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EPISODE · Mar 21, 2025 · 24 MIN

India in the Global Attention Economy

from The Nordic Asia Podcast · host NIAS and its academic partners

What is the global attention economy, and how does this perspective help us make sense of the relationship between India and the Global North? In this episode, we discuss these issues, focusing particularly on the current and oftentimes critical coverage of Indian politics and democracy in the western media. Our guest is Harish Pedaprolu from the University of Oslo’s Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Kenneth Bo Nielsen is a social anthropologist and leader of the Centre for South Asian Democracy at the University of Oslo Harish Pedaprolu is at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo.

What is the global attention economy, and how does this perspective help us make sense of the relationship between India and the Global North? In this episode, we discuss these issues, focusing particularly on the current and oftentimes critical coverage of Indian politics and democracy in the western media. Our guest is Harish Pedaprolu from the University of Oslo’s Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. Kenneth Bo Nielsen is a social anthropologist and leader of the Centre for South Asian Democracy at the University of Oslo Harish Pedaprolu is at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo.

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