India at 100: Decades of Decisions

On Friday, April 10, the South Asia Institute, the McCombs School of Business, the Clements Center for National Security, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Global Sustainability and Leadership Institute hosted an all-day conference, “India at 100: Decades of Decisions.”

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UT’s first-ever conference on India’s economic and political future. Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true. Joan Robinson captured India’s paradox decades ago—and it’s never been more relevant than right now.

1.4 billion people. The world’s largest democracy. An economy at an inflection point. Infrastructure ambitions that defy gravity. Governance at a scale humanity has never attempted.

India at 100 will be shaped by decisions made in the next decades.

Conference Topics Covered:

Humanity: Tracing India’s Macroeconomic Journey
Arvind Subramanian, Devesh Kapur, Dilawar Syed

The Sustainable Way: India’s Sustainability Challenges and Opportunities
Sonal Shah, Ashish Gupta, Deval Sanghvi, Meeta Kothare

The Growth Triangle: The Future of the Indo-US-TX Corridor
D.C. Manjunath, Tanvi Madan, Aaron Demerson

Accelerating India’s Development: Unlocking Human Capital at Scale
Karthik Muralidharan, Kishore Gawande

A Brave New World: India’s Position in the Global AI Ecosystem
Gaurav Tembey, Ashish Agarwal, Sanjay Banerjee

The Happiness Hypothesis: Unlocking Modern Happiness Through Ancient Wisdom
Raj Raghunathan

Labels of Perception: Filmmaking and Films in the Age of AI
Aranya Sahay

Whose Language Is It Anyway: Language, Stories and Identity of New India
Saurabh Dwivedi, Dalpat Rajpurohit