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Lalita du Perron talks to Dr. S.V. Mahadevan, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, and Director of South Asia Outreach at the Center for Asian Health Research and Education and Director of Global Affairs and Strategy at the Stanford School of Medicine about the Covid crisis in India and the world.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Suhaila Meera about her Theater and Performance Studies PhD at Stanford on border-crossing children in art, the emotional challenges of analyzing art which depicts painful histories, and the logistical challenges of producing theater in pandemic times.

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Lalita du Perron talks to Dinsha Mistree, Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Rule of Law Program at Stanford Law about his many projects in India, including the Rule of Non-Law, and how people negotiate traffic regulations.

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Lalita du Perron welcomes Abiya Ahmed, Director of The Markaz Resource Center at Stanford, to discuss her interest in the intersection of religion and education, and her experiences running one of seven Community Centers at Stanford.

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Lalita du Perron discusses mental health in the Muslim community with Dr. Rania Awaad, a practicing Psychiatrist based at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Stanford Muslims and Mental Health Lab where she mentors and oversees multiple lines of research focused on Muslim mental health. Find a list of her publications here.

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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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