The Coffee House Experience
Season 1
by The Coffee House Experience
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
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
Anupam Guha, a computer scientist by training (with graduate degrees from prestigious Georgia Tech and Univ of Maryland), decided to pursue the public policy related questions from a computer science perspective. With the explosive growth in AI technologies, several tech stalwarts (such as the likes of Elon Musk) expressed their deep concerns about its potential disruption in the job market. However, is this a new phenomenon per se? Or is it a continuation of a long-known dichotomy of progress in automation technology and preserving a viable labor market? Or do we hear about this now more often as it is turning out to affect the so-called “white-collar” job market just now as opposed to so-called “blue-collar” jobs that were being affected for years? In this podcast Anupam elaborately discusses about all these nuance questions from his own philosophical foundation, deeply rooted in Marxism and technological expertise gained over many years of rigorous training as a computer scientist at the highest level. #banglapodcast #artificialintelligence #publicpolicy #policyincomputerscienceFull Video: https://youtu.be/EmqDEExW25AYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@thecoffeehouseexperienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/coffeehouseexp
He is a leader in the Indian analytics industry with 20+ years' experience. He is a co-founder of the wildly popular digital storytelling medium, Paperclip. Tune in to get a sneak peek into Indranath Mukherjee's journey. #banglapodcast #datanalytics #paperclips #AI #machinelearning #IndranathMukherjee
n India Maoism flourished as a struggle of marginalized groups, such as peasants and several indigenous peoples. While characterized by violent armed struggle and guerrilla warfare akin to other similar movements across the globe, Indian Maoism got its special character by taking the deep-rooted caste-division into account and marry it with the universal class-struggle. Suparna Banerjee, a sociologist based in Germany, explored the Maoist-dominated regions of rural India, documented her experience, and raised legitimate questions regarding the root of several pertinent issues in her new book titled "Maoists and Government Welfare: Excluding Legitimacy or Legitimising Exclusion?", which is an extension of her PhD thesis work done at University of Bonn. In this podcast she discusses this book, and other experiences regarding this.Suparna's academic page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Suparna-Banerjee-4Link to the book: https://www.amazon.in/Maoists-Government-Welfare-Legitimacy-Legitimising/dp/0367704153/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2L3WMIFMD4L3A&keywords=suparna+banerjee&qid=1688137520&sprefix=suparna+banerjee%2Caps%2C245&sr=8-2Telegraph article on the book: https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/people/suparna-banerjee-tries-to-find-answers-with-her-debut-book-maoists-and-government-welfare-excluding-legitimacy-or-legitimising-exclusion/cid/1934687Suparna Banerjee's contact: mail.suparnabanerjee@gmail.com
Since its publication, NEP 2020 has been in the center of numerous controversies. While many lauded it for apparent modernization of Indian education by enabling more flexible curriculum, it has been criticized for over-centralization, politicization and broadening the way to invite more private capital into an already highly unequal education system. In this episode Swati Moitra, a professor at Gurudas College, Kolkata, and an education activist, elaborates on several issues with NEP, more prominently, how it should be seen in a continued global effort of transforming education from a fundamental right to a user-pay commodity and how the so-called modernization aspects are founded on rather shaky ground.
Be it Edith Simmons (Mahanagar) or Violet Stoneham (36 Chowringhee Lane), the Anglo-Indian community's portrayal in cinema can be deemed enigmatic, to say the least. This dovetails into the challenge of identity that is central to the community's enduring presence in independent India. Barry O Brien, noted quizmaster and ex-MLA of the WB Legislative Assembly, joins us to discuss his book "The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community", wherein he presents an insider's view of his community. Independent Film Circle (IFC)'s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Independent-Film-Circle-106947891225568
Anindya Sen Gupta, a faculty at JU Film studies, and a renowned film critique, is a keen observer of the evolution of cinema. In this podcast he talks about his journey with Cinema, its evolution, and trend in contemporary cinema, in particular with the rapid development in technology aka algorithms. This episode is co-hosted by a special host Anubhav Roy Anindya's academic webpage: https://jadavpur.academia.edu/AnindyaSengupta (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anubhav-Roy-2) Independent Film Circle (IFC)'s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Independent-Film-Circle-106947891225568
Rajibul Islam, physicist at the University of Waterloo, joins us in the latest episode. His research interests are in quantum information processing, in particular quantum simulation and computation. He is also a co-founder of bigyan.org.in, a leading online science outreach platform in Bangla.
Garga Chatterjee, a Harvard PhD and currently working as a faculty at Indian Statistical Institute, is known more for his fervent support for Bengali Nationalism and rigorous opposition to "Hindi Imperialism". He, as the founding member and general secretary of Bangla Pokkho, constantly fights for rights of Bengalis within the Indian Union. Nevertheless, Bangla Pokkho often receives criticism for its oversimplified narratives, tribalism, and inciting anti-Bengali sentiments. In this podcast, Garga opens up about his journey from Medical College to Harvard and back to Kolkata, nuances of federalism, the economic, cultural and political hegemony of Imperial forces in detail. In contrast to his appearances at mainstream media, this discussion contains elaborated ideological discussion regarding nationalism, federalism and imperialism.