INTERVIEWS | Catharsis

Apr 18
18 min

Interview: Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva has been a prominent figure in global environmental activism for decades. She is an outspoken critic of corporate...

Apr 13
10 min

Interview: Jens Lerche and Alpa Shah

Jens Lerche is Reader in Labour and Agrarian Studies at SOAS, University of London. He is a specialist on caste oppression, rural and...

Apr 13
50 min

Interview: Aseem Shrivastava

Aseem Shrivastava trained as an environmental economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught philosophy at the Nordic...

Apr 13
10 min

Community Supported Agriculture: Ashwin Paranjpe (Gorus Organic Farming Association)

What inspired you to set up this initiative? Towards the end of my Masters’ degree in horticulture at the University of Florida, in 2001...

Apr 13
33 min

Interview: Ashish Kothari

Ashish Kothari is an environmentalist and a vocal critic of conventional narratives of conservation and development. He is the founder of...

Aug 31, 2020
26 min

Shakuntala Banaji Interview: Media and Citizens

Shakuntala Banaji is Professor of Media, Culture and Social Change in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where she also...

Aug 21, 2020
8 min

The Khabar Lahariya Interview: India’s Only All-Women Run Media House

Khabar Lahariya is an all-women media house that focuses on rural journalism. The women who report the stories also edit, produce,...

Aug 13, 2020
9 min

Abhinandan Sekhri Interview: The State of Media

Abhinandan Sekhri is co-founder and CEO of media critique, news, and current affairs website Newslaundry. He is also co-founder of Small...

May 15, 2020
15 min

Interview: The State of Labour and COVID-19

Surbhi Kesar and Rosa Abraham are research fellows at Azim Premji University, Karnataka, India. Their research focuses on various areas...

Apr 22, 2020
6 min

Interview: COVID-19 and Public Health Policy

Maxwell J. Smith, PhD is a Bioethicist and Assistant Professor at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. His interests lie in...

Apr 16, 2019
4 min

Lipika Kamra: We need more women in elected bodies

Lipika Kamra is an Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2016....

Apr 8, 2019
3 min

The Hiren Gohain Interview: The NRC Question is not one of sympathy but of rights

Dr. Hiren Gohain is an Assamese public intellectual and political scientist. A veteran intellectual in the state, Dr. Gohain speaks to...

Apr 3, 2019
3 min

The Peter Cat Recording Co. Interview: Bismillah will be the end of an era for us

Peter Cat Recording Co. is an Indian band, based in Delhi. With a very interesting oeuvre, the band is fast gaining tracks with both the...

Mar 19, 2019
14 min

The Justice DY Chandrachud Interview: Supreme Court is Final not because it is right but it is right

Dr. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud is a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of India. A graduate of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and...

Mar 18, 2019
8 min

The Greg Restall Interview: For as long as I could remember, I liked asking the question “why?”

Greg Restall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He...

Feb 13, 2019
4 min

Smoking Cigarettes After Sex

There have been rarely any band in the history of music whose music has been so well personified by its name. How does it feel like,...

Feb 9, 2019
21 min

Limelight| The Dibakar Banerjee Interview: I have no idea who I am

Dibakar Banerjee is a widely celebrated filmmaker. His films Khosla ka Ghosla (2006) and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008) have both won the...

Feb 5, 2019
17 min

Limelight| The Sanjib Baruah Interview: It is important to not celebrate democracy in a sense that ‘

Dr. Sanjib Baruah is a professor of political studies at Bard College in the US, where he teaches comparative politics and international...

Jan 12, 2019
5 min

Limelight | The Steven Pinker Interview: The power of the wealthy is a real problem in democracies,

Dr. Steven Pinker is a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. A widely celebrated academician...

Jan 4, 2019
9 min

Limelight | The Gopal Subramanium Interview: The law is being controlled by politics whereas the law

Mr. Gopal Subramanium is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India. After completing a degree in law from the University of Delhi,...

Aug 30, 2018
7 min

Limelight | Avinash Dixit: The rest of WTO should expel the U.S. and preserve order among the remain

An economist of the highest pedigree, Prof. Avinash Dixit is currently the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics at...

Jul 10, 2018
57 min

Limelight | Anand Jayprakash Vaidya: When I was looking up philosophy, and was transfixed by it

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya was born in Chicago. However, he spent most of his youth in Saudi Arabia. During his stay there he spent a lot of...

Jun 5, 2018
6 min

Limelight | Johanna Thoma: The main point of philosophy is to get people to think better – In

Johanna Thoma is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics....

May 12, 2018
2 min

Limelight | Prateek Kuhad: “The role of the artist is to move people” – In Convers

Prateek Kuhad is a Delhi based singer-songwriter. After releasing his single ‘Raat Raazi’ in early 2013 to wide appreciation, Prateek has...

Apr 2, 2018
10 min

Limelight | Noam Chomsky: AADHAAR could be used in totally unacceptable ways

Professor Noam Chomsky is a pioneering linguist, philosopher, social critic and political activist. The author of multiple highly cited...