Cropped photo of the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur, India.

Vanessa Veak (Hawa Mahal - Jaipur, India 2020)

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The South Asian Studies at Stanford (SASS) Podcast features conversations between the Center for South Asia at Stanford and guests who have a connection to Stanford as faculty, staff, students, alumni, or partners.

The podcasts feature a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry to politics, from manuscript collecting to music, from business to Bollywood. Every podcast consists of an informal and informative conversation about South Asia and its meaning in the world, in our lives, and at Stanford.

Listen to the SASSpod wherever you listen to podcasts. If we are not on the podcasting platform you listen to, tell us about it.

Lalita du Perron talks to Gayatri Sethi (@desibookaunty on Instagram) about her time at Stanford Graduate School of Education, her book Unbelonging (from which she reads an excerpt), and what is considered home. Apologies for occasional internet…

Lalita du Perron talks to Elizabeth Lhost, Digital Librarian at South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), about the work of SAOA, the challenges and the joys of digitization, access, availability, and decolonizing the archive. Visit the SAOA website…

Lalita du Perron talks to Jonathan Peterson of Stanford Religious Studies about his research and teaching on Vedanta, atheism, ritual branding, body modification, and interreligious love.

Transcript available on request for a disability…

Lalita du Perron talks to award-winning journalist Shaili Chopra, who is building the women's internet in India with breakthrough initiatives to impact the lives of millions of women. The journalist turned entrepreneur set…

Lalita du Perron talks to Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford, who explains and helps us understand--as much as we can cram into one podcast--what is happening in Sri Lanka right now. Date of recording April 14,…

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