Session I: Rethinking the River

Panel discussion moderated by Shiv Visvanathan

In Conversation

Nandini Oza, writer and activist; Ambika Vishwanath, water security specialist; and Shalini Singh, journalist and co-founder PARI

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Session II: River/Water as Metaphor

Panel discussion moderated by Kishalay Bhattacharjee

In Conversation

Sumana Roy, poet and author; Anjali Capila, author and educator; and Ritu Priya, political geographer

The river has been the greatest source of imagination as language, as metaphor. It literally carries our civilization. From the theory of the city to the idea of the state, from the sense of the sacred to the very idea of metaphor, rivers have under written the ideas of civilization. This series is an attempt to challenge the mainstream imagination around rivers showing the multiplicity of visions, myths and realities they offer. In this sense the Ganges, the Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Hoogly nearly become tributaries of the Indian imagination. This is not geography but geography of the imagination.

(Collaboration: New Imaginations, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat)