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Saagar Tewari delivered a lecture on ‘Jai Jaipal!, Jai Adibasi!: A Forgotten Saga of Minority Politics (1935-1950)’ on 24 January 2022 via Zoom. It was chaired by Prathama Banerjee. Hailing from the Chota Nagpur region, PramodPahan a.k.a. Jaipal Singh Munda remains an enigmatic figure in the history of twentieth century tribal solidarity movements.

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A book discussion on ‘Competing Nationalisms: The Sacred and Political Life of Jagat Narain Lal’ by Rajshree Chandra was held on 15 January 2022 via Zoom. It was jointly organized by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. It was chaired by Antara Datta. The discussants include Apoorvanand and Aditya Nigam. 

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In this episode, Baidik Bhattacharya speaks to Emily Apter on translation, untranslatability, comparative literature, and the future of the humanities in a post-pandemic world. The discussion covers a range of issues like the status of humanistic knowledge in the contemporary world, decolonization, the challenges to literary studies and so on that have direct bearings on our intellectual lives today. 

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Debjani Bhattacharyya delivered a lecture on ‘Oceanic Settlements: Underwriting Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal’ on 17 December 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Awadhendra Sharan. This talk argued that the coterminous development of financial instruments of risk management and the British imperial expansion

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Saurabh Mishra delivered a lecture on ‘Emotions and Science: The Case of Ornithology in Colonial India’ on 22 December 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Awadhendra Sharan. This lecture explored the rich and complex history of birdwatching and the