Colin Deeds - The Border: Binational Problems, Binational Solutions
Historian and anthropologist Carlos Vélez- Ibáñez famously stated that the U.S.-Mexico border is only two grandmothers old. Those grandmothers would recognize many things about the 21st century border, but other aspects would seem as strange to them as the technology, slang, and styles of their gre…
A thorium fuel made for India's nuclear reactors is here. India didn't make it
Seventy years ago, Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear plan built around one idea: that India's future was thorium, not uranium. The science was proven, the reactors were built, and by 1996, India had already demonstrated a thorium fuel cycle at an experimental reactor in Kalpakkam.
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India’s First Computers | Part 2: TIFRAC & IBM’s Double Game
In the mid-1950s, while the world was still reeling from the dawn of the atomic age, a group of visionary scientists in a makeshift barracks in Mumbai were chasing a different kind of power: computational sovereignty. This episode dives into the incredible story of TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundame…
The Language of Survival: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha
In this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Homi Bhabha. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. They discuss professor Bhabha's intellectual iterinary and how distinct sites such as Bombay and Oxford have shaped his co…
The Thorium Gamble: India’s Nuclear Breakthrough
In this episode of Beyond the Indus, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission and one of the principal architects of India’s civilian nuclear program, joins us to discuss the history and future of India’s three-stage nuclear program in the wake of this year’s landmark …
July Rebroadcast: A Conversation With Arundhathi Subramaniam
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In This episode we chat with Arundhathi Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is a leading Indian poet, described as “one of the finest poets writing in India today” (The Hindu, 2010) and “a unique poet of our ti…
S10E9 - Discourse and Domination: Examining Gender and Vulnerability
Episode overview
Episode 9 turns to South and Southeast Asia, bringing together an early-career gender and disaster risk scholar and a senior interdisciplinary disaster governance scientist. Drawing on postcolonial theory, hybridity, and the politics of knowledge production, the episode examines h…
A Composed Archive
Neo Muyanga speaks about how his work as a composer and his research on African idiomatic songs has informed his interest in opera and its various manifestations in South Africa. He shares the process of working as composer and librettist on the recently premiered The Bacchae: An African Choral Bal…
The Case Against Nuclear Power | M. V. Ramana
Nuclear power is having a moment — Big Tech is signing reactor deals, India has promised thousands of megawatts, and small modular reactors are pitched as the future of clean energy. Physicist M. V. Ramana has spent his career examining those promises, and in this conversation he makes the case tha…
1962 A Nation Discovers Itself, Its Hero and Its Other
In Episode 2 of The Hero and the Other, The Neurokrish Immersion explores the transformative decade leading to 1962 a pivotal era as newly independent India forged its national identity. Rising from poverty and partition, the young republic aimed high: from Homi Bhabha’s atomic vision and Vikram Sa…
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