Oxford [UK], July 9: At a series of distinguished lectures and discourses in the UK, Dr. Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India spoke about the lessons from India’s history and civilization and the Indian Constitution at 75, offering a powerful reflection on the evolution of India’s constitutional democracy and its enduring significance in the protection of rights and freedoms while also speaking about the challenges as India looks to 2047 and 100 years of independence. The landmark event was organised by O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India’s leading private university and an Institution of Eminence. The lectures were held at University College and Somerville College, Oxford and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

At University College, Oxford, Dr. Shashi Tharoor spoke on the theme, “An Immemorial Civilization: Lessons from India, Lessons for India” and took the distinguished audience on a journey of more than 2500 years which outlines India’s history of religious tolerance and non-violence and continues to inform our modern approach to social justice. Dr Tharoor said. “There are lessons to be drawn from India’s historical and mythical figures and also from modern reformers and leaders like Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi. India’s secularism and egalitarianism has been shaped by its ancient wisdom. No nation can be called democratic and progressive, unless it combats the injustices faced by the marginalized and subjugated. Indian civilization, at its most luminous moments, has done exactly that and our quest for modernist inequality has always been forged through a struggle against orthodoxy, casteism, superstition and fundamentalist exclusion.”

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