Category :(Discussion)

A book launch of Suraj Yengde’s Book ‘Caste Matters’ was held on 30 July 2019 at CSDS. The discussion was chaired by Ananya Vajpeyi. The discussants were Surinder S. Jodhka and Harish S. Wankhede. Suraj Yengde is a Shorenstein Center inaugural post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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A panel discussion on ‘The Peoples of Early India: Origins, Migrations and Identities’ will be held on 9 August 2019 at CSDS. The discussion will be chaired and moderated by Ananya Vajpeyi. The panelists include Romila Thapar, Tony Joseph and

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Johannes Bronkhorst delivered the 5th C R Parekh Memorial Lecture on ‘Rethinking India’s Past’ on 7 August 2019 at India International Centre, New Delhi. The lecture was organized by Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS. This lecture explored the cultural history

Category :(Announcements)

Girish Karnad was a leading playwright, actor, director, bellettrist, polymath and public intellectual of independent India. He was born in Matheran, near Bombay, on May 19, 1938, grew up in Dharwar on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border, and lived mostly in Bangalore, where he passed away on June 10, 2019.

Category :(Publications)

A report release and discussion on ‘Social Media and Political Behaviour’ was held on 11 June 2019, 6.30 pm at The Royal Ballroom, Hotel Imperial, Janpath, Connaught Place, New Delhi. The event was chaired by Suhas Palshikar, Co-director, Lokniti: Programme for Comparative Democracy, CSDS.