Graduate And Professional

Established in 2008, the Yale Hindi Debate is a platform for Hindi speakers — be they native, heritage, or non-native non-heritage students— to wrestle with current issues of profound importance. With topics ranging from social norms to political reforms, the Yale Hindi Debate has a 14-year legacy of excellence in the realm of Hindi language scholarship and discourse. The topic for the 14th Yale Hindi Debate will be: “अंतरिक्ष के बजाय हमें धरती पर रहना चाहिए ” // “ Rather than space, we should remain on Earth. ”

SASC Special Lecture: India Before Modi How the BJP Came to Power
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making, and this book provides the backstory. It begins with the creation of Hindu nationalism, moves on to the 1980 formation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and ends with its first national administration, from 1998 to 2004. By revisiting these events, we can trace the Modi government’s current dominance of Indian politics all the way back to its origins.

South Asian Studies Council Colloquium Series: Book Panel: Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism: India, Pakistan, and Turkey.
A book panel discussion with Co-editors: Karen Barkey (Bard College), Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia University), and Vatsal Naresh (Yale University)
Discussants: Sohaib Khan (Yale Law School), Marjan Wardaki (Yale University)
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC331

SASC Colloquium Series: The Indian First Election, 1951-52
The paper explores the ways women related to and appropriated the notion of popular authorization of the government in the run-up to, and during India’s first elections. It, thus, aims to shed light on the role of women in democratic state-building during the early days of the republic.
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC421
The event is hybrid, Zoom with limited Yale-only in-person access.

SASC Colloquium Series: Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism, Mircea Raianu
Zoom link: https://cutt.ly/SASC310