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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