“Lingayats: Their Faith and Vote in Karnataka” | 3rd Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture
CONFERENCE HALL, TRAINING CENTRE, NLSIU
(Open to the NLS Community only)
Friday, May 19, 2023, 4:00 pm
The Institute of Public Policy is organising the 3rd Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar Annual Memorial Lecture on May 19, 2023 at 4 pm. The lecture will be delivered by our guest speaker Dr. A Narayana from Azim Premji University on the topic ‘Lingayats: Their Faith and Vote in Karnataka.’
About the Lecture Series
This memorial lecture was initiated by the Institute of Public Policy with the support of Prof. Adbul Aziz, Chair on Religious Minorities, NLSIU in memory of his father Sri. Hunasikote Abdul Ghaffar. Mr. Ghaffar passed away in 1982 in Hunasikote at the age of 74.
The first lecture in this series was delivered by Prof. Karkala Seetharam on April 3, 2019 on the topic “Human Rights as Public Policy.” The second lecture was delivered by Shri. Cyril Diengdoh, IAS, on April 4, 2022 on the topic “Challenges of NREGA in Sixth Schedule Areas.”
About the Speaker:
Dr. Narayana is currently with Azim Premji University where he teaches Political Philosophy and Indian Politics, Law and Governance and Governance Challenges in India.
He has over two decades of experience in the media, academics and consultancy. With a master’s in economics, he started his career as a journalist with the Bangalore-based English daily, Deccan Herald, and switched to academics after obtaining his doctorate from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, United Kingdom, with the Ford International Fellowship. Worked as Associate Professor at the School of Media Studies, Manipal University, Manipal and as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore. He was the Karnataka State Coordinator for the World Bank’s Land Governance Assessment Framework and a consultant for the Karnataka Government’s High-Power Committee on Restructuring the Governance of Bangalore City. He was also a member of the Election Commission of India’s technical committee on electoral literacy. He writes regularly in Kannada and English newspapers.