North Carolina State University

Speaker: Vijay Swami
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Topic: "A journey through North East India: History, people, contemporary issues"
Venue: EB I
Time: 7:30PM
Date: 2nd Oct, 07
Organized By: Hindu Students Council, NCSU Chapter

Looking at the slim attendance and a few hiccups in starting the event, it occurred to us that the presentation at NCSU will not be a very good experience. But the interaction at the end of the talk made up for everything else. The talk was well appreciated given Vijay's personal experiences, and good use of images in the presentation. The talk was an eye-opener for many of them, they weren't aware of the ground situation and the efforts underway to better the same.

4-5 showed interest in visiting Arunachal for some days, and 1 for being there for about 1 month. Vijay ji's friendly and welcoming manner was very encouraging, he personally introduced himself to everyone after the talk, exchanged contact details and extended an accomodation-sponsered trip to Arunachal for everyone present :) This informal interaction went on for about an hour, and combined with the presentation did a good job of triggering a spark among the students present.