Conversations
at Manthan

THE TALK Why does sex always have law breathing down its neck? Why can the law not get its hands off sex? Straddling the line between public and private, sex...

PADI BHAVAJALALU “vyavasayika parisramika samajala madhya oka maha antaramlo neti sanskhobhamulalu” Telugu translation of “TEN IDEOLOGIES” authored by Late Sri S. Jaipal Reddy Translated by Sri Kalluri Bhaskaram Sri M....

THE TALK John Maynard Keynes, an oft-quoted but less-read economist, is said to have remarked: ‘If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you...

THE CONVERSATION The multitude of nuanced cultural facets that define Hyderabad are very often glossed over by either its relatively recent official designation as the ‘City of Pearls’ or the...

THE TALK Post lockdown we saw thousands of migrants walking back to their villages. There have been newspaper reports of hunger and distress. On the other side of the spectrum,...

THE TALK Since the late 1940s, China and India have been unable to agree on a border between the two newly emerged Asian giants, even fighting a war in 1962...

THE TALK Barkha Dutt was on the COVID Trail that has taken her across the length and breadth of the country across 13 states in 88 days and clocking in...

THE TALK The theory of karma posits a natural relation between an agent, the agent's action, and the fruits of the agent's actions. The theory connects virtuous actions to virtuous...

THE TALK India crossed UK’s GDP in 2019. It was not God’s will that it should take 72 years for 1.3 billion Indians to cross the GDP of 66 million...

THE TALK Dr Thomas Isaac will speak on the Kerala experience in fighting Covid and about issues concerning centre-state relations in the current context. Dr T. M. Thomas Issac Minister...