Conversations
at Manthan

What is the role of spirituality in your life? Do you pray? Is religion part of your identity or does it make you uncomfortable?    To answer these and other...

THE TALK Was India split between Muslim North and Hindu South?    It is often said that, between the 14th and 17th centuries, the Deccan was split between a “Muslim”...

THE TALK The asymmetry of power with China is at the heart of India’s geopolitical dilemna. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to intensify this asymmetry. The pandemic is also leading to...

THE TALK Who can miss the drum beat of cricket’s New India? The world’s richest franchise league, the world’s most powerful board, the world’s biggest stadium, even one of the...

THE TALK The spectacular diversity of Indian cooking tends to be considered an art, rather than a craft. This talk will seek to dispel this notion by arguing that simple,...

THE TALK In 2021 we're in the afterglow of another Australia and India test series that enchanted us all. It marked 20 years since another great series - the iconic...

THE TALK The migration crisis of 2020 unleashed by the lockdown to contain the Covid-19 crisis in India raised important questions about migration and health. This talk revolves around two...

THE CONVERSATION India's over 200 million Dalits have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of this mobilization are puzzling. Dalits' ethnic parties have performed poorly...

THE TALK For an Indian, Japan can be both confoundingly strange and comfortingly familiar. Pallavi Aiyar will discuss her encounters – aesthetic, political and epidemiological – with the country, from...

THE TALK In its quest for global power, India has been focused on its relationship with the big powers. The neighbourhood, other than China and Pakistan, has been often ignored...