Hosted by the ANU South Asia Research Institute. This talk explores the imaginative life of yoga, a privileged symbol of India in today’s world, in twenty-first-century stories. The sojourns of yoga through novels, poems, videos, and many other cultural texts bring to light fierce quests for power in a transnational landscape. This talk explores three key images in speculative
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but shaye, for the first time, i got a little bit emotional. yeah, i wanted to come back to that because i think we all felt it a little bit today. i know you did. i could see from the way you talked about it in the first hour. the human toll is a good word and we saw that in the testimony of some of these people who were targeted by donald trump. but i like to think about it in a different way, which is another charged phrase, which is a phrase i can t believe how many times i ve invoked it on this show, which is the phrase, political violence. and what i think was so useful about this, in addition to putting a human face on it, was it started to expand our definition, our understanding of what political violence is. i have talked with you, many times, i said, you know, going back almost a year, more than a year, i m worried about political violence becoming more toll rated in american public culture and whenever i say that, people say, there s not that many people brandishing gun
hour a select committee of the u.s. senate is about to begin public hearings on something called watergate. the effect on public culture is the people were following it obsessively. he had a plan where the leaders would be abducted and detained in a place like mexico and that they would then be returned to this country at the end of the convention. i m going to ask the audience to please refrain from any kind of demonstration. i saw a pop-culture develop and it was just amazing. the rule against laughter does not apply in the evening. no one has asked me but i would like to make it clear right now that i have no knowledge whatever of the watergate coverup. it sort of became a folk hero, kind of an iconic figure. and when he got agitated, his