Meaning of words and their contextual use is important. How are Myth and History commonly understood and what, against this, is meant by...

Vrinda Grover is a lawyer, researcher, and human rights and women’s rights activist based in New Delhi, India.

Developing sound historical consciousness is critical in our ability to effectively respond to the realities we are faced with. Active...

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian as well as an Emeritus professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

R. Siva Kumar is an Indian contemporary art historian, art critic and curator.

Delivered as part of Shared Histories, a History for Peace conference held at and co-organized by St Kabir Public School, Chandigarh.

Mridu Rai is the author of the prizewinning book Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir.

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian and an Emeritus professor at the JNU. Her principal area of study is ancient India.

Nandini Sundar is a professor of sociology at the DSE whose research interests include political sociology, law and inequality.

Krishna Kumar is an educationist, former Director of NCERT, bilingual author, columnist and writer for children.

Rajeev Bhargava is Professor at CSDS, Delhi and currently, Director of the Centre’s Institute of Indian Thought.

Gautam Bhatia wrote Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution and, The Transformative Constitution.

Kumkum Roy teaches ancient Indian History at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Abeer Gupta, is currently director of Krishnakriti Foundation, Hyderabad. He is also director of Achi Association India.

Aanchal Malhotra is a visual artist and oral historian. Anam Zakaria is an author and educationist. Tina Sevaia is a teaching practitioner.

Latika Gupta teaches educational theory and pedagogy courses at Delhi University’s Central Institute of Education.

Sundar Sarukkai is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry among others.

Ameen Sayani is a popular former radio announcer from India.

After working as director of Leap Years, Sohail Hashmi started his heritage walks, writing on Delhi and around culture, language communalism

This talk was presented in August 2018 as part of the fourth annual History for Peace conference, The Idea of Culture, Calcutta.