Interview: Ian Sanjay Patel on Britain’s decades-long effort to keep its own non-white citizens out

The author of ‘We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire’ explains why imperial policies are key to today’s immigration debates.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 31, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections

The co-director of the Trivedi Centre for Political Data on the need for an open-data ecosystem and what Indian political scientists students need to know.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 24, 2021 · 07:30 am

Interview: Radhika Singha on the need to expand our understanding of India’s role in World War I

In ‘The Coolie’s War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921’, the JNU professor looks beyond just the experiences of soldiers.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jul 17, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Amit Basole on the pandemic’s devastating impact and the need for a fiscal response now

The head of Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment on the tremendous distress hiding beneath job market statistics in India.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jun 05, 2021 · 09:00 am

Interview: Sumitra Badrinathan on tackling fake news and the effects of BJP’s ‘supply advantage’

An experiment in Bihar found teaching people to identify misinformation did not make them better at it – and may even have backfired.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· May 29, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Interview: Avinash Paliwal on challenges posed to India by the Taliban and Myanmar’s military coup

The author of ‘My Enemy’s Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet invasion to the US withdrawal’ on New Delhi’s unsettled neighbourhood.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· May 22, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: ‘India’s vaccine Plan A was the pandemic disappearing... Its new plan makes no sense’

Murali Neelakantan and Ashish Kulkarni on what McDonalds tells us about vaccine procurement and why the Centre’s plan is all wrong.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· May 15, 2021 · 08:00 am

Interview: Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean and the need for Delhi to have a ‘maritime mentality’

The head of Carnegie’s new Indian Ocean initiative on how policymakers came around to the ‘Indo-Pacific idea’.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Apr 17, 2021 · 07:30 am

Interview: Audrey Truschke on Sanskrit histories of the Mughal era and Hindutva trolls

The author of ‘The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts’ speaks about the most recent controversy, historical misreadings and more.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Mar 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the ‘cash-transfer state’

The author of ‘In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast’ speaks about how the past animates Assam’s present.

Arunabh Saikia

· Mar 27, 2021 · 09:00 am

Interview: Yashaswini Chandra on what the horse tells us about India's past

The author of ‘The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback’ on the animal’s influence over mythology and the medieval economy.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 23, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Alice Evans on why India's big feminist demand should be labour-intensive growth

The author of the forthcoming ‘The Great Gender Divergence’ on how agriculture can explain why some parts of India are more gender-equal than others.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 16, 2021 · 06:30 am