The Panel Discussion will focus on recent discourses that have been developed in West Bengal on the problematic of India China relations, essentially highlighting how a whole set of new initiatives are being discussed to develop linkages between West Bengal and south-west china which would initially benefit the eastern subregion of India but ultimately both India and China would benefit as a whole from the exercise.

Speaker: Suranjan Das, Vice-Chancellor, University of Calcutta, India & Member of Indian Council of Historical Research, Government of India.

Discussant: Tansen Sen, Associate Professor, CUNY