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Yarlagadda invited to address India Conference at Harvard University
Well-known writer and member of Central Hindi Committee Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad has been invited to address the prestigious India Conference being organised by graduate students of Harvard University every year.
Visakhapatnam: Well-known writer and member of Central Hindi Committee Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad has been invited to address the prestigious India Conference being organised by graduate students of Harvard University every year.
This year, the conference will be held on February 10 in Boston. Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad will be addressing the 15th edition of the India Conference of the Harvard University on ‘Literature in contemporary India: Languages, Identity and perception’.
The India Conference being organised by graduate students of Harvard is one of the largest conferences focusing on India in the US with close to 1,000 attendants. It is jointly organised by students of Harvard Business School, Kennedy School, Design School and the School of Education. The theme of this year’s conference is ‘Disruptive Innovation in India’.
The conference has a strong legacy of bringing together government officials, writers, business leaders, academics, lawyers, artists, athletes, philanthropists and many other leaders to meaningfully discuss key issues, solutions and opportunities in the context of India's path to global leadership.
In the past, India Conference has been fortunate to host Amartya Sen, Omar Abdullah, Chanda Kochhar, Harish Salve, SY Quraishi, Azim Premji, Shashi Tharoor, P Chidambaram, Navin Jindal, R Madhavan and Pavan Kalyan among other influential speakers.
Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is a well-known writer having written more than 60 books in Telugu and Hindi and is a former Rajya Sabha member. He won the Central Sahitya Academy Award twice for translation and creative writing.
He was the chairman of Andhra Pradesh Hindi Academy for six years. He also served as the chairman of the High Power Committee on Official Language and University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He was honoured with Padma Shri in 2003 and Padmabhushan in 2016 for his widely acknowledged contribution towards enrichment of literary traditions.
