Category :(Discussion)

‘Remembering Dhirubhai Sheth’: A memorial meeting was held on 21 May 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on Facebook. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The speakers included Abhay Kumar Dubey, Ashis Nandy, Bhikhu Parekh, Deepak Nayyar

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Professor Dhirubhai Sheth, Honorary Fellow and former Director of CSDS passed away on 7 May 2021. He was 85 and had been ailing for some time. Dhirubhai was among the founder members of CSDS, joining the Centre in November

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A Roundtable on ‘Populism and Minorities: New Directions in the Humanities and Social Sciences’ was held on 12-13 April 2021. It was chaired by Ananya Vajpeyi. The speakers included Prasanta Chakravarty, Hilal Ahmed, E. Sridharan, Mujibur Rehman, Christophe Jaffrelot, Ajay Gudavarthy, Peter R. deSouza, Volker Kaul.

Category :(Book Discussion)

A book discussion on ‘Modernity, its Pathologies and Reenchantments’, edited by Shail Mayaram was held on 9 April 2021 via Zoom. The video is available on YouTube. It was chaired by Ravi Sundaram. The panelists included Dipesh Chakrabarty and Shankar Ramaswami. This book is

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[POSTPONED]: A panel discussion on ‘Aesthetics and Politics: A Dialogue across Continents’ scheduled on 5 April 2021 via Zoom has been postponed due to Coronavirus infection of the panelists. Inconvenience Regretted.