“India’s democracy coexists extraordinary powers” - A conversation with Prof. Gyan Prakash
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the "The Emergency" on 25 June 1975. It lasted for 21 month period from 1975 to 1977. This period is often referred to as the dark period and an aberratio...
24 Jun 202046min
Emergency Special | Suchitra Vijayan in Conversation with Annie Zaidi
A nation needs its anthems, flags, soldiers, and statues. But, the function of the writer is something else. Writers are the ones who capture the conflict, the dissonance, and often the lies we are co...
24 Jun 202043min
Riflessioni Sulla Vulnerabilità/Musings On Vulnerability - A Conversation with Francesca Mannocchi
Francesca Recchia in conversation with Francesca Mannocchi. Francesca Mannocchi is a freelance journalist who covers migration and conflicts and contributes to numerous Italian and international newsp...
9 Apr 202031min
Patterns of violence, impunity and silence | conversation with Bharti Ali and Nidhi Suresh
On 12 December 2019, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 - rightly referred to as India’s Nuremberg Law - was passed, leading to widespread protests across the country. Millions of Indian citizens a...
27 Feb 202035min
Conversation with Mehr Manda and Mayukh Goswami, creators of the web comic, “Jamun Ka Ped”
Since December 2019 millions of Indians have protested the contentious “Citizenship Amendment Act” (CAA)-- rightly called the Nuremberg laws of India. Since the protest started there as been brutal ...
20 Feb 202029min
Hindutva And The University
The sustained assaults on universities and schools in Kashmir, the long-standing discrimination against Dalits and minorities at Indian universities, and the recent armed attacks on students and facul...
14 Feb 20201h 56min
India’s Breaking Point by talk by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Prof Nilsen discusses the attacks on students and faculty at JNU in relation to the ongoing conflict and its significance to the protests that have been ongoing across India since the middle of Decemb...
11 Jan 202026min
Hindutva and the falsifications of Indian history, a talk by Prof. Irfan Habib
Yesterday, Twitter was awash with posts about events at the Indian Historical Congress in Kannur. The eminent historian Irfan Habib has disrupted proceedings as Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, as ...
29 Des 201946min
