Khyeltam འཁྱལ་གཏམ།

What is liberalism? Historically what did the giants of (British) liberal thought has to say on their imperial project? No prize for guessing—most supported the imperial project!

Is this simply the case of liberal hypocrisy, and therefore the problem lies in the selective application of the otherwise perfect and universal ideals? Or is there more to the liberal ideology that requires fundamental rethinking? For more such discussion, tune in to this episode of Khyeltam on “Liberalism and Empire.”

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: Ytimg

Jamyang and I discuss the ongoing issue of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC)

Image: The New Indian Express

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

With our new guest discussant Thinley Wangchuk.

A not-so-short introduction to Amartya Sen's theory of Justice: A Capability Approach

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Illustration: Unnikrishnan

Ugyan and I discuss Sontag's famous essay 'In Plato's cave' from her book On Photography.

Link to the essay: http://sites.uci.edu/01807w14/files/2014/02/SontagSusan_InPlatosCave.pdf

Link to Teju Cole's essay: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/magazine/a-too-perfect-picture.html

Image: Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, February 1, 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

A short episode on the strange world of quantum physics where light and matter sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles and where experimental cats are described as being both dead and alive at the same time!

ལེ་ཚན་འདིའི་ནང་དངོས་ཁམས་ཚན་རིག་གི་ཡ་མཚན་དགོས་པའི་གནད་འགའ་ཞིག་ག྄ླེང་ཡོད། དཔེར་ན། འོད་དེ་སྐབས་རེ་ར྄ླབས་ཀ྄ྱི་རང་བཞིན་དང་སྐབས་རེ་ཟེགས་མའི་རང་བཞིན་ཡིན་པ། ད་དུང་ཡང་ཤི་གསོན་གཉིས་ཀར་ཡིན་པའི་ཞི་མི་སོགས་ཡོད།

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: 'Schrodinger's cat'

Another discussion with Gendun Gyatso on "Social Memory"

སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་དྲན་པ་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་ལྷན་དུ།

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: Tsenpo Trisong Deutsen, the 38th King of Tibetan Empire (755-797/804)

བཙན་པོ་ཁྲི་སྲོང་ལྡེ་བཙན། བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་རབས་༣༨་པ། (༧༥༥-༧༩༧/༨༠༤)

A discussion with Gendun Gyatso on Ashis Nandy’s “Evaluating Utopias” Mazingira, 1979.

རྫོགས་ལྡན་གླིང་གི་ལྟ་གྲུབ་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་དགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་ལྷན་དུ།

Link to the article:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pCD1z_8zu3fCkSfxqPWtpawZIwkn0tTg/view?usp=sharing

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: Ashis Nandy

A discussion with Kaysang and Pelyoun on Gender and Intersectionality

སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་མཚན་མའི་དབྱེ་བ་འམ་རྟགས་ཀྱི་དབྱེ་བ་དང་སྣོལ་མཚམས་ཀྱི་ལྟ་ཕྱོགས་ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་བསྟན་འཛིན་བསྐལ་བཟང་དང་བསྟྟན་འཛིན་དཔལ་ཡོན་ལྷན་དུ།

Reading: Deborah King's "Multiple jeopardy, multiple consciousness: The context of a Black feminist ideology" (1988). Link to the article https://diversedynamics.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/deborah-king.pdf

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: Deborah K. King

A discussion with Tenzin Yewong on Pema Tseden's The Silent Holy Stones (2005) and The Search (2009).

པདྨ་ཚེ་བརྟན་གྱི་གློག་བརྙན་༼ལྷིང་འཇགས་ཀྱི་མ་ནི་རྡོ་འབུམ།༽དང་༼འཚོལ།༽ཐོག་བགྲོ་གླེང་བསྟན་འཛིན་ཡིད་འོང་དང་ལྷན་དུ།

Intro/Outro theme: Karachal - Alash Ensemble (freemusicarchive.org/music/Alash_Ensemble/)

Image: A still from 'The Silent Holy Stones'