symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Ananya Vajpeyi, Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• THE ALTERNATIVE CLASSICISM OF CLASSICAL INDIA
  Sheldon Pollock, Arvind Raghunathan Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York

• MNEMOCULTURAL AFFIRMATIONS
  D. Venkat Rao, Professor, Department of English Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad 

• INDIA'S PAST, PHILOLOGY, AND CLASSICAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
  Alex Watson, Professor of Indian Philosophy, Ashoka University, Sonipat

• ARCHIVAL MEMORIES
  Supriya Gandhi, scholar and writer, Panchgani

• AMERICA'S VEDANTA WARS
  Richard Fox Young, Timby Chair, History of Religions, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey

• ON THE BENEFITS OF PERSIAN POETIC JOUSTING
  Prashant Keshavmurthy, Assistant Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal

• HOW MODERN INDIA LOOKS AT ITS PREMODERNITY
  Pankaj Mishra, writer and commentator, in an interview with Ananya Vajpeyi, CSDS

• FLIGHTS OF FANCY
  Siddhartha Deb, author and commentator, New York

• INDO-PERSIAN TRANSLATIONS
  Audrey Truschke, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, California

• GODLESS?
  T.M. Krishna, Carnatic vocalist, thinker and writer on contemporary issues, Chennai

• THE VEDA AS WORD, WISDOM AND WORLD
  David Shulman, Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

• NOT THE END OF THE BOOK
  Rohan Murty, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, interviewed by Rahul Jacob, Managing Editor, 'Business Standard', Delhi

• COMMENT

• IN MEMORIAM
  Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri 1934-2015

• BACKPAGE