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NBN Episodes hosted by Ian:
July 13, 2018
Keywords in Sound
Featuring twenty entries on subjects such as music, voice, noise, shape and the body Keywords in Sound (Duke, 2015) pushes at the boundaries of ‘sound…
June 29, 2018
Waste of a Nation
Is India facing a waste crisis? As its population, cities and consumption grow what are the implications for the health, well being and everyday lives…
June 15, 2017
Sonic Rupture
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urba…
June 8, 2017
Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade
Rajan Gurukkal's Rethinking Classical Indo-Roman Trade: Political Economy of Eastern Mediterranean Exchange Relations (Oxford University Press, 2016) …
March 6, 2017
Nation at Play
Covering sporting activities from ancient times right up to the modern day, Ronojoy Sen's Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Columbia Univer…
March 2, 2017
Patronage as Politics in South Asia
Does patronage always imply a corruption of democratic political processes? Across sixteen essays by historians, political scientists and anthropologi…
November 23, 2016
Reengineering India
How is India's burgeoning IT industry reshaping the country? What types of capital is IT attracting and what formations does it take? How are software…
November 2, 2016
The Pariah Problem
The so called "Pariah Problem" emerged in public consciousness in the 1890s in India as state officials, missionaries and "upper"caste landlords, amon…
October 28, 2016
Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets
Roman Sieler's

 Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets: Medicine and Martial Arts in South India (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a fine-grained e…
September 26, 2016
Nature in the City
In Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press, 2016), Harini Nagendra traces centuries of interaction bet…
August 17, 2016
BITS of Belonging
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India's silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta's new book, BITS of Belo…
August 11, 2016
Rule by Aesthetics
D. Asher Ghertner explores why the ways things look are fundamental for Delhi's transformation into a "world class"city. Based on deep ethnographic en…
August 2, 2016
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
Mumbai is in many ways the paradigmatic city of India's celebrated economic upturn, but the city's transformation went hand-in-hand with increasing wa…
June 29, 2016
Europe in Autumn
Do not call Dave Hutchinson prescient. Even though his Fractured Europe Sequence envisions a continent crumbling into ever-smaller countries, the idea…
June 26, 2016
Reel World
Do we live in a real world or a 'reel world,' in which life begins to feel like a film? In this wonderful ethnography of the Tamil film industry, Anan…
June 13, 2016
The Trouble with Marriage
Are solutions to marital problems always best solved through legal means? Should alternative dispute resolutions be celebrated? In her latest book The…
May 19, 2016
Making News in Global India
What role does Bangalore's private news culture play in shaping the southern Indian metropolis' ongoing urban transformation? Sahana Udupa's new book …
April 8, 2016
Paper Tiger
A village terrorized by a man eating tiger and a state struggling to implement possibly the largest social security program in the world coalesce in t…
March 2, 2016
Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia
Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, were deeply entwined with the colonial legal system of British India and Burma, far beyond what one might expect f…
February 3, 2016
Rituals of Ethnicity
Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) by Sara Shneiderman is the first comprehensi…
October 2, 2015
Entangled Urbanism
Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon (Oxford University Press, 2015) is the latest book by Sanjay Srivasta…
September 22, 2015
Impossible Citizens
Neha Vora's Impossible Citizens: Dubai's Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) is a wonderfully rich and engaging account of middle class Indi…