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Avinash is a Reader in International Relations. Previously, he was the deputy director of the SOAS South Asia Institute, taught Defence Studies at King’s College London, and was the Defence Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s.


2:45 What has been the biggest point the general public missed around the Canada crisis?
8:25 How to deal with New India?
27:45 Why Khalistan issue has not got enough steam in the Western Sphere?
36:25 Is this issue big enough?
41:45 What is the end point of this crisis?
45:45 Is the Khalistani movement a response to Hindutva?
47:35 Assuming India did it, why was this not a clean operation?
55:15 Is R&AW on high alert?

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Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips, a Specialist in Hepatology and Liver Transplant Medicine, did his MD in Internal Medicine from Nilratan Sircar Medical College, Kolkatta and DM in Hepatology & Liver Transplant Medicine from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi.He was awarded the Gold Medal for Academic Excellence in Hepatology by the honourable President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, during the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences Convocation and Foundation Day Ceremony held on 14th of January 2016 at New Delhi and won the prestigious American Association for Study of Liver Disease Award consecutively in the year 2015, 2016 and 2017 and was given Honorary Trainee Membership to The American Association for Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) at San Francisco, November 2015.



3:00 Welcome, Dr Abby Philips
07:50 Family support Abby received
17:50 Privatisation of healthcare in India
33:20 The latest research by Abby
45:30 History of Homeopathy
01:04:10 Is Ayurveda beating Homeopathy?
1:08:00 Is banning Homeopathy important?
1:26:30 The tall claims of Homeopathy?
1:37:10 Dilemmas of patient families
1:54:40 Ageism in the Indian Healthcare
1:58:30 Ayurveda - The elephant in the room
2:11:00 Any research on cow urine?
2:25:00 The impact of alcohol on the Liver

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Naveen Koomar is an Indian rap artist soon moving to Mumbai from Delhi. He has released many hit tracks like Baarishein, Kho Gaya, Dilli-18, Jalwe and many more.
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2:15
Understanding Naveen’s journey
26:40
How did Naveen meet his better half?
37:15
Is there a deep emotion in art?
45:35
Jab tak hum Zinda hai. Naveen’s alternative hip-hop
61:30
Battling that desire to be famous
1:10:45
What does it take to be a lyricist?
1:16:25
How can a budding artist start Rapping?
1:22:15
Indian music industry and its gatekeepers

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Dipa Sinha has done her MA in Economics from JNU, MSc in Development Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London and Ph.d from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked on issues related to food rights, nutrition and public health.

3:10 Understanding Dipa’s journey
5:40 What is right to food?
8:25 How do we measure hunger?
11:00 How is India’s progress in this area?
16:05 State intervention in this area
18:40 Role of Union and State Government
20:55 Malnourishment basis groups
24:50 How do different governments approach this issue?
37:25 The impact on women
50:25 The biggest battle that India is fighting when it comes to public health
1:05:10 The fragmented model of public health in India
1:06:50 Aam Admi Party’s model of governance
1:08:10 Health outcomes in North vs South

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Shashi Ashish Choudhary (they/them/they) is queer Bahujan poet and designer currently based in Chennai.

Show Notes

04:00
Welcoming Shashi

08:00
Shashi asks questions to Vandit

28:00
Shashi’s life history, Jatt identity and other things

1:03:50
Shashi’s affiliation with Army

1:20:50
Bahujan identity and its politics

1:34:00
Caste in town planning and urban design

2:00:00
Culturally how is Chennai

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Mamidipudi Ramakrishna Sharan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Sharan's research centres around questions in development economics and political economy.

Last Among Equals https://www.amazon.in/Last-Among-Equals-Politics-Villages/dp/9390679664

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3:00
Sharan’s journey
10:15
Difference between north and south villages
13:50
When did Sharan have his cast realization?
17:20
When Sharan reached Bihar and the story behind Last Among Equals?
26:30
Any stereotypes on Bihar you carried?
28:50
How will you define a village in Bihar?
38:50
The politics of the village
43:00
Reaching Muzaffarpur
49:50
The story of Sanjay Sahini
61:50
The role of civil society in such movements?
1:04:00
The corruption in NREGA
1:10:00
Sanjay’s support system in the Sangathan
1:13:10
Thoughts on NREGA?
1:25:20
Sharan’s meeting with the Mukhiya
1:29:30
How Sanjay Sahini challenges the system?
1:48:00
The Musahar Wedding
1:58:55
Meeting Prashant Kishor
2:03:00
The following steps for Sanjay Sahini
2:07:00
Public grievances system in Bihar
2:12:00
Nitish vs Lalu
2:17:00
The time when Sanjay Sahini decides to file an MLA nomination
2:49:20
The Big Indian State

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Rehna Ravindran is an Assistant Professor, at the University of Delhi. She completed her Ph.D. from JNU, New Delhi. She extensively writes on issues related to caste, gender, and politics.

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3:00
Welcome Dr. Rehna

11:00
How the caste question never came in Kerala?

16:40
What is the fundamental difference between Right and Left?

30:30
Is the Left movement progressive on the question of Gender?

51:45
Key differences between southern and northern states?

1:03:30
The caste assertion of north vs south

1:08:30
Being anti Anti caste vs Anti Brahmin

1:22:30
Thoughts on BHIM Army

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About Shalin

Shalin is an activist, Intersectional feminist, writer, and orator.
Shain has published two books in Tamil, in the year 2018 “Vadachennaikari “ (Feminist take on subaltern history and culture) and “Jency en Kuraivaaga paadinaar “(Feminist Take on cinema). Shalin is a regular writer in popular Tamil magazines and portals on social issues, especially feminism and caste.


Timestamps

2:45
Introducing Shalin

9:05
What does it mean to be free?

13:45
How did your relationship change since the time you started taking such a bold stance?

17:00
Be a feminist and be alone or be less feminist and not so alone

19:10
Marriages where men are feminist and the woman is not

27:45
Can men be feminists?

35:10
Problems with Tamil cinema

43:45
Pa Ranjith

55:15
The political climate of Tamil Nadu

1:06:15
Is Tamil Nadu politics ideological?

1:16:15
Is Brahminism defeated in Tamil Nadu?

Show Notes

Vadachennaikari “ (Feminist take on subaltern history and culture)

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07RLJJQPZ/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_VKCAR94M1CB0WY0GCFT9

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Subhajit Naskar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at Jadavpur University. He has completed an integrated MPhil/Ph.D. from the Centre for South Asian Studies of the School of International Studies (SIS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Hyderabad. He is focusing his research on Caste embeddedness in bhadralok Culture of Bengali Society, Religion and Moral questions, Upper Casteness, Untouchability, Critical race theory, and Intersectionality.


3:10
Subhajit’s life story

16:20
Understanding the reality of Bengal

25:50
Refugee of Bengal

36:25
Jyoti Basu

46:05
Voting patterns of the marginalized section

59:20
Anti-Caste Movement in India

Marichjhapi massacre
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Aashish Gupta - https://twitter.com/aashishg_
Payal Hathi - https://twitter.com/aashishg_
Aditi Priya - https://twitter.com/aditipriya_0301

Guest Profile
Aashish Gupta is a demographer. He holds a Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in development studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Payal is a PhD student in Demography and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Fellow at r.i.c.e. Her research interests center on social inequality and health.

Aditi Priya is the founder of Bahujan Economists and is an upcoming graduate student at Brown University.


Timestamps

3:30
Life journey of Aashish and Payal

16:15
Some eye-opening incidents

20:10
Research and challenges in explaining the work they do to friends & fa

32:53
Summarizing the sanitization work and is it connected to life expectancy.

42:45
Presence of caste in the indicators and other religions.

50:30
Sanitation workers and their struggles. The situation in government hospitals

1:00:10
Understanding the research on life expectancy

1:18:00
Hypothesis on why life expectancy is low in Dalits and Adivasis

1:38:00
Changes in life expectancy in each state

1:43:20
Response from academia

Important Links

Joothan -https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Joothan/0i5TtbXz36IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Annihilation of Caste
https://www.amazon.in/Annihilation-Caste-B-R-Ambedkar/dp/9391523390/ref=asc_df_9391523390/?tag=googleshopdes-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=545019405814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9892539633617798177&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007765&hvtargid=pla-1570789976633&psc=1

Gender and caste inequality, and their role in persistence of environmental health harms
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X21002977
https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/1/review-rural-affairs/understanding-open-defecation-rural-india.html

Why a Dangerous Lack of Hygiene Persists in Government Hospitals
https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/16/special-articles/caste-prejudice-and-infection.html
For a Bahujan Economics
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/bahujan-economics
Some Key findings by Aashish, Payal, and Aditi
https://twitter.com/aashishg_/status/1511528299079553024