Beginning with a conversation between Romila Thapar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and concluding with a talk by Ravish Kumar, this conference saw multiple ideas of India being grappled with from various perspectives. Speakers included Krishna Kumar, Hari Vasudevan, Sudhanva Deshpande, Joy Pachuau, Ryan Lobo, T. Sananthanan (Sri Lanka) and Radhika Bordia among others.
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Contents
Opening Address
NAVEEN KISHORE
In Conversation
ROMILA THAPAR AND GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
In Conversation
ROMILA THAPAR, ALOK MATHUR, AMITA PRASAD, TINA SERVAIA
In Conversation: History Textbooks and The Idea of India
KRISHNA KUMAR, HARI VASUDEVAN, SHIREEN MASWOOD, MANISH JAIN
THE UN-EQUIVALENCE OF VIOLENCE:The Communal Question in Janam’s Plays
SUDHANVA DESHPANDE (An Illustrated Talk)
How to Draw Histories? Art as Method
T. SANATHANAN
The Camera as Witness
JOY LK PACHUAU, RYAN LOBO
Biography as History
JERRY PINTO
India in the Ruins of the Present
VIJAY PRASHAD
Social Media and the Idea of India
RADHIKA BORDIA