ANOTHER INDIA
Another India kicks off at the University of Warwick for 2015. This year's programme of events on campus --as well as in Delhi and Mumbai-- brings the Warwick community together with contemporary India's 'changemakers with a difference’. In all the talk of India's recent corporate and political successes, we often lose sight of the fact that many of the most innovative and impactful interventions in public life of the country begin and circulate outside official corporate or policy spheres – in India’s dynamic non-state -activist - arts-academic interface. Another India is built around a dialogue between some of the most high-profile leaders of these sectors in India with members of the Warwick community. Another India showcases the University of Warwick’s commitment to innovative global inquiry.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Agenda for Equality: the possibilities and limits of affirmative action (Warwick, May 2016)
2015/2016 PROGRAMME
Times of The Nation: Being ‘Anti-National’ In Contemporary India
Ramphal Building – R0.03, Thursday, 17th March, 5.15-7.30 pm
The ‘nation’ is back with a vengeance in Indian public life. Headhunting those who refuse to comply with its normative vision of a majoritarian and homogenised national culture. This event would engage with the politics of being and becoming 'anti-national' in contemporary India - how, when and what this process envisage. We hope to explore and interrogate the close complicity of the ‘national’ consensus deployed as it is through courts of law, development discourses, and an authoritarian state riddled with cartographic anxieties. By linking it to the burgeoning student movement in India - evidenced by recent outbursts at several institutions of higher education - at Hyderabad, Madras, Calcutta, New Delhi and elsewhere, the panel would deliberate on the instrumental role of public universities in fostering substantive interventions in critically influencing public discourses.
India: No Country for Beef?
Monday / 1 February 2016 / IAS Seminar Room / Millburn House (F204) / 12-2pm
Documentary screening ('Caste on the Menu Card' 2015, 20 min.) & panel discussion on the politics of beef bans in India.
Followed by buffet lunch
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TISS-Mumbai, 10-12 December 2015
Tuesday 27 October, 3PM - Film Screening
AN ORDINARY ELECTION - A Film by Lalit Vachani
3PM Social Sciences Building SO.19
The director and co-producer will be present for a question-and- answer session following the screening
Delhi, August - December 2013. A new politics of hope and change flickers in the world's largest democracy, as a rank outsider makes an audacious bid for political power. A tiny new political party prepares to take on the mighty political establishment in the capital city: the Aam Aadmi Party, the party of the Common Man. Like its counterparts from Greece to Spain, this anti-establishment party promises to vanquish political corruption and bring power back to ordinary people. An Ordinary Election is the story of the battle for Indian democracy from up-close: an intimate ground-up perspective of the anxieties, ambitions, struggles, and intrigues from the electoral battleground itself.
For more info: Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk
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Law by Other Means: Picturing Law, Politics and Justice
Book Launch: The Grammar of Politics and Performance
Spaces of Caste in India and the UK: Persistence and Resistance
ACADEMIC LEADS
Dr Sarah Hodges (History) and Professor Shirin Rai (PAIS)
