Navy Foundation organises 6th Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji Memorial Lecture
Kolkata, Apr 1 (IBNS): The sixth Admiral Adhar Kumar Chatterji Memorial Lecture was organised by Navy Foundation, Kolkata Chapter at the Bhasha Bhavan, National Library, Kolkata with active support of INS Netaji Subhas on Saturday.
The biennial lecture was held to commemorate the memory of the late Admiral AK Chatterji, who was the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) in the rank of Admiral in 1967. He retired on Feb 28, 1970 and passed away on Aug 6, 2001.
The inaugural Admiral AK Chatterji Memorial Lecture was held in 2007 wherein the keynote address was delivered by Pranab Mukherjee, the then minister of External Affairs, Govt. of India.
Vice Admiral MS Pawar, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha (Retd), Vice Admiral B Guha (Retd), several serving and retired senior officers from all the three services and ICG, members of diplomatic corps, prominent scholars, senior officials from state government, and other government organisations were among those present at the event.
The keynote address was delivered by Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (Retd) on “India and Indo Pacific Challenges and Opportunities”. Commodore Bhaskar is on the Advisory Panel of the India International Centre (IIC) and India Habitat Centre (IHC) in New Delhi.
He is also President Association for Middle Eastern Studies, New Delhi and a Council member of the Takshashila Foundation, Bengaluru. He is currently the Director of Society for Policy Studies (SPS), New Delhi.
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