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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