Department Of English
Ahmed Ali Memorial Lectures
| Sr.No. | Speaker | Title of the Talk | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Tabish Khair | Negotiating India and Islam: The Modernity of Ahmed Ali | 25 Feb 2008 |
| Second | U R Ananthamurthy | Some Personal Reflections of an Indian Bhasha Writer | 31 Oct 2008 |
| Third | Aruna Chakravorty | Becoming a Translator: A Journey | 30 Oct 2009 |
| Fourth | Shamsur Rehman Farooqi | The Truth of Fictions | 23 Feb 2011 |
| Fifth | G J V Prasad | The language of Multiple Tongues: Englihs in India | 1 March 2011 |
| Sixth | Harish Trivedi | Ahmed Ali and British Censorship | 13 March 2013 |
| Seventh | Mukul Kesavan | Novel, Cricket and the Nation | 21 March 2014 |
| Eighth | Alok Bhalla | Silence, Sympathy and Violence | 9 March 2015 |
| Ninth | Rajdeep Sardesai | Confluences of Fact and Fiction | 18 Feb 2016 |
| Tenth | Irfan Habib | Greece and India: Reconstructing our Intellectual Past | 29 March 2017 |
| Eleventh | Qazi Afzal Husain | Urdu Literature and Criticism | 13 March 2018 |
| Twelfth | Shahid Amin | A Learned Clerk in the Colonial Archive: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaibe and the Linguistics Survey of India | 28 Feb 2019 |
| Thirteenth | Amit Chaudhari | The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and the Rationalist Tradition in India Today | 4 March 2020 |
| Fourteenth | Faisal Devji | Losing the Present to History | 22 Feb 2022 |
| Fifteenth | Vivek Chibber | The Flight from Materialism | 11 January 2023 |
| Sixteenth | Ananya Jahanara Kabir | Men and Rivers, Revisited: Humayun Kabir’s India, Bengal and Islam | 22 December 2023 |
| Seventeenth | Kapil Kapoor | What is Indian Knowledge System? | 26 March 2025 |