About Stuti Roy

Stuti Roy has recently graduated with an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

NBN Episodes hosted by Stuti:

Kalathmika Natarajan, "Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy: Caste, Class and Indenture Abroad, 1914-67" (Oxford UP, 2026)

November 2, 2025

Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy

Kalathmika Natarajan
Hosted by Stuti Roy

Over the centuries, millions of migrant labourers sailed from the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, to shape what is now…

Charles Glass, "Syria: Civil War to Holy War?" (OR Books, 2024)

July 14, 2025

Syria: Civil War to Holy War?

Charles Glass
Hosted by Stuti Roy

In December 2024, the long and bloody stalemate in Syria broke down. In a transformation breathtaking for its suddenness and speed, President Bashar a…

Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)

April 19, 2025

Enemy Feminisms

Sophie Lewis
Hosted by Stuti Roy

Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2025) is a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to…

Ståle Holgersen, "Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso, 2024)

April 9, 2025

Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World" (Verso

Ståle Holgersen
Hosted by Stuti Roy

In Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World (Verso, 2024), Ståle Holgersen develops a conceptualization of 'crisis' that moves beyon…

Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)

March 19, 2025

The Psychic Lives of Statues

Rahul Rao
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From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The Ps…

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, "Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment" (HarperCollins India, 2020)

February 14, 2025

Mission Bengal

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
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From being a fringe political party in 2013 to sweeping nearly half of the state s forty-two Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the BJP has gained ground in Wes…

Alpa Shah, "The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India" (OR Books, 2024)

February 13, 2025

The Incarcerations

Alpa Shah
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The Incarcerations: Bk-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (OR Books, 2024) pulls back the curtain on Indian democracy to tell the remarkable and…

Ramachandra Guha, "Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism" (Yale UP, 2024)

February 1, 2025

Speaking with Nature

Ramachandra Guha
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From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world. …

Ashish Avikunthak, "Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

January 21, 2025

Bureaucratic Archaeology

Ashish Avikunthak
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Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India (Cambridge UP, 2022) presents a novel ethnographic examination of archaeologic…

Azad Essa, "Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel" (Pluto Press, 2023)

December 13, 2024

Hostile Homelands

Azad Essa
Hosted by Stuti Roy

Under Narendra Modi, India has changed dramatically. As the world attempts to grapple with its trajectory towards authoritarianism and a 'Hindu Rashtr…

Nandini Sundar, "The Burning Forest: India's War In Bastar" (Verso, 2019)

November 12, 2024

The Burning Forest

Nandini Sundar
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The Burning Forest: India's War Against the Maoists (Verso, 2019) by Nandini Sundar is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasant…