Speaker
Sh. Sanjeev Chopra
Festival Director, Valley of Words
Shri Sanjeev Chopra is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Contemporary Studies at the Prime Ministers Memorial and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi, and Festival Director of Valley of Words, a Dehradun-based pan-India festival of literature and arts. He superannuated as Director of the LBS National Academy of Administration after 36 years in the IAS. His recent books include The Great Conciliator: Lal Bahadur Shastri and the Transformation of India (Bloomsbury, 2025) and We, the People of the States of Bharat: The Making and Remaking of India's Internal Boundaries (HarperCollins, 2022).