Rahul Gandhi calls for new thinking for democratic systems at Cambridge University address

London: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi focussed his lecture at the prestigious University of Cambridge on the “art of listening” and called for a new thinking to promote a democratic environment globally, as opposed to a coercive one.

Referencing to a decline in manufacturing in democratic countries such as India and the US in recent years as production shifted to China, Gandhi said the shift had produced mass inequality and anger which needed urgent attention and dialogue.

The Opposition MP, who is a Visiting Fellow of the Cambridge Judge Business School (Cambridge JBS), delivered the lecture to students at the university on the subject of ‘Learning to Listen in the 21st Century’ on Tuesday evening.