An extraordinary intellect

An extraordinary intellect

"She was my grandmother so I could have wanted to create a portrait of a person who was very fantastic and - she was fantastic and wonderful - but I didn't want to do anything that wasn't factual that tried to whitewash anything she did - there ware controversial things about her and her academic life and how she went about things. I knew this from my own mother 's view of her. One of the reasons Thiago and I did get along was because we were very clear that we weren't going to do a hagiography" -- Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago Pinto Barbosa, co-authors of 'Iru; the Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve' talk to Manjula Narayan about the pioneering Indian anthropologist, her time in 1920s Berlin where she did her PhD under racist anthropologist Eugin Fischer, her use of the Mahabharata and other ancient Indian texts to help her interpret contemporary questions about language, culture and religion in Indian society, Yugant, their own use of critical fabulation in the writing of this book, and the strange similarity between the sarcasm and dourness of the people of Berlin and of Karve's hometown, Pune! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Road to Zanskar

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Slow and steady wins the race

Slow and steady wins the race

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The quiet pull of the Pune police procedural

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A return to the land

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Using stick figures to demolish dubious politics, doublespeak and more

Using stick figures to demolish dubious politics, doublespeak and more

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26 Feb 1h 5min

A fight against forgetting

A fight against forgetting

"Comics and literature allow us to enter worlds through our imagination; it is a medium of not-saying. We read because we want to get into the interior worlds of say, a family living in a room in Algi...

19 Feb 59min

A people willing to sacrifice their lives to save nature

A people willing to sacrifice their lives to save nature

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Jewellery: Of ornamentation and adornment

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