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at the foundation day programme at AN Sinha Institute in Patna on Thursday.
Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey
A seminar, "The interplay of nationalism, democracy and development: India 2015", was organised by AN Sinha
Institute of Social Studies on the institute's 51st foundation day on Thursday.
Amit Bhaduri, an economics professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, addressed the programme. D.N. Sahay, the former governor of Tripura and Chhattisgarh, presided over the seminar.
While addressing the audience, Amit said: "Industrialisation gifted us few disastrous by-products like convergence of ideologies of the political parties towards a model of corporate-led growth, ecological disaster and negligence towards the problem of sub-human poverty. The idea that market liberalisation would solve the problem is blatantly contradicted by experience."
He emphasised that there is a need to reorient the development process, which must deal simultaneously with extensive poverty and ecology.
D.N. Sahay said: "I have observed that the interplay of nationalism, democracy and development should reflect a harmonious inter-relationship in order to foster inclusive, egalitarian and shared social, economic and political order." The director of the institute, Sunil Ray, was present with other faculty members including Nil Ratan and Prasmita Mohanty.
