Manu Bhagavan's guest appearances

Manu Bhagavan

CUNY Graduate Center

The Global Thinkers Series, Oxford

International Horizons

Misrepresented

Ian Johnson

Gareth Evans

Helena Rosenblatt

Brynn Tannehill

John Kelly

Justin Brown

Jesse Prinz

Ashley Dawson

Zachariah Mampilly

Paul Krugman

Susan Neiman

Peter Burke

Meena Alexander

Sam Clark

Chas Freeman

OwlTail

How did India go from declaring victory over covid in January to being the world’s hotspot 3 months later? As one of the largest pharmaceutical and vaccine producers in the world, did India focus too much on vaccine diplomacy and too little on internal vaccination efforts? How has India’s regional competition with China affected how this plays out?Manu Bhagavan, Professor of history, human rights, and public policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, talks to RBI Director John Torpey about how India reached its current crisis point and what other problems face today’s India on the international stage.You can find the transcript here: https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2021/04/26/indias-struggle-against-covid-with-manu-bhagavan/

How did India go from declaring victory over covid in January to being the world’s hotspot 3 months later? As one of the largest pharmaceutical and vaccine producers in the world, did India focus too much on vaccine diplomacy and too little on internal vaccination efforts? How has India’s regional competition with China affected how this plays out?<br><br>Manu Bhagavan, Professor of history, human rights, and public policy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, talks to RBI Director John Torpey about how India reached its current crisis point and what other problems face today’s India on the international stage.<br><br>You can find the transcript here: <a href="https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2021/04/26/indias-struggle-against-covid-with-manu-bhagavan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2021/04/26/indias-struggle-against-covid-with-manu-bhagavan/</a>

India’s Struggle Against Covid with Manu Bhagavan

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Professor Manu Bhagavan, of Hunter College and CUNY, speaks on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. For the fifth GTI Professor Manu Bhagavan speaks on the life and work of Indian diplomat and politician Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be elected president of the United Nations General Assembly, in 1953. A prominent politician and active Indian nationalist, she was also the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet  position in pre-independent India. As newly-independent India's top diplomat, Pandit served as ambassador to the Soviet Union (1947-49), the United States and Mexico (1949-51), Ireland (1955-61), and Spain (1958-61), and high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1955-61). In 1979, she was appointed India's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission. Pandit was an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College.

Life and thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan 

This week’s guest is Manu Bhagavan, professor of history and human rights at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Professor Bhagavan is a specialist on modern India focusing on the 20th Century late-colonial and post-colonial periods, with particular interests in human rights, nationalism and questions of sovereignty. He is author of the critically acclaimed The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World published by Harper Collins in 2012.

The Thought Project - Episode 9 - Interview with Manu Bhagavan