The Discover India Podcast by Professor Pankaj Jain: Bhārat Darśan

The only way to revive #IndianFilmMusic is to bring back #ClassicalRaagas in our songs! Almost all contemporary music fails to reach anywhere near the heights of #Lagaan (2001) or #DilSe (1998) because #IndianClassicalMusic has vanished in the last two decades. The soul of our music is our immortal Raagas: Bhairav, Bhairvi, Malkauns, Darbari, Malhar, and dozens more! #AamirKhan cites two songs as his inspiration, #OhReTaalMile (Anokhi Raat, 1968) and #TereMereSapne (Guide, 1965): 1st based on Raag #Pilu, 2nd on Raag #Gara! Apparently, his #LaalSinghChaddha team forgot the Raags behind the classics so their music disappoints ultimately! Sharing some examples from @ARRahman Golden Era as a humble reminder of our leading artists' creativity!

#RareRaags in #HindiSongs - Episode 62 - A Series on Popular Music Based on Classical Music with Shri Manoj Govindraj and Professor Pankaj Jain

Gandhi and Gender of Fasting: A Webinar by Prof Vinay Lal (11th episode of The India Studies Series by the India Centre, FLAME University)

Can the tradition of fasting have any relation to the genders at large?  Whenever we think of the tradition of fasting, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi, the modern master of fasting who gained attention through his 15 odd major public fasts. Prof. Vinay Lal of the UCLA in his webinar on “Gandhi and the gender of fasting” discusses how Gandhi’s refusal of being bound by the general and rigid ethics, sociology, and philosophy surrounding the tradition of fasting led to the radicalization and feminization of public sphere.

Series on Popular Music Based on Classical Music - Episode 61. Raag Mala Songs

Postcolonialism and India: 1976 - 2020: A Webinar by Prof Harish Trivedi (10th episode of the India Studies Series by the India Centre, FLAME University)

The formulation and effect of Postcolonialism were widely different in different locations - in the US academy where it began, in the White Commonwealth where it was embraced, and in India where it was resisted. This webinar traces the trajectory from the pre-Postcolonial to the post-Postcolonial. It focuses in particular on four Indian/para-Indian case studies: Phanishwar Nath "Renu", who was one of the first writers to depict post-Independence disillusionment in India, V. S. Naipaul, who sought to break free of the old colonial burden, Salman Rushdie who was the poster-boy of the Postcolonial writers (as distinct from its celebrity theorists), and Taslima Nasreen,  the postcolonial writer virtually brushed under the ideological carpet.  Harish Trivedi, former Professor of English at the University of Delhi, was visiting professor at the universities of Chicago and London. He is the author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India (1993; rpt.1995), and co-editor of Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory, Text and Context (Shimla 1996; rpt. 2000, 2006), Post-colonial Translation: Theory and Practice (1999; several reprints), The Nation and the World: Postcolonial Literary Representations (2007), and Kipling in India: India in Kipling (2021). A festschrift for him was published under the title India and the World: Postcolonialism, Translation and Indian Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Harish Trivedi (2014), edited by Ruth Vanita and with contributions by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Zhang Longxi, Susan Bassnett, David Damrosch, Robert J. C. Young, and David Dabydeen among others.

Hindi Commentary from Pratapgadh Citadel near Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra, India. The castle where Shivaji killed Azam Khan.

Series on Popular Music Based on Classical Music - Episode 60. A Webinar on Raag Chhayanat with Shri Manoj Govindraj

Contribution of Indian Traditional Merchant Communities for Indian Economy: A Webinar by Dr. Thomas Timber (9th Episode of the India Studies Series by the India Centre, FLAME University)

Discussing Uttarakhand's Culture

Gandhi's Sarvodaya: Modern Challenges, Sustainable Solutions: A Webinar by Prof Veena Howard (8th episode of the India Studies Series by The India Centre, FLAME University)

This presentation analyzes various aspects of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s philosophy of Sarvodaya (uplifting of all), which he articulated through a practical constructive program. More precisely, I will focus on how Gandhi sought to mobilize native approaches to addressing the issues of disease, death, racism, economic inequality, and environmental degradation. Various components of Gandhi's Constructive Program offer a path ensuring individual, societal, and environmental health, founded on moral principles.

Speaker:

Veena R. Howard, Ph.D.

Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma

Professor, Department of Philosophy

California State University, Fresno