‘As in life, so on keyboard’
Jazz pianist Stephen Merriman discusses his new CD, Modal Soul, and how his work as a psychotherapist informs his approach to composition and playing. “The art a person produces, in any area, always reflects one’s inner state, including not only one’s gifts and talents specific to the art form, but one’s orientation towards life in general,” he tells Rohit Chopra.
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‘Maoist rebels are mirrors of our own failings as a nation’
Sudeep Chakravarti, author of Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, discusses the Maoist rebellion in India. “There is a crying need to mainstream it, tell the lay reader what is going on, shake ‘middle India’ out of its mall-stupor and diminish the delusions of grandeur of India’s lawmakers,” he tells Rohit Chopra. “The truth about this wrenching war has to be told.”
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‘Media must uphold human rights and social justice principles’
Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. The author of Islam and the Secular State addresses the role of media in upholding the principles of rights and social justice and the problems with embedded journalism.
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‘What does online democracy mean?’
Professor Mark Nunes, in conversation with Rohit Chopra. In this inaugural interview in a series on new media and culture, the author of Cyberspaces of Everyday Life discusses the limitations of democracy online and the expectations from Web 2.0.
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