Events

Karthikeyan Damodaran, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen In contrast to an established idiom of spatial representation of North Madras in Tamil films as a distinct urban ghetto –, portraying it as a masculine,...

Karthick Ram Manoharan, Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions Individual Fellow, University of Wolverhampton In his lifetime and after, Periyar gained much notoriety for his acerbic comments on the Hindu epic Ramayana and the Hindu god Rama. As is commonly known in South...

Sonam Kachru, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia  The tragically short-lived philosopher and theologian Bibhuti S. Yadav (1943-1999) often returned to the Buddhist Candrakīrti’s In Lucid Words (circa 7th century C.E.), a...

Ajay Skaria, Professor of History, University of Minnesota  Already in his own time, and ever more so in the last four decades, Gandhi’s politics have been subjected to powerful critiques from the left. While many of these critiques are entirely correct, they can,...

Ahona Panda, Humanities Teaching Fellow, the University of Chicago The question of the state language of East Pakistan was debated at length in parliament and in civil society between 1948 and 1956. While West Pakistan tried to impose Urdu as the sole state...