by Talking Humanities | Aug 26, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished
Nilakshi Srivastava, a student at the National Law Institute University in Bhopal investigates India’s domestic violence statistics, which have risen during the Covid-19 lockdown. It is a known fact that in India women are at the lowest rung of the patriarchal,...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Interviews, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tripurdaman Singh, who holds a British Academy Fellowship at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, has just published his new book Sixteen Stormy Days, exploring one of the pivotal events in Indian political history. As India marks the 70th anniversary of the...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 30, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Over the past four years, in particular, London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) has mounted a series of exhibitions underlining the extraordinary contribution by the man (and woman) power from across the empire to the global British war effort in World War I. As the IMW...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 31, 2017 | Features, Human Rights, Languages & Literature
Rahul Ranjan, a PhD student at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, remembers the late Bengali writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi, who was known for her sharp satires of gender inequality in India. As a writer and social activist, Mahasweta Devi, who was born...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 27, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
India completes its seventh decade as an independent nation on 15 August. Assessing its recent history is no simple matter explains James Manor, Emeritus Professor of Commonwealth Studies and expert on Indian politics. This is the most complex society and polity on...
