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Interview

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Pollution and the modern city

Lessons from India's past

17 November 2023

(0:20 h)

Photograph of busy street scene in India, with many people walking down one side of street, next to a riverside or dock area. In the background is a tall chimney that is pouring out black smoke. On a brown background, with the GHIL podcast symbol of a microphone and headphones in a circle.

Interview

Awadhendra Sharan, Indra Sengupta and Kim König

Pollution and the modern city
Lessons from India's past

How have India's colonial past and its life as a postcolonial nation state shaped the history of climate change, particulate matter, and germs and viruses in the region? What is the relationship between these histories and India's urban modernity?

In this GHIL podcast interview GHIL Senior Fellow and Head of the India Research Programme Indra Sengupta and PR Officer Kim König are joined by Awadhendra Sharan, Director and Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, to talk about the research behind his GHIL lecture on ‘India’s Atmospheric Modernity: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City’.”

Don’t miss his accompanying GHIL Lecture on "India’s Atmospheric Modernity: Smoke, Particulate Matter, and the Modern City"

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