I spend a considerable proportion of my days watching webcasts of talks, discussions, interviews and other programmes with an academic twist. I have compiled a list of such programmes or specific talks that I found interesting in this section. You can also find links to documentaries, major sources for great talks (e.g. University Channel) and other resources to keep you occupied forever! Enjoy.
In an Obama-like interview Jaswant Singh deals with a complex and polarizing topic like India-Pakistan partition with sensitivity and statesmanship that is rarely seen in Indian politics.
An effort to build a list of good international news programmes to get news from diverse perspectives
Over the last few years, I have developed an interest in international affairs. Unfortunately, International English news sources were dominated by channels in USA and Britain. BBC and CNN that were available widely had some high quality programmes but [...]
Here’s a news item from the Real news network on India’s refusal to sign the cluster bomb treaty along with China, US (not surprisingly), Israel, Russia and Pakistan.What is shocking though is the paltry coverage it got in Indian media for an issue that is clearly important. ToI, NDTV, Zee News, Economic Times, and [...]
Eisenhover in a memorable speech talked of the danger of the military industrial complex. His warning has sadly been borne out time and again in the decades following the speech. In this context calculations of gain overwhelm concerns for morality in foreign policy. Thankfully, the same decades have also seen an appreciable growth of people’s [...]
Brutal and grotesque punishments deter crime better than an inefficient and corrupt legal system argue many
Brutal punishments are back into public debate in India with the airing of the video below. A boy who had snatched a chain from a woman was caught and brutally punished by a mob – relentlessly. A Policeman joined [...]
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