Year of India
Radio Open Source is gathering the threads of modern India in this series; the conversation starts off at Brown’s “Year of India,” then goes on the road from Bangalore to Trivandrum and Delhi.
Real India: Ashis Nandy’s post-colonial "intimate enemies"
Click to listen to Chris’ conversation with Ashis Nandy (32 minutes, 15 mb mp3)
NEW DELHI — Ashis Nandy has a big idea about “loss and recovery” in the history of colonialism. The bumpersticker version is that the conquerors and colonists lose in the end; the vanquished victims win. He is talking, of …
Real India: Namita Gokhale: the revolution will be written!
Real India: The biggest boom in the New India may be the literary explosion -- using digital tech to advance an an old Sanskrit project.
Real India: On the Couch with Sudhir Kakar
Real India: Psychoanalyst and novelist Sudhir Kakar puts India on the couch. Indian culture is not ours, and not what it says it is, either.
Real India: Tarun Tejpal's heart-ache for "the idea of India"
Real India: An esteemed New Delhi magazine editor, Tarun Tejpal, mourns the loss of "the idea of India."
Real India: The BBC's Mark Tully on Poverty and "Tinderwood"
Real India: Mark Tully, the BBC's beloved news voice in New Delhi, says the "New India" is sitting on a tinderbox of poverty.
Real India: Shashi Tharoor, the 'NRI' who came home
Real India: Shashi Tharoor is the global Indian who came home to run for office and win a Cabinet post. Then the fun and the infighting began...
Real India: M. A. Baby and "Kerala Communism"
Real India: In the capital of the most (maybe the only) successful Communist state of the last half-century, Education Minister M. A. Baby credits a century of history in Kerala.
Real India: "I’m the Village Guy"
Real India: An energetic 24-year-old Hindu man and "village guy" explains why he's choosing the Old India after sampling the New.
Real India: Novelist Paul Zacharia Shares His "Confusion"
Real India: Novelist Paul Zacharia shares his "confusion" about the new India.
Real India: Walking the Slum Side of Bangalore
Real India: In one of big slums of Bangalore, public squalor and private affluence are both hallmarks of the New India.
