‘A Suitable Boy’ and other stories, with Mira Nair
6 Jul, 10:00 In the finale of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French talks to the acclaimed director Mira Nair about why she shifted from documentary fi...
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The Evolution of India’s Right Wing, with Swapan Dasgupta
Author Swapan Dasgupta details the history of the Hindu nationalist movement in India, discusses figureheads like Savarkar and Deendayal Upadhyaya and...
The history of the present, with Maya Jasanoff
On the latest episode of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French and renowned Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff explore themes of globalisation, imperialis...
How Indian Democracy works, with Mukulika Banerjee
Patrick French talks to Mukulika Banerjee, the Director of the South Asia Centre at LSE, about why India votes, why the 2019 elections were radically ...
The need for interdisciplinary collaboration, with Simon Goldhill
The Professor of Greek Literature and Culture from Cambridge University joins academician Patrick French to discuss how collaborative, interdisciplina...
With every breath: Why music matters, with Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan
In this episode, Patrick French talks to the wonderful Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan about how their journeys into music started, what they have le...
Conservatism in India, with Shruti Kapila
On this episode of the Stepwell podcast, Patrick French talks to Shruti Kapila, a Historian at Cambridge University, about how Conservatism can be see...
Cotton trade and the emergence of capitalism, with Sven Beckert
Join the historian and author of "Empire of Cotton" in conversation with Patrick French about how cotton trade, slavery and colonialism played a role ...
“Missing” women in Indian Democracy, with Shamika Ravi
The Economist and Director of Research at Brookings India talks about economic growth, factors working against getting more women in Parliament and mu...
The people who are keeping our planet alive, with Jim Skea and Minal Pathak
Can climate change be mitigated? Patrick French talks to climate scientists Jim Skea and Minal Pathak of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...