Eyes Right: Awakening Bharatmata: Swapan Dasgupta, Saba Naqvi, Makarand R. Paranjape and Pragya Tiwari
Swapan Dasgupta is a Member of Parliament and columnist for major Indian newspapers. A journalist for 30 years, he occupied senior editorial positions at the Times of India, Indian Express and India Today. He writes regular columns for Times of India, Telegraph and Pioneer, and is a commentator on TV networks. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right. In 2015, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha.
Saba Naqvi is one of India's best-known journalists. The former political editor of Outlook magazine, she now writes columns in leading Indian dailies including the Times of India,The Tribune and several websites. She is also a well-known election analyst and political commentator. She is currently visiting professor at the Jindal School of Journalism. She has published four books: In Good Faith, Capital Conquest, Shades of Saffron:From Vajpayee to Modi and her latest The Coalition Handbook. She is currently working on her next book on India’s backsliding democracy.
Makarand R. Paranjape is currently Director at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He has been Professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University for over 20 of his 39 years as a university teacher. He is the author of some 20 and editor of over two-dozen books, in addition to hundreds of academic papers and popular articles. His latest books include Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity, New Perspectives in Indian Science and Civilisation, Debating the 'Post' Condition in India and The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi. Paranjape is currently a columnist for Open Magazine, Mail Today and The Print.
Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant.
Swapan Dasgupta’s recent book Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right draws on a variety of sources to trace the evolution of right-wing thought in India. Citing a spectrum of thinkers and writers, it identifies the significant threads that constitute an ideology that has increasingly gained traction and dominated vote banks across the nation. A spirited conversation that discusses and debates the history and influences that forged the vortex of Hindu nationalism with Dasgupta alongside writers and journalists Hitesh Shankar, Makarand R. Paranjape, Saba Naqvi in conversation with Pragya Tiwari.
Presented by Dainik Bhaskar
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