The Coffee House Experience

by The Coffee House Experience

A Podcast to discuss things pertaining to Bengal and Bengali people. Our informal discussions (a.k.a. Adda in Bengali) are long, topical and largely spontaneous. We mostly talk in Bengali and occasionally in English. The channel is run by three Engineering graduates from Jadavpur University, namely, Pratyay Mukherjee, Srinjoy Ganguly and Soumik Ghosh.

Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • #CHE 45 | Garga Chatterjee | Politics and the Bengali language | Soumik Ghosh | Srinjoy Ganguly

    #CHE 45 | Garga Chatterjee | Politics and the Bengali language | Soumik Ghosh | Srinjoy Ganguly

    Is it inevitable that Bangla as a language will eventually be colonized by the Hindi - Hindu - Hindusthan consensus, which is currently ruling the roost in New Delhi? Garga Chatterjee is at his combative best here as he dissects this possibility and declaims the historical antecedents of the present moment. Youtube: https://youtu.be/KumuxutFeeo #CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #GargaChatterjee #Politics #Bangla #bengalilanguage #banglapokkho #SoumikGhosh #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal --------------------- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexp RSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecoffeehouseexperience/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3P75RSN Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn

  • #CHE 44 | Bangla Podcast | Ronojoy Sen | The Parliament's role in structuring Indian democracy

    #CHE 44 | Bangla Podcast | Ronojoy Sen | The Parliament's role in structuring Indian democracy

    India's democratic experiment presents an interesting dichotomy. While elections have witnessed high voter participation rates on a sustained basis, Indian citizens are quite vocal in expressing their distrust of their elected representatives in the Parliament. Ronojoy Sen, senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asia Studies at the National University of Singapore, joins us in this episode to help analyse the evolution of the Parliament from an institutional lens. We focus on how the practice of Indian democracy has had a bearing of the Parliament's trajectory since Independence. #CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #RonojoySen #Indiandemocracy #parliament --------------------- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexp RSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecoffeehouseexperience/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3P75RSN Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn

  • EP#43 | Bengali Podcast | Dipankar Bhattacharya | Marxism-Leninism In Today’s India

    EP#43 | Bengali Podcast | Dipankar Bhattacharya | Marxism-Leninism In Today’s India

    The Marxism-Leninism (ML) movement in India started in the 1970s with the famous Naxalbari uprising to overthrow the Government and establish a one-party socialist state la China. Later, the movement was divided into several fragments, a number of which attempted to re-interpret the theory of ML in the Indian context, and subsequently joined electoral politics. Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPIML) is a prominent front among them. As a national general secretary, Dipankar Bhattacharya elaborates on the history of the ML movement in India, the evolution from a guerrilla front to a parliamentary force, their ideological interpretation in the Indian context, and finally their recent electoral political strategy, especially as part of the I.N.D.I.A platform. #Marxism #Leninism #INDIA #CPIML #Communism #Socialism #Naxalism Youtube: https://youtu.be/A4pSalBVyds --------------------- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexp RSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecoffeehouseexperience/ Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3P75RSN Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn

  • EP#42 | English | Dr Aditya Balasubramanian | Revisiting the Dawn of Market Liberalism in India

    EP#42 | English | Dr Aditya Balasubramanian | Revisiting the Dawn of Market Liberalism in India

    While most electoral contests today are waged in the battlefield of cultural ideas, the free markets vs centrism debate was firmly set at the centre of the early Indian republic's mainstream political discourse. In fact, free markets served as the raison d'etre of the Swatantra Party, deemed as the first classical liberal party in the nation's political history. Prof Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University), author of "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India" to help deep dive into that era, to understand what the Swatantra experiment's enduring influence upon Indian politics is. #thecoffeehouseexperience #englishpodcast #DrAdityaBalasubramanian #RevisitingtheDawnofMarketLiberalisminIndia #AcademicPodcastYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexpRSS Feed: https://rss.com/podcasts/thecoffeehouseexperience/Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3P75RSNAmazon Music: https://amzn.to/3Z9dsVn

  • EP#41 | Bangla Podcast | Barna Saha | A Bengali Woman In Computer Science

    EP#41 | Bangla Podcast | Barna Saha | A Bengali Woman In Computer Science

    Barna Saha, a professor of computer science at University of California, San Diego, started her journey in computer science at Jadavpur University. Afterwards with a Master’s at IIT Kanpur, she moved to the US for PhD, and eventually became one of the leading theoretical computer scientist researchers, recognized for her unique contribution to approximate algorithms in the fine-grained setting among many other things across the globe. A role model for all aspiring female computer scientists, in this podcast Barna opens up about her own fascinating journey, her involvement to encourage more women’s participation in computer science, culture in the theory community, overview of her work, balancing work and family and much more. Barna’s official webpage from UCSD: https://barnasaha.net/ #BanglaPodcast #TheoreicalComputerScientist #WomenInCS #AcademicPodcast #BengaliAcademician