<p>Lalita du Perron talks to<a href="https://www.rahulrao.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Rahul Rao </a>about his book The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire (Pluto Press, 2025), the challenges of keeping one’s writing up-to date in a rapidly changing world, and his recent talk at the Stanford Center for South Asia. Learn about Dr. Rao and his work<a href="https://www.rahulrao.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> here.</a></p>

Lalita du Perron talks to Rahul Rao about his book The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire (Pluto Press, 2025), the challenges of keeping one’s writing up-to date in a rapidly changing world, and his recent talk at the Stanford Center for South Asia. Learn about Dr. Rao and his work here.

<p>Lalita du Perron talks to<a href="https://www.rahulrao.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Rahul Rao </a>about his book The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire (Pluto Press, 2025), the challenges of keeping one’s writing up-to date in a rapidly changing world, and his recent talk at the Stanford Center for South Asia. Learn about Dr. Rao and his work<a href="https://www.rahulrao.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer"> here.</a></p>

The Psychic Lives of Statues

The South Asian Studies at Stanford (SASS) Podcast features conversations between the Center for South Asia at Stanford and guests who have a connection to Stanford as faculty, staff, students, or alumni. The podcasts feature a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry to politics, from manuscript collecting to music, from business to Bollywood. Every podcast consists of an informal and informative conversation about South Asia and its meaning in the world, in our lives, and at Stanford.

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