A convention centre in New Delhi, India, known for organising lectures and hosting discussions. Set up in 1960, its building was designed by architect Joseph Allen Stein. It has hosted and organised public programmes for personalities such as Noam Chomsky, the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and Salman Rushdie.
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