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Community Talkies is the official podcast of the Manipal Centre for Humanities located in coastal Karnataka, India. Community Talkies is the coming together of artists, scholars, explorers, who want to be in conversation with the latest in the world of ideas. These conversations are designed to be accessible, intelligible, invigorating and fun for anyone interested in the humanities and social sciences. Listen in!

Episodes

  1. 03/17/2023

    CT E02 Tanika Sarkar in conversation with Neha Chatterji

    Tanika Sarkar retired as Professor, Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has taught at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Witwatersrand, and Gottingen. Her work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, caste and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right. Her several books include Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation (2001), Rebels, Wives, Saints (2009) and Hindu Nationalism in India (2022). A recent volume that she has co-edited with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, is Caste in Bengal: Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion and Resistance (2022). Neha Chatterji is Assistant Professor of History at the Manipal Centre for Humanities (MAHE, Karnataka, India), which she joined in 2018. Her doctoral dissertation (‘Sacred Calling, Worldly Bargain: Caste, Self-Cultivation and Mobilization in Late Colonial Bengal’, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2017) and published essays explore the lesser-known worlds of subordinate caste affirmations in twentieth and twenty-first century Bengal.

    28 min

  2. 02/20/2023

    CT E01 Madhavi Menon in conversation with Ketaki Chowkhani

    Listen in to Dr Ketaki Chowkhani, faculty - Manipal Centre for Humanities, in conversation with Prof Madhavi Menon. Prof Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University. She earned her Bachelors and Masters in English from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and her PhD from Tufts University.  Dr Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. She teaches India's first ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, New York Times, Square Peg, The Hindu, Journal of Porn Studies, in edited volumes published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press, In Plainspeak, Teacher Plus, DNA, Kafila.online, and Roundtable India.

    29 min
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Community Talkies is the official podcast of the Manipal Centre for Humanities located in coastal Karnataka, India. Community Talkies is the coming together of artists, scholars, explorers, who want to be in conversation with the latest in the world of ideas. These conversations are designed to be accessible, intelligible, invigorating and fun for anyone interested in the humanities and social sciences. Listen in!

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