India’s Unequal Economy & Majoritarian Polity The Talk The political economy gradually unfolding in India today is one in which the dominance of the rich in the economic domain and...
The Politics & Economics of Budget 2024 The Talk There was much speculation about how the Union Budget for 2024-25, the first of the third term of the coalition of...
Mirza Ghalib in India’s Long 19th Century: The Poet in his Labyrinth The Talk Mirza Ghalib was born in Mughal India, and died in colonial India. We remember him as...
The Case for Optimism The Talk Hindutva's vision for India has sparked significant discourse, necessitating a thoughtful response for both development and society. South Asia’s weak development is in one...
Just A Mercenary? The Talk At the start of his career as sub-collector of Parvathipuram in 1974, Subbarao learnt – the hard way - that tribal development requires more than...
Ambedkar meets Gandhi : A Complex Encounter The Talk Ashok Gopal talks about the dynamics between Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi . "Ambedkar versus Gandhi" is a commonly held...
An Odyssey with Films About the talk Bollywood’s narrative weaves bright and dark tales, shaping myths and shattering dreams. It births stars and obscures talent amidst staggering numbers, thrilling spectacles,...
Pakistan’s Dubious Elections: What’s up Next ? Pakistan’s 2024 nationwide elections have led to unexpected consequences marked by increasing discord and conflict. Who won, who lost, and why has this...
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...
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...
Explaining the rise of (Right-wing) Populism in India, Russia, Brazil and Turkey Waves of populist movements have been on the rise globally since the global financial crisis of 2008. The...
’ Land Guns Caste Woman: The Memoir of a Lapsed Revolutionary’ About the book 1980s. Ibrahimpatnam, Telangana, South India. Landless dalits are caught between a Reddy and a hard place....
Reclaiming our Republic We are witnessing nothing short of a systematic dismantling of our republic. Is there a way out? What is the role and responsibility of political parties? And...
Generative AI Revolution: What Happens to our Reality When AI Can Spin Many Synthetic Realities? We are entering the brave new world of the so-called Generative AI, where AI systems...
The Challenge of Contemporary History To coincide with the publication of the third, revised, edition of India after Gandhi, Ramachandra Guha will speak on the challenges confronting a historian documenting...
India as A Linguistic Civilisation The talk ‘India as a Linguistic Civilisation’ will attempt to trace the many origins of Indian languages, their diverse historical trajectories and their contemporary inequalities...
About the book: Former Hindustan Unilever chairman Ashok Ganguly invites readers to journey with him as he looks back fondly on his life. The story spans eighty years of his...
The Promised Land: India's National Education Policy 2020 The NEP 2020 was a long overdue assessment of the state of education in India. Crafted by a diverse group of experts,...
The Promised Land: India's National Education Policy 2020 The NEP 2020 was a long overdue assessment of the state of education in India. Crafted by a diverse group of experts,...
Together We Rise: From Poverty to Progress in Our Villages Poverty alleviation is among the most pressing socioeconomic policy concerns today. Can the poor come together to help each other...
Constitution of India's Secular Credentials This talk will be moderated by Alok Prasanna Kumar of Vidhi While “secularism” remains present in the Preamble of the Constitution, as a principle, it...
Join us as on 17th September for the very first Ajay gandhi Memorial Lecture, by Dr Palanivel Thiaga Rajan Talk - Democracy and Local Governments: A neglect to be addressed...
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...
Netaji- The Mortal End of an Immortal Hero The life of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has passed into the realms of legend. His brilliant mind and magnetic personality, boundless courage...
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...
