BIC TALKS

Deborah Moggach, BAFTA nominated author and script writer, talks to novelist Jaishree Misra on Episode 43 of BIC Talks. This is a part of the #WorldLit series of conversations in collaboration with the Bangalore Literature Festival.

Did you know that Deborah Moggach's book 'These Foolish Things' was based in Bangalore? This was made into the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and became Jaipur's gain!

Deborah talks to Jaishree about this book, its screen adaptation and what it involved to. They also discuss Deborah's screenplay adapting Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' for the 2005 film starring Kiera Knightley, for which Deborah was nominated for a BAFTA. They go on to discuss other successful books like 'Tulip Fever' and 'The Carer' and what it means to be the 'invisible' writer behind successful movies and TV dramas.

Deborah Moggach has written 20 novels, many of which she adapted into TV dramas. She has also written short stories, screenplays and a stage play. Her latest novel, The Carer, was published in 2019. An OBE and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she lives in London and Wales.

Jaishree Misra has written eight novels published by Penguin and HarperCollins, including the best-selling Ancient Promises and Rani. Her most recent book is a light non-fiction account of building a writer's studio by the sea in Kerala. She is currently on a writing sabbatical and on the board of Vahani Scholarships.

For more on science behind the Tulip fever, do listen to Episode #19 of BIC Talks with Pranay Lal: Virus Rhapsody. More BIC Talks episodes from the BIC-BLF #WorldLit series include #29 with Pico Iyer and Samanth Subramaniam, and #24 with Chetan Bhagat.

BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guests

Did you know that Deborah Moggach’s book ‘These Foolish Things’ was based in Bangalore? This was made into the movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and became Jaipur’s gain!

Deborah Moggach, BAFTA nominated author and script writer, talks to novelist Jaishree Misra. They discuss Deborah’s many books and their screen adaptations, as well as her screenplay for the 2005 film ‘Pride and Prejudice’ starring Kiera Knightley. They also discuss what it means to be the ‘invisible’ writer behind

Harish Narasappa and Sarayu Natarajan explore the wide-ranging implications of judicial delays on Indian society, delve into why delayed justice is such a pernicious problem, and talk about how it can be addressed. Sarayu and Harish discuss themes explored in the recent book Justice Frustrated: The Systematic Impact of Delays in India, edited by Shruthi Vidyasagar, Shruthi Naik and Harish Narasappa.

Harish Narasappa is a lawyer and co-founder of Daksh India, a not-for-profit organisation based in Bangalore. Since 2014, Daksh has been running the Rule of Law project, to evaluate judicial performance and in particular, to study the problem of pendency of cases in the Indian legal system. Harish is also the founding partner of the law firm, Samvad Partners. Harish has extensive experience in advising on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, banking, corporate financing, private equity, projects, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters. He is also a member of the Karnataka Election Watch and National Election Watch.

Sarayu Natarajan is a political scientist with a background in law, and Founder of the Aapti Institute. She also hosts the Ganatantra Podcast on politics in India. She has a PhD in Political Science from King's College London, a Master's in Public Policy from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, and an arts and law degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (NLSIU).

BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

Harish Narasappa and Sarayu Natarajan explore the wide-ranging implications of judicial delays on Indian society, delve into why delayed justice is such a pernicious problem and how it can be addressed. They discuss themes explored in the recent book Justice Frustrated: The Systematic Impact of Delays in India, edited by Harish et al.

Harish is the co-founder of Daksh India and a founding partner of Samvad Partners. Sarayu is the founder of the Aapti Institute and hosts the Ganatantra Podcast.

Anthropologists Veena Das and Maya Ratnam explore what sociology and anthropology can inform us about the ongoing pandemic and crisis and how it affects the everyday lives of people, the nature of the State, and societal reaction to the crisis.

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Before joining Johns Hopkins University in 2000, she taught at the Delhi School of Economics for more than thirty years and also held a joint appointment at the New School for Social Research from 1997- 2000. Veena is passionately interested in the question of how ethnography generates concepts; how we might treat philosophical and literary traditions from India and other regions as generative of theoretical and practical understanding of the world; how to render the texture and contours of everyday life; and the way everyday and the event are joined together in the making of the normal and the critical.

Maya Ratnam is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division of Ahmedabad University. Her training is in Social Anthropology, and her academic areas of focus are the environmental history and anthropology of India, with particular reference to indigenous and resource-dependent communities.

Don't miss jazz singer Radha Thomas from Bangalore and pianist Tomoko Ohno Farnham from New York presenting the love song, Corona Kinda Crazy, at the end of the episode.

BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

Anthropologists Veena Das and Maya Ratnam explore what sociology and anthropology can inform us about the ongoing pandemic and crisis, how it affects the everyday lives of people, the nature of the State, and more.

Veena Das is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, and Maya Ratnam is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division of Ahmedabad University.

Don’t miss jazz singer Radha Thomas and pianist Tomoko Ohno Farnham performing the love song, Corona Kinda Crazy.

Varun Deshpande and Ramya Ramamurthy of the Good Food Institute discuss the future of meat and the viability of plant-based substitutes with researcher and journalist Shailesh Rai.

Varun and Ramya talk to Shailesh about the recent success of the Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods brands in the US, about what makes true meat substitutes work, why they are necessary, and how they can contribute to sustainable food consumption across the world. They dive into the technology, the trends, the culture and conflicts around food, and demystify up and coming food technologies that could fundamentally change what we eat.

Varun Deshpande is the Managing Director, and Ramya Ramamurthy is Communications Specialist, at the Good Food Institute India. They also host the Feeding 10 Billion Podcast, on the IVM Podcasts Network. Shailesh Rai is an independent researcher and journalist based in Bangalore.

BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

Varun Deshpande and Ramya Ramamurthy of the Good Food Institute discuss the future of meat and the viability of plant-based substitutes with researcher and journalist Shailesh Rai.

They talk about the recent success of the Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods brands in the US, about what makes true meat substitutes work, why they are necessary, and how they can contribute to sustainable food consumption across the world.

Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

Priyamvada Gopal talks to Salil Tripathi about her latest book, Insurgent Empire: How rebellious slave colonies changed British attitudes to Empire (2019). Insurgent Empire shows how Britain's enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom.

Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies.

Salil Tripathi is a Bombay-born writer based in New York. He is the author of several books, and his next book is about the Gujaratis. He chairs PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. Salil has been a correspondent in India, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and worked at human rights organisations in London. His journalism has won awards in India and abroad. He writes for Mint and Caravan.

BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

Writers Priyamvada Gopal and Salil Tripathi talk about about Priyamvada’s latest book, Insurgent Empire: How rebellious slave colonies changed British attitudes to Empire (2019).

Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom.