In this episode of Talking Frontiers we speak with senior journalist and Dean of JSJC Professor Kishalay Bhattacharjee about his new book Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan, 2023). We also get insights into his long career as a journalist working in the North East of India.

In this episode of Talking Frontiers we speak with senior journalist and Dean of JSJC Professor Kishalay Bhattacharjee about his new book Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan, 2023). We also get insights into his long career as a journalist working in the North East of India.

Guest: Dean Kishalay Bhattacharya - Reporting the Margins

Talking frontiers aims to create conversations, exchange ideas, and stories by showcasing the rich and proliferating scholarship on North East India and the erstwhile colonial north eastern frontiers of British India. Geographically this frontier included not only the seven states that make up north east of India but also parts of present day Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The region was part of global networks with dynamic precolonial trade and commerce, and monastic orders. The podcast brings into the fore historical and contemporary revelations about frontiers for academics, students, and the public. We will explore historical narratives, oral traditions, cultural articulations, and fictional representations of spaces understood as frontiers, borderlands, fringes, and margins. Talking Frontiers will introduce listeners to the north east of India through interviews with historians, writers, folklorists, and journalists. It is crucial to juxtapose written histories and written text with oral histories and sources, to ask critical questions about which narratives are more dominant and why.The first series focuses on North East India and is supported by the Centre for Research in History at O.P.Jindal Global University.The series is produced by Reeju Ray with the support of Radio JSJC, Siddhartha Pillay and Tushar Singh students of Jindal School of Journalism and Communication. Cover Art by Tarun BhartiyaInstagram: @talking_frontiersTwitter: @reejuray4

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Talking frontiers aims to create conversations, exchange ideas, and stories by showcasing the rich and proliferating scholarship on North East India and the erstwhile colonial north eastern frontiers of British India. Geographically this frontier included not only the seven states that make up north east of India but also parts of present day Bangladesh, and Myanmar. The region was part of global networks with dynamic precolonial trade and commerce, and monastic orders. The podcast brings into the fore historical and contemporary revelations about frontiers for academics, students, and the public. We will explore historical narratives, oral traditions, cultural articulations, and fictional representations of spaces understood as frontiers, borderlands, fringes, and margins. Talking Frontiers will introduce listeners to the north east of India through interviews with historians, writers, folklorists, and journalists. It is crucial to juxtapose written histories and written text with oral histories and sources, to ask critical questions about which narratives are more dominant and why. The first series focuses on North East India and is supported by the Centre for Research in History at O.P.Jindal Global University. The series is produced by Reeju Ray with the support of Radio JSJC, Siddhartha Pillay and Tushar Singh students of Jindal School of Journalism and Communication. Cover Art by Tarun Bhartiya Instagram: @talking_frontiers Twitter: @reejuray4

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