Category: Book
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Episode 24: Carrying Worlds Across Languages- In conversation with Daisy Rockwell
Daisy Rockwell is an author, translator, and painter based in the United States, who translates from Hindi and Urdu into English, and has brought some of the most significant voices of South Asian literature to readers across the world. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize in 2022, the…
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Episode 23: What Women Want: Understanding The Female Voter in Modern India- In conversation with Ruhi Tewari
In the long history of post-Independence India, the woman voter was invisible, rarely spoken about and almost never listened to. But today, something has changed. Women are voting in greater numbers than ever before, making independent choices and holding politicians accountable. Journalist Ruhi Tewari draws on two decades of travelling across various states in India,…
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Episode 22: A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras- In conversation with Kalpana Karunakaran
What does it mean to recover the life of a woman who called herself a ‘humble housewife tied to mundane work’? In this episode, I am in conversation with Kalpana Karunakaran to discuss her book, ‘A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras’, a remarkable excavation of the life of Pankajam, a…