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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

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A book launch and discussion on ‘Politics and Society Between Elections: Public Opinion in India's States’, edited by Siddharth Swaminathan and Suhas Palshikar was held on 10 December 2021, 4 pm. The event was telecast live on YouTube.

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Timothy Lubin delivered the 6th C. R. Parekh Memorial Lecture on ‘Religious Endowments in First-Millennium India’ on 7 December 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Kumkum Roy. The lecture was organized by Institute of Indian Thought, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies