| The 2025 Vijay Nambisan Lecture The recent functioning of global capitalism has led to extreme inequalities and the concentration of wealth and power, increasing the fragility and vulnerability of livelihoods, rapidly accelerating climate change, and severe ecological damage, resulting in social and political tensions, polarisation, and instability. India is a major example of such tendencies. In such a world, is it still possible to talk of an economy that delivers human rights? The talk considers what this means and explores possible pathways for a human rights economy within the current national and international constraints. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, previously taught at JNU for nearly 35 years. She has authored 20 books and over 200 scholarly articles and advised governments and global organisations like the ILO and UN. A recipient of multiple awards, she also writes regularly for popular media. She has received several prizes, including the 2015 Adisheshaiah Award for distinguished contributions to the social sciences in India; and the International Labour Organisation’s Decent Work Research Prize for 2011. Vijay Nambisan was a poet, journalist and writer and a passionate advocate of the Humanities. He believed in the purity of words, and language. When we use words well, we think, speak and write with clarity and thus communicate effectively. The lazy use of words can misinform, mislead and damage societal harmony and progress. The Vijay Nambisan Trust was formed in 2018 to further the cause of Humanities, by addressing issues that are of value to the individual spirit and the society. Like Manthan? Help Manthan Subscribe to our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/manthanindiaDonate to help us grow: https://www.manthanindia.com/support-manthan/ |
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