Ramnath Goenka Excellence In Journalism Awards

As part of the centenary year celebrations of its founder, Ramnath Goenka, The Express Group instituted the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards. The Awards aim to celebrate excellence in journalism, recognise courage and commitment and showcase outstanding contributions of individuals every year. The most prestigious annual event in the Indian media calendar, it pays tribute to journalists from print & broadcast who maintain the highest standards of their profession and despite facing political and economic pressure, still manage to produce work that generates and sustains public trust in the media and impacts the lives of people.

The Indian Express Adda

Express Adda, is in essence, a conversation, eclectic and erudite, intimate and informal. The guests at Express Adda are subject experts in various fields, people from diverse backgrounds and different walks of life, newsmakers and policy shapers. The programme aims to connect with global thought leaders, key decision makers, strategists, and newsmakers in a series of exciting conversations that are intelligent and fun. Express Adda is held as an open Q&A session, moderated by our highly regarded editors.

Excellence in Governance Awards

Excellence In Governance Awards honours District Magistrates from across the 700 districts in the country for innovations implemented by them in their areas, which had a positive impact on the welfare of the citizens and government efficiency.

The programme recognizes and celebrates the wealth of inspirational individuals and innovative projects within the District Magistrates community. The awards help spread best practices across government, sharing innovation, leadership and learning.

Those District Magistrates who have worked on and helped introduce change in their districts, through innovative introduction or management or planning of schemes, ideas and projects would be awarded and encouraged every two years, for excellence in Education, Health, Inclusion, use of Technology and many more categories.

Shri Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture

The Ramnath Goenka Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture from The Indian Express Group. The lecture brings together some of the finest thinkers, newsmakers and subject experts across diverse fields to address an audience on current issues from the field of business, politics, sciences, the arts, and governance. The Speaker is a leading authority on his or her subject who shares ideas, raises questions and inspires thought to action. Past speakers include Raghuram Rajan, Pranab Mukherjee, Ranjan Gogoi and S Jaishankar.

Explained.Live

Explained.Live is a forum where current news happenings that impact the world are discussed and analyzed by the subject matter experts.

These subject matter experts breakdown the complex news issues, and explain the ramifications of the issue at hand, in a open conversation with our elite readers.

Each session starts with a conversation between our eminent editor and the speaker/s, which is followed by open house discussions and interactions with these subject experts for about 45 minutes.

The Indian Express Film Club

Cinema, or motion picture, is the art of moving images; a visual medium that tells stories and exposes reality. Created in the dusk of the 19th century, cinema is the world’s most recent art form. The Indian Express Film Club brings the same spirit of explanation as found in the paper, through stories and cinema that compel us to reflect and think. The films are carefully selected and curated by celebrated film critic, Shubhra Gupta. The films selected by her are from both, World Cinema and Indian cinema including regional cinema. Each screening is followed by a stimulating interaction with cinelovers who are encouraged to express their views without inhibitions. The post-film discussion also helps in reinforcing the principles and beliefs in the film that choose to take on many real-life issues that still plague our society. The film club conducts one film screening every month in Mumbai and Delhi.

Indian Express Thinc

It is a thought forum that brings together leaders, policymakers on a single-focus platform to exchange ideas with relevant audience. The objective being to encourage a substantive exchange of ideas on key issues confronting a particular subject area and get the best minds to give it direction and solutions.

Each session is spearheaded by the accomplished experts and thinkers. The discussion is moderated by a senior IE Editor followed by a short question/answer round from the audience. Past series have included conversations on digitization and its impact; internal migration; reimagining school education and gender.