Lalita du Perron talks to Jenna Forsyth, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, about lead pollution in Bangladesh and across the globe.

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In this episode Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford undergraduate Vivek Tanna. They start off talking about religion and spirituality, and winding via queerness and comedy end up discussing yoga, Zumba, and cultural appropriation. The tagline for this episode is “When in doubt, shake it out”. Details of the Queerness, Spirituality, and Religion Speaker Series are here: https://orsl.stanford.edu/queerness-spirituality-and-religion-speaker-series.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Alisha Cherian, PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford. Alisha’s research interests include Urban Space and Place, and Power, Identity, and Representation with particular reference to Singapore. In the podcast she talks about Singapore’s quota policy and its effect on the category of “Indian”.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Shorenstein APARC Radhika Jain about health insurance and gender inequalities in accessing health care in India. The phrase to remember? “Mom ‘n’ Pop hospitals”.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Usha Iyer about her new book Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema. In the podcast they discuss courtesans, feminism, the heteropatriarchy, Madhuri Dixit and Saroj Khan, as well as their shared passion for soca.

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Lalita du Perron welcomes Emera Bridger Wilson, Associate Director at the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, at Syracuse University. They discuss the South Asia National Outreach Consortium and the South Asia Book Award, known as SABA. For more information on SABA as well as upcoming talks on November 19 and December 5th, please visit southasiabookaward.wisc.edu.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Munia Bhaumik, 2020-21 Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, about literature, translation, citizenship, aesthetics, politics, and Moby Dick.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Stanford King Center on Global Development Postdoctoral Fellow Nirvikar Jassal about policing in India through the lens of gender – do women-only police stations lead to better access to justice for women?

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This episode Lalita du Perron talks to Arzan Tarapore, South Asia research scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford, about his career in government, security in India-China, and the role of Higher Ed in international relations.

Music credit: Soham Shiva

Visit Arzan’s website at arzantarapore.com.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Padma Maitland, Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at California Polytechnic State University about the politics of museums, regionality, and the upcoming After Hope exhibition at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.