All Episodes

Collectives, sustainable agriculture, gender, and indigeneity: a conversation with recently awarded PhD Alexa Russo

Women’s work, the beauty industry, and gig work in Mumbai

The Monster in your Path: The Private Life of Caste in India

The Psychic Lives of Statues

Data analytics, financial education, and being a Stanford alum!

Duniya Dance and Drum, and Ghadar Geet

Kashmir, Northern Ireland, literature, and the law

The open prison, community, and family in India

The Ustad Mahwash Archive at Stanford Libraries

Law, science, technology, and AI

Moorings: Indian Ocean voyages, labor, and fieldwork

From pre-doc to start-up: hard work, serendipity, and potential

Finance, debt, and artistic entrepreneurship

Technological transformations and job losses in the textile mills of Mumbai

Dance, consent, and nostalgia as method

Identity, Empire, and the Revolution

Part 2 - Wisdom, kindness, and designing your life

Part 1 - Wisdom, kindness, and designing your life

Dance and Healthy Aging

Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan

Shandana Waheed on Rawalpindi, the politics of heritage, and hostile histories

Mental Health in the South Asian community and beyond

Journalism in the Time of Authoritarianism and Big Tech

The anti-blasphemy movement in Pakistan

Kalpana Desai and SACHI

History and Context of Student Protests in Bangladesh – with Stanford Students Zarif and Arwa

SALA part 2: the 2024 festival, Sept 28-29

Indo Pak Dosti Forum: Luv and Aimen

South Asian Literature and Arts Festival with Ambika Sahay

Women’s education in Afghanistan

Ambika Vishwanath of Kubernein Initiative

On being Hindu, a multi-faith chaplain, and taking care of oneself and others

Paternalistic discrimination and gender inequality

Gender norms, women’s work, and digital jobs

Cooperatives, Caste, and Political Economy in Maharashtra

Noopur, Raagapella, and Bhangra: meet the student groups!

Care, Kinship, & Cognitive Disability in India

Habib University and the importance of liberal arts education

Home in the Field in Rajasthan

Environmental history and temporality in South Asia

Periyar: authority, caste, and women’s rights

Transnational Tibetan Buddhism, Performing Identity, and the 84,000 Project

Robert Rakove, Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan before the Soviet Invasion

Gowri Shankar, Protecting King Cobras

Rabia Saeed: The power of writing, serendipity, and luck

Isabel Salovaara, Tuition and coaching in Patna

Aidan Milliff, How people respond to violence

Shripad “Tulja” Tuljapurkar, Travels and the chili pepper

Gulika Reddy, Teaching as Advocacy

Elspeth Iralu, Indigenous Mapping and Identity

Nasiruddin Nezaami, Stanford after Afghanistan

Max Bruce: South Asia, Urdu, and Shibli Nomani

Halima Kazem, Stories from Afghanistan

Moogdho Mim Mahzab, Reducing Environmental Pollution in Bangladesh

South Asia in Motion at Stanford University Press

Anuradha Bhasin: Journalism, the Media, and Kashmir

Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste

Chandra Vadhana Radhakrishnan, Gender Equality: activism meets entrepreneurship

Gayatri Sethi: Belonging, unbelonging, and the complexity of identity

Decolonizing collections: South Asia Open Archives

Jonathan Peterson: Vedanta, atheism, and body modification

Shaili Chopra, The power of digital and SheThePeople

What’s going on in Sri Lanka? With Sharika Thiranagama.

Radhika Koul, Conversations in the Humanities

Rushain Abbasi, Secularism and Islam

Roanne Kantor: South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Zeba Huq: Identity, Faith, Law, and Faith in the Law

Charu Singh, Science in the vernacular? A conversation on translation and terminology

Ali Usman Qasmi: The lunar calendar, citizenship, and the state

Anna Bigelow, Islam through Objects

Education, Migration, Translation: a conversation with Lakmali Jayasinghe

Thomas Blom Hansen, The Law of Force

Jisha Menon on her new book, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India

Priya Satia, Time's Monster: How history makes history

Meet Stanford South Asia Minor Students!

Partha Shil, Welcome to Stanford History and CSA

Reflections on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part 2

Reflections on the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Part 1

Hari Seshasayee: From India to Peru, Colombia, and Stanford

Dr. S.V. Mahadevan, Covid in India and beyond: May 2021 updates

Suhaila Meera, Children Crossing Borders in Art

Dinsha Mistree, Rule of Non-Law

Abiya Ahmed, Director of the Markaz

Rania Awaad, Muslims and Mental Health

Jenna Forsyth, Lead pollution in Bangladesh

Vivek Tanna, Junior at Stanford

Alisha Cherian, Race Relations in Singapore

Radhika Jain, Health in India

Usha Iyer, "Dancing Women"

Emera Bridger Wilson/South Asia Book Award

Munia Bhaumik

Nirvikar Jassal

Arzan Tarapore

Padma Maitland

Debak Das

Snehal Naik

Stephen Young

Raghav Mehrotra

Ryan Perkins

Anubha Anushree