Recorded voices
Interviews & oral history
The spoken record of the Indian liberal tradition. Open a figure to hear their oral history: the people who lived the licence raj and the 1991 reforms, sitting down to tell it. Or browse the themed collections of historic addresses, topical talks, animated explainers, and conversations. Every recording carries a cleaned transcript, an AI summary, and the original video.
92 recordings · 2015–2024 · transcripts included
By figure
Interviewees whose oral histories run across several sittings. Open a figure to see every conversation with them in one place.
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D. R. Pendse
8 conversations · 2016
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Deepak Lal
6 conversations · 2016
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Jagdish Bhagwati
4 conversations · 2018
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Minoo Shroff
4 conversations · 2015
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Sunil S. Bhandare
4 conversations · 2015
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Jayaprakash Narayan
3 conversations · 2020
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Minoo Masani
3 conversations · 2018–2019
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S. Divakara
2 conversations · 2015
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Ronald Meinardus
1 conversation
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Sharad Joshi
1 conversation · 2019
Collections
Recordings grouped by kind rather than by person: addresses, talks, explainers, and the conversations.
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Talks & monologues
40 recordings · 2018–2023
Topical talks from the #IndianLiberals series — Bollywood and liberalisation, forest rights, the farmers' movement, populism, and the state of the liberal project.
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IL Explainers
14 recordings · 2021–2024
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.
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Conversations
2 recordings · 2019–2020
Sit-down conversations and dialogues that aren't a single interviewee's oral history — cross-talks, panel exchanges, and interviews with visiting liberals.
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