Conversations
at Manthan

Entrenching Impunity, Peddling Justice for Rape: A Case for Feminist Civil Liberties Vrinda Grover Advocate, Supreme Court of India Vrinda Grover is a lawyer, researcher and human rights activist based...

Why Liberal Democracy is necessary for Indian Development Raghuram Rajan Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He...

The Secular Court and the Freedom of Religion How far must courts in India go in interpreting matters of religious faith? Should judges at all be concerned with religion? These...

WEAPONISATION OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY The talk will draw attention to issues that are new; have no established global frameworks for states to work with; and are posing challenges that States...

The Commissioner for Lost Causes The new book by Arun Shourie, The Commissioner for Lost Causes, discusses his innings at The Indian Express. A comprehensive account of dramatic incidents like...

India’s Seafood Industry: Boon or Bane ? Until India’s independence, unlike the forest regions that came under colonial extraction mechanisms, the coasts remained largely neglected. But soon after independence, India...

Dropping out, Being pushed out, or Can't get in? - Why women in the Indian labour force are few and declining Women's labour force participation rate has been stubbornly low...

B Venkatesh Varma B. Venkatesh Varma was a student of Vidyaranya, Hyderabad Public School, Nizam College and Jawaharlal Nehru University; He served in the Indian Foreign Service between 1988 and...

Rebels against the Raj Rebels against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own. Foreigners to India who,...

Hate Speech in India The presentation will dwell on hate speech in general and how the courts have reacted or failed to react to complaints; the response or lack of...