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Recorded voices

Interviews & oral history

The spoken record of the Indian liberal tradition: oral-history conversations with people who lived the licence raj and the 1991 reforms, historic addresses recovered from tape, and topical talks. Every recording carries a cleaned transcript, an AI summary, and the original video or audio.

72 recordings · 1992–2023 · transcripts included

Oral histories

26 recordings

Sit-down conversations with veterans of the Indian liberal movement, economists, business leaders, and organisers recalling the licence raj, the 1991 reforms, and the institutions they built.

D. R. Pendse

8 conversations · 2016

Minoo Shroff

4 conversations · 2015

Sunil S. Bhandare

4 conversations · 2015

Jayaprakash Narayan

3 conversations · 2020

Minoo Masani

2 conversations · 2018

S. Divakara

2 conversations · 2015

Conversations

1 conversation · 2020

Jagdish Bhagwati

1 conversation · 2018

Ronald Meinardus

1 conversation

Historic lectures & addresses

7 recordings

Recordings of addresses delivered decades before they reached the archive, from Nani Palkhivala's 1992 Union Budget address to Sudha Shenoy's lectures at the Mises Institute.

Talks & monologues

30 recordings

Topical talks from the #IndianLiberals series, Bollywood and liberalisation, forest rights, the farmers' movement, populism, and the state of the liberal project.

IL Explainers

9 recordings

Short animated explainers on landmark liberal texts and under-told figures, B.R. Shenoy, Begum Rokeya, Tagore's Streer Potro, and the women liberals series.