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Rohini Mohan delivered a lecture on ‘Seasons of Change: The Legacy of Impunity in Sri Lanka’ on 17 February 2015 at CSDS.  Sri Lanka has had a tumultuous decade. After the end of its three-decade-long civil war in May 2009, it saw...

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The Golden Jubilee Lecture by Mamadou Diouf  ‘State and Sufi Islam in Senegal: The (Un)Making of the Senegalese Social Contract’ was delivered on 21 March 2014 at the CSDS Seminar Room. Senegal has been hailed as a model of "Good..

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A symposium on ‘Past Connections, Contemporary Debates: India and Turkey’ was held on 12-13 February 2015 at CSDS. Hitherto India and Turkey have been compared to make points about their distinct and specific understandings of modernity,...

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Rajni Kothari the founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies passed away on 19 January 2015. He was a noted intellectual and a pre-eminent political scientist who radically changed the contours of the discipline.

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Jonathan Sterne delivered a lecture on ‘MP3: From Infrastructure for Format and Back Again’ at CSDS on 13 January 2015. The lecture was chaired by Ravi Vasudevan. Jonathan Sterne is Professor and James McGill Chair in Culture and Technology.