The Coffee House Experience

In this unique episode, we discuss the evolving situation in the unprecedented situation in Bangladesh, with Sharmee Hossain, a Bangladeshi and Soumik Pal, an Indian, both faculties of North South University in Dhaka.

Note: This was recorded on August 10, 2024

Youtube: https://youtu.be/N6LDGIT96p0

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While the festivities around the national election just came to an end, there were many facts that did surprise/puzzle/mesmerize us. For example: amateurs like ourselves were much closer to predicting the accurate outcome (see here: https://youtu.be/fKMHjVM9L50?si=I_tmG_VDaQVDH_AP for our data-based prediction for Bengal) than the poll giants; despite all the social media hype CPIM is yet to open their account in Bengal for the second time in a row; surprise turn around of UP; limitation of political gymnastic appeared to have limitations as manifested in Maharashtra, and many other things.

In this episode we gathered a couple of political observers/commentators, Amitava Gupta, Chief Sub-editor at ABP and Adil Hossain, Faculty (Anthropology) at Azim Premji Univ and had a free-flowing discussion around this uniquely mesmerizing election.

Hosted by: Pratyay Mukherjee and Srinjoy Ganguly

Youtube: https://youtu.be/rij6zyIvRLk

#NoVoteToBJP #SayNoToFascism #Resistance #FilmCollective #CommunityEducation #NoCAANRC #CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #election #Bangla #bengalilanguage #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #PratyayMukherjee #BanglaPodcast #Election2024 #PoliticalAnalysis #CPIM #TMC #BJP #UPResult2024 #AmitavaGupta #AdilHossain

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Like many, Kasturi and Dwaipayan, an independent documentary filmmaker couple, were shell-shocked when the 2019 election results came out, especially by the huge surge in support for right-wing politics in West Bengal. From then on, they dedicated themselves totally to building long-term socio-cultural fronts to resist the neo-fascist right-wing hegemony. Using their forte in documentary film-making, they delved into making a unique documentary, called A Bid for Bengal, which not only captures this unprecedented phenomenon in its current avatar, but explores the deep rooted connection between Bengal and right-wing ideologies in a not-so-distant past. Their objective approach demonstrates how the gory, forgotten communal history of Bengal is being used systematically to achieve certain political goals currently for a desperate electoral conquest.

Hosted by: Mekhla Bhowmick and Pratyay Mukherjee

Links:

- Bid for Bengal can be watched here https://www.watchmyfilm.com/movie/a-bid-for-bengal

- No Vote to BJP Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1787669114743370

- Rokeya Sikkha Kendra Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rokeya.shiksha.kendra

- People’s Film Collective Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective

#NoVoteToBJP #SayNoToFascism #Resistance #FilmCollective # CommunityEducation #NoCAANRC #CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #election #Bangla #bengalilanguage #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #PratyayMukherjee #MekhlaBhowmick #KasturiBasu #DwaipayanBanerjee

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Srinjoy and Pratyay analyze the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal using voting statistics since 2011. The predictions are also informed by qualitative insights such as anecdotal evidence, candidate selection and varied local issues. This is the first endeavour in amateur psephology by the hosts and should only be taken as a quasi-pedagogical exercise. In other words, don't take the prediction too seriously.

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#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #election #Bangla #bengalilanguage #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #election2024 #electioncommission #westbengal #westbengalelectionopinionpoll #westbengalelection2024 #exitpoll2024

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Analyzing ancient DNAs of different populations led to many astonishing discoveries about the past of our species. Unsurprisingly, like other areas, scientific findings through genome analyses collided with conventional wisdoms leading to cultural and political battle. This is especially true for India where a certain political ideology, deeply rooted in conjectured indigenousness, has been gaining strength for the last few decades. While earlier genome studies showed strong evidence (at least partially) refuting such conjecture, a new research on modern genomes of Indian population, and subsequent mapping with ancient genomes bolstered those evidence, in addition to finding new and somewhat surprising connection to Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Hosted by: Pratyay Mukherjee and Srinjoy Ganguly

Youtube: https://youtu.be/TjfY0K4RMVQ

#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #AcademicResearch #Bangla #bengalilanguage #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #IndianGenome #Genetics #OriginOfIndians #PopulationGenectis #UCBerkeley #AryanMigrationTheory

Elise’s webpage: https://ekerdoncuff.github.io/

Priya Moorjani’s lab at UC Berkeley: https://moorjanilab.org/research/

The Wire Article on the paper: https://thewire.in/science/new-study-sheds-light-on-where-indias-people-came-from

The report in Science on the same: https://www.science.org/content/article/where-did-india-s-people-come-massive-genetic-study-reveals-surprises

David Reich’s Lab at Harvard: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/

David Reich’s book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here

Tony Joseph’s book on the early Indians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Indians

A podcast on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_2o_ayXmY

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Analyzing ancient DNAs of different populations led to many astonishing discoveries about the past of our species. Unsurprisingly, like other areas, scientific findings through genome analyses collided with conventional wisdoms leading to cultural and political battle. This is especially true for India where a certain political ideology, deeply rooted in conjectured indigenousness, has been gaining strength for the last few decades. While earlier genome studies showed strong evidence (at least partially) refuting such conjecture, a new research on modern genomes of Indian population, and subsequent mapping with ancient genomes bolstered those evidence, in addition to finding new and somewhat surprising connection to Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Hosted by: Pratyay Mukherjee and Srinjoy Ganguly

Youtube: https://youtu.be/TjfY0K4RMVQ

#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #AcademicResearch #Bangla #bengalilanguage #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #IndianGenome #Genetics #OriginOfIndians #PopulationGenectis

Elise’s webpage: https://ekerdoncuff.github.io/

Priya Moorjani’s lab at UC Berkeley: https://moorjanilab.org/research/

The Wire Article on the paper: https://thewire.in/science/new-study-sheds-light-on-where-indias-people-came-from

The report in Science on the same: https://www.science.org/content/article/where-did-india-s-people-come-massive-genetic-study-reveals-surprises

David Reich’s Lab at Harvard: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/

David Reich’s book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_We_Are_and_How_We_Got_Here

Tony Joseph’s book on the early Indians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Indians

A podcast on the same topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56_2o_ayXmY

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Can we attribute the BJP's rise in West Bengal to the efficacy of their welfare programs? Or is Hindutva and / or PM Modi's personal popularity the key to the party's winning formula in the state? Prof Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) joins us in the latest episode of The Coffee House Experience to discuss all this and much more.

Hosted by Srinjoy Ganguly

Youtube: https://youtu.be/Mll6HUt6qSc

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Ep#17 | Bangla Podcast | A discussion on Communalism in Bengal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0v7ebfl0B0

CHE#45 | Bangla Podcast | Garga Chatterjee | Politics and the Bengali language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KumuxutFeeo

Ep#21 | Bangla Podcast | The Battle of Plassey (1757) ft. Sudeep Chakravarty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6ktjfMrFI

Ep#9 | English Podcast | Janam Mukherjee | Bengal Famine (1943): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5L35Aag4s

Ep#15 | Bangla Podcast | Maitreesh Ghatak | Universal Basic Income: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63EP6hCw1bU

Ep#3 | Bangla Podcast | Discussion | Bengal Assembly Election 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fSklQvYEN0

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The Indian Constitution is widely perceived today as a transformative document that sought to ‘educate’ the first citizens of an India, then recently freed from the yoke of colonial rule, about what living in a democracy substantively means. It would be surprising then to note that large parts of the document are essentially re-purposed from the Government of India Act 1935, which was widely reviled as a ‘charter of slavery’ by the very same freedom fighters who deliberated in the Constituent Assembly. So, is it in fact high time that we rewrite our Constitution, which Somnath Lahiri once described as being “framed from the point of view of a police constable”? If so, would it be desirable if the powers that be use this ‘decolonization’ moment to run roughshod over the nation’s foundational principles and align our Fundamental Rights with a majoritarian reimagining of India’s socio-political fabric?

Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, joins us in the latest episode of The Coffee House Experience to discuss his latest book, “The Colonial Constitution”.

Hosted by Srinjoy Ganguly

Youtube: https://youtu.be/NtZtDg-Zk_M

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Is it inevitable that Bangla as a language will eventually be colonized by the Hindi - Hindu - Hindusthan consensus, which is currently ruling the roost in New Delhi? Garga Chatterjee is at his combative best here as he dissects this possibility and declaims the historical antecedents of the present moment.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/KumuxutFeeo

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India's democratic experiment presents an interesting dichotomy. While elections have witnessed high voter participation rates on a sustained basis, Indian citizens are quite vocal in expressing their distrust of their elected representatives in the Parliament. Ronojoy Sen, senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asia Studies at the National University of Singapore, joins us in this episode to help analyse the evolution of the Parliament from an institutional lens. We focus on how the practice of Indian democracy has had a bearing of the Parliament's trajectory since Independence.

#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #RonojoySen #Indiandemocracy #parliament

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