South Asian studies interview with Dr Mukulika Banerjee on Why India Votes?
Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director Designate of LSE’s South Asia Centre, talks to Ian Cook about her most recent book.
Literary Festival 2015: Changing Worlds
What are the foundations of society? Award-winning writers Neel Mukherjee and Elif Shafak look at the underpinnings of cultures and societies in their writings about the country of their origins, India and Turkey, in conversation with journalist Bidisha.
‘Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs’
Listen to Professor Kaushik Basu talk on law and economics, and why he thinks the way it is done in mainstream economics should be changed, with Professors Amartya Sen and Lord Nicholas Stern.
IPA Gearty Grilling: Dr Mukulika Banerjee
Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director Designate of LSE’s South Asia Centre, speaks to Professor Conor Gearty about democracy in India.
IGC video “Taxing Pakistan: How to motivate civil servants”
Salary incentives for tax collectors could significantly increase the amount of taxes raised in Pakistan (produced by Econ Films).
The Book of Gold Leaves: In conversation with Mirza Waheed
Acclaimed novelist Mirza Waheed introduces his new novel The Book of Gold Leaves: a book of piercing lyricism, a story of the impossible choice between personal duty and romantic love.
A Conversation with Professor Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank,author of the bestselling Banker to the Poor and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, speaks to Professor Alnoor Bhimani at an LSE Entrepreneurship event.
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Growth, Policy and Institutions: lessons from the Indian experience
India has achieved remarkable progress over the last two decades, a process in which state institutions and reform has had a crucial role. Dr Ahluwalia reflects on the Indian growth experience to distill his key lessons for growth and development.
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The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World
South Asia scholar T.V. Paul discusses why Pakistan been such a conspicuously weak state in an era when countries across the developing world are experiencing impressive economic growth and building democratic institutions.
Nationalism, internationalism and cosmopolitanism: Some Lessons from Modern Indian History
This lecture deals with four strands of trans-regional political movement in India’s anti-colonial history.
Gender and the Hindu right in India
In the context of India’s 2014 elections in which Narendra Modi was the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, a panel of human rights campaigners and academics discuss the key questions surrounding the issues of gender and the Hindu Right.
Gujarat: Human rights violations, impunity and the Indian general elections
Key questions of human rights and impunity arise in the aftermath of the Gujarat carnage of 2002 and the rise of Narendra Modi as a national leader and politician.
The New Bihar: Rekindling Governance and Development
A panel discussion on Bihar’s economic developments in recent years and future prospects for growth in the state.
Gandhi before India
The life of Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era – yet few know what shaped him in his formative years. Renowned historian and public intellectual, Ramachandra Guha, paints a vivid portrait of a man whose ideas were fundamentally shaped before his return to India in 1915.
Faith and Doubt
LSE’s Alpa Shah discusses the role of doubt in action with regard to India’s Maoist insurgents on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ (21:40 – 25:55).
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, corruption and the turbulent rise of modern India
James Astill speaks about his new book and his encounters with cricketers, fans, businessmen, bookies, Bollywood stars and slum kids.
Huge misses for India in Moscow visit
LSE’s Tomila Lankina is interviewed by Times Now on prospects for improved India-Russia bilateral relations.
‘Your fatwa does not apply here’: The human rights struggle against Muslim fundamentalism
From Pakistani peace activists to Tunisian feminists, from Chechen journalists to Algerian victims of terrorism, Karima Bennoune highlights some of the most overlooked and important contemporary human rights struggles.
Transforming the Economic Lives of the Ultra-poor
LSE’s Robin Burgess and Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lead a discussion on the economic lives of the ultra-poor.
The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World
Khalid Malik, the director of the UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, shares the findings of a new report and highlights the unprecedented speed and scale of the rise of the Global South.
The Thistle and the Drone
Ambassador Akbar Ahmed discusses the adverse effects of the United States’ drone campaign, arguing that they exacerbate the already-broken relationship between central governments and the tribal societies on their periphery.
An Uncertain Glory: The Economic and Social Condition of Modern India
Amartya Sen launches his new book “An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions”, written with Professor Jean Drèze, and argues that rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achievable goal for India.
Sri Lanka and the culture of impunity: Human rights challenges in a post-war and post-conflict environment
Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, Asanga Welikala, and Uvindu Kurukulasuriya explore the pervasive culture of impunity in Sri Lanka, both with regard to past abuses as well as post-war governance.
Revealing Indian Philanthropy
Mrs Rajashree Birla, Mr Dweep Chanana, Dr Ruth Kattumuri, and Mr Gautam Kumar discuss the critical role philanthropy plays in the development of India.
Banker to the Poor: Lifting Millions out of Poverty through Social Business
Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, discusses providing financial and social services to the poorest of the poor.
The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World
Professor Kishore Mahbubani outlines new policies and approaches that will be necessary to govern in an increasingly interconnected and complex global environment.
India: Macroeconomic Challenges, Some Reserve Bank Perspectives
Dr Duvvuri Subbarao, governor of the Reserve Bank of India, reflects on India’s macroeconomic challenges, including the high current account deficit and rate of inflation.
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography
Marking the launch of his new book, Sanjeev Sanyal looks at how India’s history was shaped by its rivers, mountains and cities.
Putting Rights Back Together Again
Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, argues that the indivisibility of human rights is proclaimed as a goal, but the reality is different. Separating civil and political from economic, social and cultural rights could result in losing the battle for both.
Developmental Diasporas in China and India: A reconsideration of conventional capital
Comparisons of China and India’s economic development typically focus on either the nature of state intervention in the economy or the role of foreign direct investment (FDI). But as Professor Kellee Tsai from the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University argues, this ignores a vast network of informal financial flows generated by remittances and ethnic investors residing abroad.
Asia’s Challenges: Ensuring inclusive and green growth
Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank, Rajat Nag, calls for a new focus on the quality of growth, rather than the quantity of growth.
Achieving your Dreams
Entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal discusses the lessons learned in his experiences on how people can achieve their dreams.
What does home mean to us? (BBC World Service: The Forum)
How have globalisation and technology changed what home means for us? Urban housing and poverty specialist and Lecturer at LSE’s Department of Social Policy Dr Sunil Kumar looks at how a vision of twenty-first century cities without slums has created a difficult balance between home and the workplace for people in the developing world.
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
Pankaj Mishra encourages listeners to see foreign imperialism anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed Europe and Asia in the nineteenth century, and through their thoughts and writings to understand how India, China and the Muslim World are remaking the world we know-in their own image, not that of the West.
The Emerging Left in the ‘Emerging’ World
Dynamic left movements are going beyond traditional socialist paradigms to incorporate ecological constraints as well as the demands of women, ethnic minorities, tribal communities and other marginalised groups.
Visible Cities: International Media Portrayals of Cities in the Global South
How does international media invite us to ‘see’ cities?
Indian Democracy’s Ferocious Faultlines
Indian democracy has an underside, as visible in, among other things, the insurgencies in Kashmir, the Maoist rebellion in the heart of India, growing inequalities between rich and poor and massively high rates of corruption.
The ‘Art’ of Relating Cultures with Reshma Ruia
What role do plot, character development and narrative voice play in writing about different cultures?
Sport and the Nation: Interpreting Indian History through the Lens of Cricket
Dr Ramachandra Guha explains how cricket became an Indian obsession.
A Moment of Mishearing
A conversation between award-winning Indian wrtier and musician Amit Chaudhuri and former Granta and Independent on Sunday editor Ian Jack.
Modernity’s Contents and Discontents in India and Pakistan
Patrick French, Reshma Ruia and Kamila Shamsie compare the political, social and economic trajectories of India and Pakistan since independence through the lenses of the social sciences and literature.