Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUsha Raman and Sumana Kasturi, "Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India" (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)
Episode 301
Children are considered to be a group of special interest by media scholars and advocates, especially because they are seen as a vulnerable group who…
3 years, 3 months ago
Wirsching: Bombay Talkies B-Side
Episode 125
In this episode of High Theory, we continue our conversation with Debashree Mukherjee about the pioneering film studio Bombay Talkies, founded in 193…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bombay Talkies
Episode 124
Debashree Mukherjee talks about the pioneering film studio founded in 1934 in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) by Himansu Rai and Devika Rani. Its cas…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dimitry Shevchenko, "Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self: Mirror of Self: Models of Consciousness in Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita Vedānta" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 273
In Indian philosophical traditions, a reflection in a mirror frequently serves as a metaphor, suggesting that just as a face in a mirror appears wher…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brahma Prakash, "Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India" (LeftWord, 2023)
Episode 198
Brahma Prakash's book Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India (LeftWord, 2023) is an interesting gaze into life, art, …
3 years, 3 months ago
Ajay Gudavarthy, "Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 197
How do emotions mobilise in politics? How do they frame ideologies? Broadly focusing on these questions, Ajay Gudavarthy's book Politics, Ethics and …
3 years, 3 months ago
Roluah Puia, "Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 196
Roluah Puia's book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our unders…
3 years, 3 months ago
Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Episode 195
Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its divisive earlier history rema…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ankur Barua, "Exploring Hindu Philosophy" (Equinox Publishing, 2023)
Episode 270
Ankur Barua's book Exploring Hindu Philosophy (Equinox Publishing, 2023) points to some of the diverse tapestries of Hindu worldviews where scriptura…
3 years, 3 months ago
Anam Zakaria, "1971: A People's History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India" (Vintage Books, 2021)
Episode 194
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's h…
3 years, 3 months ago