Ignition

20 December 2023

Justice Madan Lokur on promises & fractures of democracy

Former Supreme Court judge JUSTICE MADAN LOKUR on India’s promises of freedom, justice, and equality. From bulldozers to bubbles, how vigilantly are we living by them?

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4 October 2023

Musician Shubha Mudgal explores the musical maps of India

Watch mastero singer SHUBHA MUDGAL on a mesmerising song yatra across India, that is Bharat. Evidence that India - or Bharat - is a unique “collaboration of civilisations”. Not a denial of any.

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4 October 2023

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta on the psyche of Indian scamsters

A fascinating window: the psyche & sociology of scams in India. After Scam 1992, hit director HANSAL MEHTA is out with Scam 2003 the story of Abdul Telgi.

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31 August 2023

Lawyers J Sai Deepak & Saurabh Kirpal argue same-sex marriage

Two high profile Supreme Court lawyers debate a crucial question: who has the right to change a society’s norms? Governments or courts? Can societies claim red lines on how we eat, pray, love?

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31 August 2023

Photographer Rohit Chawla on people, places and prisoners of hair

From the politics of hair & women resisting the most fundamental of imprisonments to pictures of the mighty & the maverick. Watch star photographer, ROHIT CHAWLA — the first Indian to win the Golden Lion at Cannes — share his arresting body of work.

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31 August 2023

Linguist GN Devy takes us through 12000 years of India

An unprecedented kaleidoscope. Master linguist G. N. DEVY — who’s tracked India’s 780 languages — on his staggering new undertaking – The Indians: Histories of a civilisation.

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30 August 2023

Journalist Neerja Chowdhury gets up close with 6 prime ministers

Rich. Riveting. Rare. A fascinating lens on 6 pivotal leaders who shaped the country. Watch veteran journalist, NEERJA CHOWDHURY dive into her powerful new book – How Prime Ministers Decide.

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3 August 2023

Ghatam player Sumana Chandrashekar on passion, percussion & subversion

It’s rare to think of a music instrument as a clown. An instrument of subversion. Or an act of feminism. For SUMANA CHANDRASEKHAR — ghatam virtuoso, iconoclast, and one of only 10 women players in the world — the ghatam is all three.

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20 June 2023

Art curator Karthik Kalyanramani on potential & perils of Generative AI

For the first time in the history of technological evolution, scientists are asking for their creation to be regulated. What is at stake? 300 million jobs? The key to human consciousness? What is Frankenstein’s fear?

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20 June 2023

Quantum Researcher Urbasi Sinha on Science that alters our reality

This is science that can accelerate computation by 158 million times. It infiltrates systems, maps the human brain, sustains binaries in simultaneity. This is science that will compel a change in paradigm, And collapse all perceptions of reality.

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