Tanika Sarkar retired as Professor, Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has taught at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Witwatersrand, and Gottingen. Her work focuses on the intersections of religion, gender, caste and politics in both colonial and postcolonial South Asia, in particular on women and the Hindu Right. Her several books include Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation (2001), Rebels, Wives, Saints (2009) and Hindu Nationalism in India (2022). A recent volume that she has co-edited with Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, is ..read more

Listen in to Dr Ketaki Chowkhani, faculty - Manipal Centre for Humanities, in conversation with Prof Madhavi Menon. Prof Madhavi Menon is Professor of English at Ashoka University. She earned her Bachelors and Masters in English from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, and her PhD from Tufts University.  Dr Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. She teaches India's first ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical E ..read more