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INDIA AWARENESS FOUNDATION, ATLANTA, GA (a not-for-profit organization) This is to announce that Dr. Subramanian Swamy, A well known scholar, visiting Professor at Harvard University, innovative thinker and reformist will address a public meeting on Saturday August 5, 2005 (details below)…This is a unique opportunity to understand ‘critical’ developments with regard to terrorism …a true eye-opener:
Speaker : Dr. Subramanian Swamy (brief profile attached) Topic : "Implications of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack” on security of India & USA Place : Global Mall, Jimmy Carter Blvd Date : August 5, 2006 (Saturday) Time : 2 pm to 4-30 p.m. Light snacks will be served.
All are invited…..free entrance
Why should you attend this event?
Terrorist attacks in USA, Spain, London, etc. and now in INDIA, have made innocent people of the world soft targets of the jehadi elements of Islam. The terrorist organizations have openly threatened to continue to unleash more such violent and senseless attacks across the globe.
This talk by Dr. Swamy will help understand the need for unity to challenge such gruesome acts of terrorism. Come and learn about the strategies and solutions needed for individual and collective action and its implications for safety and security of INDIA, USA and other countries under siege.
The Indian Americans with the highest per capita income are one of the most successful communities in America. We can, therefore, make a big difference in fighting terrorism if we put our resources and strength together. |
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Born on September 15, 1939, Dr. Swamy is today widely respected for his conviction and commitment to furthering democracy and market economy. In fact, the Reform program which Dr. Swamy had been promoting for nearly two decades has become today the mainstream thought and ideology in the country.
Scholarship Background: Dr. Swamy has impressive scholarly credentials, having earned a doctorate in economics from the prestigious Harvard University in 1964, after having worked with Nobel Laureate Simon Kuznets, and jointly authored papers with another Nobel Laureate, Paul.A Samuelson. At Harvard, Dr. Swamy taught Economics for a number of years (1963-69, 1971, 1985-86). From 1969-91, that is, for 22 years, Dr. Swamy was professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, till he resigned the post in 1991, while he was Cabinet Minister for Commerce, Law & Justice. Dr. Swamy is a linguist and is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, English and Chinese. Before going abroad for Ph.D. at Harvard, Dr.Swamy completed his Master in Statistics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. It is here, that he challenged the authenticity of research done by ISI director Prof. Mahalanobis. For his scholarship, he was invited to enroll for Ph.D research at Harvard.
Some of Dr. Swamy's research work carried out at Harvard and afterwards in India, have earned him a high standing in the field of Economics. Dr. Swamy published his first book in 1971 when he presented a clear alternative economic strategy, in his book Indian Economic Planning - An Alternative Approach (Vikas Publishers). The then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi took the unprecedented step of critically reviewing the book on the floor of the Lok Sabha during her reply to the Budget Debate.
His work Economic Growth in China and India 1952-1970: A Comparative Appraisal (University of Chicago Press, 1973) has received wide scholarly acclaim in the field. His jointly authored papers with Nobel Laureate Paul A Samuelson on the 'Theory of Index Numbers' published in the American Economic Review (1974) and the Royal Economic Society's Economic Journal (1984) are regarded as path-breaking research in economic theory. He is also the author of a well-known study on Indian's nuclear on China with his second book Comparative Appraisal of China and India (1870-1986), published by Vikas in 1989.
He has written extensively on foreign affairs dealing largely with India-China, India-Pakistan and Indo-Israel relation. In November 1978, Dr.Swamy was member of the Group of Eminent persons called to Geneva to prepare a report of the United Nations (UNCTAD) on Economic Co-operation between Developing countries (ECDC). As early as 1963, Dr.Swamy also served for a few months at the United Nations Headquarters in New York as Assistant Economic Affairs Officer.
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