Conversations
at Manthan

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...

Breaking Barriers: K. Madhava Rao in conversation with M.R. Vikram Breaking Barriers: The Story of A Dalit Chief Secretary are the memoirs of Kaki Madhava Rao who joined the Indian...