Book discussion on ‘Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region’. It was chaired by Ravikant. The discussants included Navkiran Natt, T. Brandon Evans and Daljit Ami.
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Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region (Routledge, 2025) explores how music and sound shape everyday life in Punjab and across its global diasporas. Moving beyond borders, the book traces how songs, performances, and listening practices travel, carrying memory, identity, and emotion across places and generations. This anniversary discussion brings together scholars and practitioners to reflect on the book’s key ideas and the continuing resonance of Punjab’s sonic worlds.
Editors
Radha Kapuria is a historian of South Asia at Durham University, specialising in music, gender, performance, and regional histories.
Vebhuti Duggal is Associate Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Discussants
Navkiran Natt is an independent scholar and filmmaker.
T. Brandon Evans is a Media and Sound Studies scholar at the Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Daljit Ami is a documentary filmmaker and Director of EMRC, Punjabi University Patiala.
Chair
Ravikant is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
Monday, 13 April 2026, 4 pm, CSDS Seminar Room and Zoom https://bit.ly/4vvmrjN
