The
Festival
INDIA
of
Bringing 'the ideas of India'
to the New India
The festival is designed to promote and celebrate ideas that came from India, and which enrich the world.
In its inaugural event in 2017, The Festival of India was organised in collaboration with the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (now Pradhan Mantri Sangharalaya), the British High Commission and
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It was headlined by Smriti Irani, then Minister of Textiles.
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The Festival
Featured
Textile expert Rajeev Sethi about the magic of Indian textiles,
The noted mathematician C. K. Raju on the global contribution of Indian mathematics,
Author and historian Sanjeev Sanyal on the history of the Indian Ocean,
Historian Hindol Sengupta on the valour of Guru Gobind Singh,
Ustad Shujaat Khan on the beauty of the construction of ragas.
The second edition of the festival headlined by Piyush Goyal, then Minister for Railways and Coal.