Ashish Ranjan
Rahul Gandhi To Hold Sessions At Cambridge University : Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi arrived in the United Kingdom on Tuesday to deliver a speech at the University of Cambridge and meet with Indian organisations in London as part of a week-long tour.
The Member of Parliament for the Opposition, who is a Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge JBS), will deliver a student-only lecture at the university on the topic of “Learning to Listen in the Twenty-First Century”
ब्रिटेन पहुंचे श्री @RahulGandhi, कैंब्रिज यूनिवर्सिटी में देंगे लेक्चर, 'लर्निंग टू लिसन इन द 21वीं सेंचुरी' पर करेंगे चर्चा।#RahulGandhi #cambridgeuniversity pic.twitter.com/qzrscVkght
— Indian Youth Congress (@IYC) March 1, 2023
Mr. Gandhi is expected to hold “closed-door sessions” with Professor Shruti Kapila, an Indian-origin Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies at the university’s Corpus Christi College and Co-Director of the Global Humanities Initiative, to discuss “Big Data and Democracy” and “India-China relations.”
Cambridge JBS tweeted on Tuesday, “Our @CambridgeMBA programme is pleased to greet India’s leading opposition leader and MP Rahul Gandhi of the Indian National Congress.”
It stated, “Today, he will speak as a visiting fellow of @CambridgeJBS on ‘Learning to Listen in the 21st Century’.”
The business school announced the upcoming visit on Twitter earlier this month: “He will lecture at @CambridgeMBA and conduct closed-door sessions on Big Data and Democracy and India-China relations, with @ShrutiKapila and supported by @BennettInst @CamGeopolitics @CamHistory.” Mr. Gandhi responded to this tweet by stating: “Looking forward to delivering a lecture at @CambridgeJBS and visiting my alma mater, Cambridge University.
He tweeted, “Glad to engage with some of the finest minds in various fields, including geopolitics, international relations, big data, and democracy.”
During his last visit to the United Kingdom in May of last year, the 52-year-old Congress leader spoke at the University of Cambridge at an event at Corpus Christi College entitled ‘India at 75’
During his current tour of the United Kingdom, he is scheduled to meet with members of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) UK chapter and deliver a speech at a “Indian Diaspora Conference” scheduled for this coming weekend in London.
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IOC UK stated that it looks forward to welcoming the party leader and providing him with an update on its activities, including the Bharat Jodo Yatra conducted in London last year in solidarity with the yatra led by Rahul Gandhi across India.
The yatra began on September 7, 2022, in Kanyakumari and ended in Jammu and Kashmir, covering a distance of approximately 4,000 kilometres over the span of four and a half months.
