Patiala management association organized an informative talk on “Our World @2025” by Ambassador Dr Deepak Vohra
Kanwar Inder Singh/ March 14,2023
Patiala Management Association had organized an informative talk on “Our World @2025” by former Indian Ambassador Dr Deepak Vohra, now special advisor to the prime minister, Lesotho, South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau and Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils, Kargil & Leh, for the members, residents of the royal city Patiala. It was well attended by the members, guests at Hotel Montage.
Vikas Kalra, President Patiala Management Association and his executive team welcomed the key note speaker Dr Deepak Vohra. Rahul Tayal , Deepak Kataria honoured the speaker with a plant.
Sanjay Gupta, Secretary PMA delivered the welcome address. Bhalinder Shah, finance secretary, PMA introduced the speaker and set the tone for the informative talk with his introductory remarks.
After this Dr Deepak Vohra a renowned strategic affairs expert and advisor to Prime Minister started his lecture on “Our World @2025” and said “now, the time has come when the world needs India more than India needs the world. He said that as the youngest nation in the world, India is unstoppable and its time on the world stage has come.
Dr Deepak Vohra, who has represented India in many nations across the world including the USA, France, Spain, Poland, Vietnam and a host of African countries, said India is well-poised to provide leadership to the world in meeting the primary challenges of health, climate instability and economic recovery through free and open seas that humankind is faced with today.
Dr Deepk Vohra while addressing the audience said that the pace of change in geopolitics and geoeconomics is the fastest it has been in the last one hundred years. The much-hyped ‘China dream’ has faded and far from being a global development partner, China is now a ‘universal threat’ as China sent virus to 200 countries and we sent our vaccine to them.
In his address Dr Deepak Vohra took the audience through the difficult years and decades since Independence when India had to beg for food grains in 1950’s and had to mortgage its gold reserves in 1990’s to the present when world leaders defer to India.
The former diplomat called on Indians to have faith in the collective capability of the country and not fall victims to cynicism as India have the presidencies of G20 and G77 this year. Moreover, India is natural choice for all those who seek better, more balanced world.
At the end of the session Dr Reetinder Kaur gave a vote of thanks.
Later the advisors Naresh Gupta, Parvesh Mangla and patron Rupinder Singh along with executive members of PMA honoured him and thanked him for his informative talk
(royalpatiala.in News)
