This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference, Coimbatore held in October 2024. I will begin by recounting an experience that we had in November 2022 when we did a workshop at Shantiniketan—a small university town near Kolkata—with school children studying in classes 4 and 5. We conducted a workshop where we made multiple cards that could be classified into two broad categories—national identities (Indian, German, British etc.) and non-national identities (religious...

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference in Coimbatore on 5, 6 October, 2024

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference in Coimbatore on 5, 6 October 2024.