Speaker
Anirudh Kanisetti
Author
Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian and author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2023 and the Tata Literature Live! Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022.
He was featured in THE WEEK’s 40 Under 40 list for India’s most promising creatives, as well as Open The Magazine’s Open Minds 2022 Soft Power list. His research has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts. His writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, and LiveMint, among others. He writes the weekly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint. He hosts three popular and critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India, Yuddha, and The Altar of Time.
Sessions
Day 2 - 7th October, Saturday @ The Niligir Library
12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
The Wonder That Was India: The Tides of Our History
Anirudh V. Kanisetti & Dr. A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Session Chair: Dr. Mahesh Rangarajan