a masters in Physics from Cornell University. K. He was also part of the team of co-founders of Cricinfo.com, which was sold to the UK-based Wisden Group in 2003.

Shubhashish Gangopadhyay

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay is the director of India Development Foundation (IDF) – a research organization that promotes market driven approaches to public policy. After a PhD in Economics from Cornell University, in 1983, Shubhashis joined the Indian Statistical Institute and was part of the faculty at the institute till 2002. He was also briefly the advisor to the finance minister of the Government of India.

D Raghunandan

D Raghunandan is the Secretary of the Delhi Science Forum (DSF). The DSF is a “public interest organisation” and was formed to 1978 to popularise science and science & technology policies and operate on the interface of science and society.

DIpa Sinha

Dipa is a research scholar at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). She has a Masters in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her recent research interest is that of the “Right to Food” in India.