ABP Network is set to host the second edition of its flagship event,   the "Ideas Of India summit", on February 24 and 25. Ideas Of India 2023 will witness several politicians, business personalities, authors and actors speaking on matters concerning India and the rest of the world, from climate catastrophe to facing one's inner demons. 


This year, the second edition of ABP Network's Ideas Of India summit, or 'Ideas Of India 2.0', co-presented by Dabur Vedic Tea, co-powered by Dr Ortho, Gallant Advance and Rajesh Masala, and driven by Maruti Suzuki, will witness notable speakers including Liz Truss, former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Yasukata Fukahori, Consul-General of Japan in Mumbai, Shashank Srivastava, Senior Executive Director, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, singers Lucky Ali, Sanjeevani Bhelande, and Shilpa Rao, actors Zeenat Aman, Asha Parekh, Manoj Bajpayee, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sara Ali Khan, and Kriti Sanon, authors Amitav Ghosh and Mahmood Mamadani, filmmakers Shekhar Kapur, Mira Nair and Nandita Das, Chef Vikas Khanna, and sportspersons Ashwini Nachappa, Jwala Gutta, Joshna Chinappa, Vinesh Phogat, among others.


Other imminent personalities who will be a part of the Ideas Of India summit include Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics & Information Technology, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Bhagwant Mann, Chief Minister of Punjab, Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, NR Narayanan Murthy, Founder, Infosys, Ashish Nandy, a sociologist and clinical psychologist, and Raghav Chadha, national spokesperson of the Aam Aadmi Party, among others. 


About Amitav Ghosh


Amitav Ghosh, an Indian author, will speak on climate catastrophe and one of his most recent books, 'The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable' on February 25, 2023, the second day of the Ideas Of India summit. His session will be called 'The Great Derangement: Facing a Climate Catastrophe'. 


Born in Calcutta in 1956, Ghosh grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied at the all-boys boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from St Stephen's College, Delhi University, and Delhi School of Economics, respectively. 


He completed his further studies in Oxford and Alexandria Universities. 


Amitav Ghosh’s most famous works


Ghosh is the author of renowned books including 'The Circle of Reason', 'The Shadow Lines', 'In An Antique Land', 'The Calcutta Chromosome', 'The Glass Palace', 'The Hungry Tide', and 'The Ibis Trilogy', which consists of the novels 'Sea of Poppies', 'River of Smoke' and 'Flood of Fire'. 


The 'Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable', the book he will speak on at the Ideas Of India summit, is a work of non-fiction, and was published in 2016. 


Awards and honours received by Amitav Ghosh


In 1990, Ghosh was awarded France's Prix Médicis for The Circle of Reason. The same year, he won two prestigious Indian prizes, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Ananda Puraskar, for The Shadow Lines.


In 1997, Ghosh received the Arthur C. Clarke award for The Calcutta Chromosome. In 2001, Ghosh was honoured with the International Book Award at the Frankfurt book fair for The Glass Palace.


He received the Crossword Book Prize, a major Indian award, for The Hungry Tide, in January 2005. 


His 2008 novel Sea of Poppies won him the Crossword Book Prize and the India Plaza Golden Quill Award. The novel was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2008. 


According to Ghosh's official website, the author's work has been translated into more than 30 languages. Ghosh has served on the juries of the Locarno and Venice film festivals. 


Ghosh's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic and The New York Times.


The University of Chicago Press published The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, in 2016. In 2018, the book won the inaugural Utah Award for the Environmental Humanities.


Ghosh has been honoured with two Lifetime Achievement awards. He has also received four honorary doctorates. 


Ghosh was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest honours, by the President of India in 2007. In 2018, he was conferred the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour, making him the country's first English-language writer to receive the award. 


In 2019, Ghosh was named one of the most important global thinkers of the preceding decade by the Foreign Policy magazine. 


Ghosh's most recent book, The Living Mountain, was published in 2022.


Ideas Of India 2023: ‘Naya India’ Theme


The theme for Ideas Of India 2023 is 'Naya India: Looking Inward, Reaching Out', and will focus on where India currently stands in the world, at a time of global geopolitical turmoil.


With just a year left for the general elections, several important events, including elections in nine states, need to be completed.


Currently the world's fifth largest economy, India aims to become a developed nation by 2047. In order to achieve that goal, the Indian Government is focusing on efforts towards the 'Make in India' initiative. 


Some of India's indigenously made commodities include vaccines against different diseases, such as the Serum Institute of India's cervical cancer vaccine CERVAVAC, and Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid-19 vaccine iNCOVACC. 


India has also made several advancements in science, including the development of rockets and satellites by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and made progress in the Gaganyaan Programme.