Conversations
at Manthan

India- A history through Women, Sport, and Citizenship About the talk In India, women received the vote with Independence. Yet, a line runs through our citizenship: In the private sphere...

Vijay Nambisan Lecture: ‘India’s Covid Tragedy’ About the book The official figure of close to 500,000 deaths during the two waves of the Covid-19 pandemic in India are widely believed...

Reimagining India’s Economic Future About the talk Is India growing rapidly today and on the cusp of transforming the lives of its people? Is global manufacturing rushing to India and...

The 2nd Ajay Gandhi Memorial Lecture: Wokeness of Caste and the Culture of Untouchability What has managed to universalize these emotional responses is the intermediary role the internet has taken...

Black x Brown Love Can Help Change The World About the talk The world is now witnessing numerous cases of violent conflicts and, even worse, genocides in real-time, because of...

Rethinking Tradition and Modernity: Reflections on Romantic Anti-Capitalism We often think of our societies and world as moving forward to greater levels of technology mobilized by capitalism. And yet, since...

Memoirs of Hyderabad’s Forgotten Hero Abid Hasan Safrani Abid Hasan Safrani, a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, was a quiet revolutionary from Hyderabad who kept himself out of...

Caste Pride Caste Pride is a radically new history of caste, based on previously unseen legislative and judicial records going back over two centuries. It traces battles for equality that...

Data and its Discontents: An independent statistical system is as vital for democracy as a free press or an independent judiciary. The Indian statistical system had an enviable reputation of...

Manipur’s violence and the ‘institutionalised riot system’: The limits of an integrationist and majoritarian agenda The talk will examine the causes and nature of violence that has erupted in Manipur...