Namaskar everyone.
An old recording you may find interesting.🙏🙏
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Excellent discussion featuring Shivakumar GV INDICA and Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 moderated by Abhinav Agarwal at the Pondy Lit Fest on the subject of Resurgent Indic Narratives. Worth watching.

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An insightful and sharp conversation between Ajit Datta, Anand Ranganathan and Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

With the 2024 elections approaching, this is something you need to watch to understand why the Modi-led BJP is poised for a bigger national victory.

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Resurgent Indic Narratives

This discussion between Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳 , Abhinav Agarwal , Shivakumar GV INDICA
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At the Pondy Lit Fest recently with friends (L-R) Monika Halan 🇮🇳, Rahul Shivshankar, Abhijit Majumder & Deep Halder.

My lecture at the recently concluded@PondyLitFest on Veer Savarkar and the early revolutionary movement in India.
Alo Pal Ajit Datta Partha Hariharan

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The number of idiots in power in NATO countries is growing.

One newly minted moron, the British Secretary of State for Defence, decided to move the UK military training of Ukrainian soldiers into Ukraine. That is, to turn the British military instructors into our Armed Forces’…

A phenomenal lecture by Swapan Dasgupta, titled 'The Past as Present: Battles Over History ' at #PLF2023 . Do watch.

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#PLF2023 had an interesting discussion about wherever India was witnessing 'Amrit Kaal'. The participants included author Monika Halan 🇮🇳, economist Prasenjit K. Basu, Professor Gautam R. Desiraju🇮🇳 and VHP Vice President @Ashok Chowgule. Do watch!

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India's Neighbours: Looking East

In this session of #PLF2023 , Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Sandeep, Deep Halder and Srikant Kesnur examined several issues with regards to India's eastern neighborhood.

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It was a pleasure & honour to share stage with Dr Meenakshi Jain ji on the sidelines of Pondy Lit Fest for an interesting conversation with Alo Pal on our history writing & the way forward; stop whining & find solutions. Gave a glimpse of a private initiative that I intend to…

#PLF2023 had a fascinating session on India's Soft Power. Moderated by Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, the session had stalwarts Swapan Dasgupta and Lalitha Kumaramangalam-மொடியின் குடும்பம் as the other speakers. Don't miss!

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I enjoy talking to Alo Pal but this sideline interview was special.

Questions were direct and meaningful.
Do check it out 😊

An interesting discussion from #PLF2023 , titled 'History, Narratives and Research'. Moderated by author Nandini Sen Gupta, the other participants included archaeologist Disha Ahluwalia, historian Prasenjit K. Basu and author Vijayalakshmi Vijaykumar. Watch.

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A scintillating discussion on 'what ails the media', titled 'Breaking news into pieces', took place at #PLF2023 . Moderated by Deep Halder, the participants were senior journalists Rahul Shivshankar, Shiv Aroor, Monika Halan 🇮🇳 and Abhijit Majumder. Don't miss!

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Luc Venet's book 'The Never Dying Fire' published by BluOne Ink was launched at #PLF2023 . This was followed by a discussion between Rakhal Venet and Devdip Ganguli.

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Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion. Thanks Pondy Lit Fest for choosing this topic!

Archaeologist Disha Ahluwalia spoke to Alo Pal on the sidelines of #PLF2023 . Don't miss!

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On the sidelines of #PLF2023 , Alo Pal interviewed scientist Aloke Kumar. Watch.

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One of the super enlightening sessions of #PLF2023 was a discussion on Indian Knowledge Systems and how civilisation is perpetuated, between 𝕾𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖆𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆 𝕸 संस्कृतं मम जीवनम्, 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝙱𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚔𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚗𝚊 and prafulla ketkar 🇮🇳.

Watch:
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