Speeches/Transcriptions/Presentations
Chief Guest and Keynote address on The rising stature of India as a global power in shaping the trajectory of the emerging world order at Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tercentenary University (SGT University) Gurugram on 17 Apr 2025

The world is at an inflection point. It is in search of new power balance, a new equilibrium. As a result, there is uncertainty and instability in the system. The key features of the current world order are: The decline of the US as t....

Opening Remarks by the Director during the Discussion on Indian Industrial Development Report 2024-25 on 21 April 2025 at the VIF

India’s goal of becoming Viksit Bharat by 2047 will hinge on its ability to achieve high economic growth and job creation over the next two decades. The share of manufacturing in India’s GDP has been growing in the past ten years but is still bel....

Welcome Address by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF, during the Vimarsh talk by Sh S Gurumurthy on "Kumbhmela: From a National and Geopolitical Perspective"

Dear Friends, It is a great pleasure to welcome you all to today’s Vimarsh talk by Sh S Gurumurthy on “Kumbhmela: From a National and Geopolitical Perspective” I thank Sh Gurumurthy for suggesting this topic fo....

Welcome Address by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF during the Exhibition and Panel discussion on “The Never Ending Persecution of Minorities in Bangladesh"

Dear Friends, The Vivekananda international Foundation is today organising a panel discussion on The Never Ending Persecution of Minorities in Bangladesh”. We are also hosting an exhibition on the subject put together by the Foundation for Adva....

Welcome address by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF during the discussion and release of 'Archaeologist of Independent India Major Personalities and Their Work'

Prof Dilip Chakrabarti Ji, Prof Kishore Kumar Basa, Chairman of the National Monuments Authority. Friends, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to today’s function being organised to release the book 'Archaeologists of Independent....

Understanding the Dhamma Principles of all Religions for Dhamma Century

Welcome esteemed panelists. Conflict avoidance has been the key theme of Hindu Buddhist Samvad conferences. In history, we have seen conflicts arising out of various reasons: clash of ideologies, clash of cultures, historical animositi....

Welcome Remarks by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF during the Vimarsh talk by Sh Rajiv Malhotra on the book Who is Raising Your Children: Breaking India with Youth Warriors,

Dear Friends, I would like to welcome and thank Sh Rajiv Malhotra and Dr Vijaya Viswanathan to the VIF for today’s Vimarsh discussion. Their latest book Who is Raising Your Children: Breaking India with Youth Warriors is t....

Opening Remarks by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director VIF at the conference on ‘Geopolitics of Energy and Climate Change in India-EU Cooperation’ organised by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) and Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) at Daniell’s Tavern,

COP 29 at Baku showed how climate change and climate action are shaping the geoeconomics and geopolitical agenda. The tensions between the developed and developing countries are increasing as the world grapples with task of mitigation and adaptation ....

Director’ Remarks: Vimarsh talk on ‘The Golden Road: How Ancient India transformed the world’ by Dr William Dalrymple

Friends, It is a great pleasure to welcome you to today’s discussion of Dr William Dalrymple’s latest book ‘The Golden Road: How Ancient India transformed the world’ published by Bloomsbury. Mr Dalrymple is ....

Welcome Address by the Director during the visit of H.E. Mr. Maris Sangiampongsa, the Foreign Minister of Kingdom of Thailand to discuss on the topics “Towards the Asian Century of Dhamma" and “Bilateral relations in the context of regional and global sit

It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Maris Sangiampongsa, the Foreign Minister of Kingdom of Thailand to the VIF. We are grateful that he has taken time to visit us taking time off his busy schedule. H.E. Mr. Maris Sangiampongs....

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