President Pranab Mukherjee will deliver The Second Ramnath Goenka Lecture in New Delhi on Thursday. A lecture series started last year by The Express Group and dedicated to its founder in the 25th year of his passing, Ramnath Goenka, was an Indian newspaper publisher. He launched The Indian Express and created the Indian Express Group with various English and regional language publications. In 2000, India Today magazine, named him amongst their list of “100 People Who Shaped India”. The Ramnath Goenka Lecture, in the spirit of the founder and the newspaper, aims to enrich and shape public discourse through the power of ideas.
