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A book discussion on ‘Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India’, authored by Anagha Ingole was held on 10 July 2021 via Zoom. It was chaired by Priyadarshini Vijaisri. The panelists included Anagha Ingole, Gopal Guru and Akeel Bilgrami.

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Warwick Anderson delivered the Consortium of Humanities Centers (CHCI) Annual Meeting 2021 Keynote Address and a CSDS Conversation on ‘How to Do Critical History in a Pandemic’ online on 19 May 2021. The video is available on YouTube.   

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A panel discussion on ‘Making Sense of ‘Dharma’ in Contemporary India’ was held on 5 July 2021 via Zoom. It is based on Study ‘Religion in India: Tolerance and Segregation’ conducted by Pew Research Center, US. It will be moderated by Hilal Ahmed.

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‘Status of Policing in India Report 2020-2021-Policing in Conflict-Affected Regions’ was released online on April 19, 2021. It was followed by a panel discussion on ‘Can Extrajudicial Killings be the State Policy?’. Justice Madan B Lokur delivered the Keynote Address on ‘Is the Rule of Law Backsliding in India? Our Challenges in the 2020s’. 

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In this episode of ‘Speaking Otherwise: CSDS Podcast Series’, Prathama Banerjee speaks to Rajeev Bhargava on the place of religion in contemporary public life.  The discussion revolves around practices of secularism in India, the relationship between religion and caste, ancient and medieval histories of religious conflict and co-existence in the subcontinent and the concept of post-secularism as a possible optic to understand our times.