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New Delhi: The signature thought fest that puts India first, TV9 Network’s ‘What India Thinks Today Summit 2026’ is back with its fourth edition. Scheduled for 23-24 March 2026 at the nation’s capital, the highlight of the summit will be the keynote address delivered by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.

The Prime Minister would be gracing the ‘What India Thinks Today Summit’ for the third consecutive time. This underscores the growing importance of the ‘What India Thinks Today’ platform, one that brings together the country’s leading voices to deliberate on the most pressing issues and newly emerging opportunities at today’s pivotal time period.

Articulating – ‘India and the World’

TV9 Network’s flagship thought platform, What India Thinks Today (WITT) Summit returns for its fourth, 2026 edition. The event is both timely and pivotal, coming at a time when India’s economic ambitions, climate responsibilities, and geopolitical positioning are intersecting more sharply than ever. Anchored this year in the overarching theme of “India & The World,” the summit serves as a high-level convening of policymakers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, and global thinkers to decode the forces shaping India’s present and future.

The stage is set by the keynote address delivered by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. It then builds into a force of ideas, engagement and conversations from a wide spectrum of distinguished and impactful voices from diverse fields relevant to the Indian growth story.

Apart from the Prime Minister’s keynote address, Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Jyotiraditya Scindia are also expected to grace the event. Other major political voices to be heard in the Summit include Smriti Irani, Former Union Minister for Women & Child Development and Minister, and Akhilesh Yadav and Asaduddin Owaisi, both Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha.

A testimony to the summit’s vision of articulating India’s growth voices, top political voices will set the discourse, as Madhya Pradesh chief Minister Mohan Yadav and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will converge to share their views on the TV9 stage. Anumula Revanth Reddy, Chief Minister, Telangana

and D. K. Shivakumar, Deputy Chief Minister, Karnataka, will also be present to further enrich the political conversation that charts India and the world theme.

Global voices like Boardroom Legend Prof. Ram Charan and Reuven Azar, Israel Ambassador to India, will also be sharing the Indian story and its global intersection. Interesting and popular voices like Indian poet Kumar Vishwas, Indian Poet  and Yoga Guru Swami Ramdev will also be part of the unmissable two day extravaganza.

Several illuminating sessions are also included in the Summit, pertaining to some of the most pertinent questions of our times. Be it economic prerogatives, climate dilemmas or the country’s security concerns, the ‘What India Thinks Today Summit 2026’ brings together a spate of top voices to engage and illuminate various aspects of problems we encounter today and highlight the progress that the forward looking India of today is making.

Other unmissable points in the summit include many conversations with Indian sporting legends. Prime among them is cricketing legend Sourav Ganguly, followed by two young Indian cricketers, Axar Patel and Arshdeep Singh. We also have joining the WITT stage, appearance by cricketers Deepti Sharma, World Cup winning team member and Aavishkar Salvi, women’s team bowling coach, in what is slated to be one of the biggest and most influential thought festivals of its kind, TV9 Network’s ‘What India Think Today Summit 2026’.