What does the 21st Century hold for India’s growing economy? How will the world’s largest democracy handle supporting over a billion people in the future?

These and other questions will be addressed when the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts India Sixty: The Critical Questions, a symposium running November 2-3, 2007, at the Illini Union. To honor the 60th anniversary of India’s independence, Illinois faculty, as well as speakers from around the United States and Asia, will conduct six panel discussions on India’s past, present, and future. Topics will range from the subcontinent’s emergence as a major world economy and a technological and nuclear power to women’s rights and cultural heritage conservation.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is among the latest connections between Illinois and India, which have included involvement in the establishment of the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur and agricultural universities at Pantnagar and Jabalpur. A goal of the symposium is to expand these productive connections between the university and India.
For more information, please visit the conference Web site at http://www.psames.uiuc.edu/India60/ .