Video / Audio Collection

• Video: The Disappearing Present - Reflections on Ideology by Dilip Simeon
  29 January 2021

  Ours is an age of ideology. Ideology is a means of submerging everyday existence into a dream-like waiting room. Ideologically-sustained life is a relentless deferral of presence on behalf of a hoped-for glorious future. Our gaze is prompted backward and forward, the future being the domain wherein the past may be rectified. If the criterion of truth is not in agreement with reality, but in agreement with the spirit of a nation, class or caste, then apparently, truth has been replaced by perspective; theory by interpretation; presence by transience; and actuality by possibility. We are left with neither knowledge nor wisdom, but recipes for endless conflict and linguistic chaos. Such are the dimensions of contemporary nihilism.

• Audio: Rationalism, atheism and Hinduism in dravidian India, c.1920-90 by Dr David Washbrook (Majewski Lecture Nov 2005)
  29 January 2021

  lecture by Dr. David Washbrook (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford) on 16 Nov 2005.

• Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology Social Europe Podcast
  22 January 2021
  Politics
  Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the  (...)
• Video: Mongolia - From the Steppe to the Slum | An Aljazeera Documentary
  22 January 2021

  As mass livestock deaths threaten Mongolia’s nomadic culture, some herders are abandoning their traditional way of life

• Audio: Rain Child | Susmit Bose
  15 January 2021
• Video: India vs Pakistan 1st Cricket Test Match 1978-79. Pak 1st innings
  15 January 2021
• Video: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Message Following the Attack on the Capitol Hill on 6 Jan 2021
  15 January 2021
• Video: Monkey Business - a film by Howard Hawks (1952)
  9 January 2021
  Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe
• The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward, Episode 3, with Noeleen Heyzer
  2 January 2021

  The United Nations at 75: Looking Back to Look Forward," host Margaret P. Karns and Noeleen Heyzer, former executive director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, discuss the role of women in the UN over the years. Heyzer speaks about the Beijing Women’s Conference; Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security; and the prospects for increasing gender equality in the UN system in the decades to come.

• Video: Feminism for all | Kamla Bhasin (2017)
  2 January 2021

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