29 November 2019, 05:30 am
RIVER DIALOGUES
Programme Type
Talks
RIVER DIALOGUES
 
In conversation - Sanjoy Hazarika, Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and scholar, author, journalist, filmmaker;  and Hartosh Singh Bal, Political Editor, The Caravan and author of Waters Close Over Us: A Journey along the Narmada 
 
A new series of talks and dialogues that hopes to challenge the imagination of the “mainstream”. The series hopes to flow like tributaries into all other rivers like the Brahmaputra, Ganges, Narmada, Indus, Yamuna, Teesta, Gomti, Periyar, Krishna, Godavari, Sabarmati etc. The river conversations is critical to re-evaluate histories, reconnecting civilisations, cultures and peoples, ideas and regions. On opening of streams of thought and conversations for a future with exciting possibilities
 
Second in a new series of quarterly river conversations conceptualised by Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Associate Professor of Journalism and Vice Dean, School of Journalism and Communication, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat