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Special Reunion
The Institute of Leadership and Governance (ILG) at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda is hosting an 'offline interactive public lecture', calling it a 'reunion' on Monday, featuring Yeshi Dawa, Senior Researcher at 108 Peace Institute and former bureau chief of Radio Free Asia, who will discuss 'The Dalai Lama at 90: Legacies and the Road Ahead'. 'Established in January 2016 as an autonomous institute in MSU, the ILG has for long organised online lectures, which were also necessitated due to Covid and continued post pandemic too. This being an offline one is the reason we are asking everyone to join for this lecture… also as a 'reunion',' ILG former director and current advisor Jigar Inamdar said.
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