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T2M episodes

  • Talking Movies, E2: Bridgerton Season 1

    Wealth, lust, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family landed on Netflix in December 2020 and since has generated a real stir. It has become the show which is breaking all records. 

    This season was all about Daphne and Simon but despite all the love it has been receiving, is it the perfect youth romance meets historical fiction or is there more to it that the grandeur of the production hides?

    12 min
  • Talking Movies, E1: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

    Released on 20th October 1995, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge went on to become the longest in cinema running Hindi movie of all times. It has been 25 years. From its release to date, we, as a society, have evolved. Yet, the romance which DDLJ tries to showcase is considered the epitome and the best kind. Is it really? Have movies changed?

    30 min
  • In Conversation With, E3: Embracing Colonial Legacy
    Since Black Lives Matter gained momentum, there has been a series of activities going on. One of them is the demand to remove statues of people who had racist traits. In this edition of Table Talks (Matter), Neelofar Abu Eusuf talks to Prerana Srimaal, Associate Professor and scholar, about the ongoing situation, the way forward and attempt to review how we shape our past in the present.
    40 min
  • In Conversation With, E2: Uttar Pradesh, Communalism and Secular India

    Paran Amitava talks to Sajjan Kumar about how UP is a model of institutionalized everyday communalism whose defining feature is that rather than initiating major, state-wide riots, the strategy of the BJP–RSS currently is to create and sustain constant, low-key communal tension together with frequent, small, low-intensity incidents out of petty everyday issues that institutionalize communalism at the grassroots.

    1 hr 1 min
  • In Conversation With, E1: Idea of Indian Police

    The debate over the police as an institution and its practices in the United States has captured the attention of people around the world. Surprisingly, this has failed to spark a debate about instances in India of police bias, unfair treatment and brutality, as well as selective persecution of particular communities. To help us understand this better, Paran Amitava talks to Chaitanya Pradeep, Associate Professor of Political Science, who has carried out extensive research on the workings of Indian Police.

    53 min
  • (Bonus) Working of the Police in India: A DW Report
    Police in India is facing criticism for a heavy-handed response to students protesting the new citizenship law. The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a pathway to Indian citizenship for religious minorities from neighbouring countries, with the exception of Muslims. Students at Delhi's Jamia Milia Islamia University, parts of which were ransacked by police, are among many across the country that have joined in protests against the law.
    The vehemence of the protests prompted India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond on Twitter. Modi called the outcry "unfortunate and deeply distressing." He assured people that "no Indian has anything to worry regarding this act."
    (17 December 2019)
    8 min
  • (Bonus) Working of the Police in India: A Brief
    In India, we all know about gratuitous police beatings and custodial deaths and the indifference of politicians to blatant state violence. In recent times, many instances of police violence against citizens have been filmed and circulated. They invoke outrage on social media. Instances similar to the manner in which George Floyd was treated are very familiar in India. Yet the reactions are vastly different here; vicious police brutality, often communal, is not enough to get the same outrage, be it in the political class or the celebrities of the entertainment industry to take a stand. The policeman in India is a law unto himself and for him – constable or officer – beating up people without any fear of being held accountable is a routine matter. No superior is going to question him, no politician is going to call him for an explanation and citizens will also take it in their stride. At times, it is even celebrated.
    13 min

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