Forum of Free Enterprise to hold the 41st Ardeshir Darabshaw (AD) Shroff Memorial Lecture in Mumbai
Mumbai, October 10, 2007

To be presented by R Gopalakrishnan (executive director, Tata Sons) on Friday, October 12, 2007 at the Bombay House Auditorium

Forum of Free Enterprise, in memory of its founder-president, has organised the 41st AD Shroff Lecture. R Gopalakrishnan will deliver the lecture on "Prosperity beyond our cities by spreading enterprise," which will be held on Friday, October 12, 2007 at Bombay House at 6:15pm in the evening. The lecture is a tribute to AD Shroff for his relentless contribution to the economic philosophy and vision for Indian Enterprise in today's context.

AD Shroff is one of the few industrialists who played an important role in encouraging public opinion on various issues related to the Indian enterprise. He promoted the Forum of Free Enterprise in 1956 to educate public opinion on implications and measures of various policies and project the great contribution private enterprise could make to speedy development of the economy. He believed in planning but not to the extent that it would stifle individual initiative and enterprise.

The lecture to be addressed by R Gopalakrishnan would also share significant insights into significance of enterprise in India today. It would also focus on how one needs to liberate India by empowering the people and promoting more local governance.