Former chief minister Vijay Rupani’s family and friends are inviting people to share their cherished memories of the late leader ahead of his birthday on August 2. Memories can be shared in written, audio, or video format via a WhatsApp number. A close family friend of the Rupanis said that they will collect the information till August 2 and then decide if they would publish it as a book format or in a video format or in any other manner. Rupani was killed in the June 12 plane crash in Ahmedabad.
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.
