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The Coffee House Experience

The Coffee House Experience

A Podcast to discuss things pertaining to Bengal and Bengali people. Our informal discussions (a.k.a. Adda in Bengali) are long, topical and largely spontaneous. We mostly talk in Bengali and occasionally in English. The channel is run by three Engineering graduates from Jadavpur University, namely, Pratyay Mukherjee, Srinjoy Ganguly and Soumik Ghosh.

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CHE#52 | Bangla Podcast | Bangladesh, 2024 | Sharmee...

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2024/08/23

In this unique episode, we discuss the evolving situation in the unprecedented situation in Bangladesh, with Sharmee Hossain, a Bangladeshi and Soumik Pal, an Indian, both faculties of North South University in Dhaka. Note: This was recorded on August 10, 2024 Youtube: https://youtu.be/N6LDGIT96p0#bangladesh #Bangladeshquotareformmovement #quotamovement #sheikhhasina # #Bangla #bengalilanguage #banglabhasha #bengali #bengal #PratyayMukherjee #BanglaPodcast #SharmeeHossain #SoumikPal

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92:21

CHE#51 | Post Election Commentary 2024 | Amitava...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2024/06/22

While the festivities around the national election just came to an end, there were many facts that did surprise/puzzle/mesmerize us. For example: amateurs like ourselves were much closer to predicting the accurate outcome (see here: https://youtu.be/fKMHjVM9L50?si=I_tmG_VDaQVDH_AP for our data-based prediction for Bengal) than the poll giants; despite all the social media hype CPIM is yet to open their account in Bengal for the second time in a row; surprise turn around of UP; limitation of

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115:38

#CHE 50 | Many Facets of Resistance against Fascism...

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2024/06/15

Like many, Kasturi and Dwaipayan, an independent documentary filmmaker couple, were shell-shocked when the 2019 election results came out, especially by the huge surge in support for right-wing politics in West Bengal. From then on, they dedicated themselves totally to building long-term socio-cultural fronts to resist the neo-fascist right-wing hegemony. Using their forte in documentary film-making, they delved into making a unique documentary, called A Bid for Bengal, which not only captures this

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CHE#49 | Election 2024 in Bengal - Prediction via...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2024/05/31

Srinjoy and Pratyay analyze the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal using voting statistics since 2011. The predictions are also informed by qualitative insights such as anecdotal evidence, candidate selection and varied local issues. This is the first endeavour in amateur psephology by the hosts and should only be taken as a quasi-pedagogical exercise. In other words, don't take the prediction too seriously.Youtube: https://youtu.be/fKMHjVM9L50#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #election #Bangla

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57:45

CHE#48 | English Podcast | Elise Kerdoncuff | Origin...

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2024/04/23

Analyzing ancient DNAs of different populations led to many astonishing discoveries about the past of our species. Unsurprisingly, like other areas, scientific findings through genome analyses collided with conventional wisdoms leading to cultural and political battle. This is especially true for India where a certain political ideology, deeply rooted in conjectured indigenousness, has been gaining strength for the last few decades. While earlier genome studies showed strong evidence (at least

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57:45

CHE#47 | English Podcast | Elise Kerdoncuff | Origin...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2024/04/23

Analyzing ancient DNAs of different populations led to many astonishing discoveries about the past of our species. Unsurprisingly, like other areas, scientific findings through genome analyses collided with conventional wisdoms leading to cultural and political battle. This is especially true for India where a certain political ideology, deeply rooted in conjectured indigenousness, has been gaining strength for the last few decades. While earlier genome studies showed strong evidence (at least

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73:53

CHE#47 | Pushkar Maitra | Welfarism or Hindutva:...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2024/04/12

Can we attribute the BJP's rise in West Bengal to the efficacy of their welfare programs? Or is Hindutva and / or PM Modi's personal popularity the key to the party's winning formula in the state? Prof Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) joins us in the latest episode of The Coffee House Experience to discuss all this and much more. Hosted by Srinjoy GangulyYoutube: https://youtu.be/Mll6HUt6qSc#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #AcademicResearch #BJP #TMC #CPIM #MamataBanerjee #NarendraModi #Statistics

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CHE#46 | Bangla Podcast | Arghya Sengupta | Is it...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2024/03/29

The Indian Constitution is widely perceived today as a transformative document that sought to ‘educate’ the first citizens of an India, then recently freed from the yoke of colonial rule, about what living in a democracy substantively means. It would be surprising then to note that large parts of the document are essentially re-purposed from the Government of India Act 1935, which was widely reviled as a ‘charter of slavery’ by the very same freedom fighters who deliberated in the Constituent

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117:15

#CHE 45 | Garga Chatterjee | Politics and the Bengali...

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2024/03/08

Is it inevitable that Bangla as a language will eventually be colonized by the Hindi - Hindu - Hindusthan consensus, which is currently ruling the roost in New Delhi? Garga Chatterjee is at his combative best here as he dissects this possibility and declaims the historical antecedents of the present moment.Youtube: https://youtu.be/KumuxutFeeo#CHE #thecoffeehouseexperience #GargaChatterjee #Politics #Bangla #bengalilanguage #banglapokkho #SoumikGhosh #SrinjoyGanguly #banglabhasha #bengali

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85:12

#CHE 44 | Bangla Podcast | Ronojoy Sen | The...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/11/24

India's democratic experiment presents an interesting dichotomy. While elections have witnessed high voter participation rates on a sustained basis, Indian citizens are quite vocal in expressing their distrust of their elected representatives in the Parliament. Ronojoy Sen, senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asia Studies at the National University of Singapore, joins us in this episode to help analyse the evolution of the Parliament from an institutional lens. We focus on how the

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EP#43 | Bengali Podcast | Dipankar Bhattacharya |...

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2023/09/30

The Marxism-Leninism (ML) movement in India started in the 1970s with the famous Naxalbari uprising to overthrow the Government and establish a one-party socialist state la China. Later, the movement was divided into several fragments, a number of which attempted to re-interpret the theory of ML in the Indian context, and subsequently joined electoral politics. Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation (CPIML) is a prominent front among them. As a national general secretary, Dipankar

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EP#42 | English | Dr Aditya Balasubramanian |...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/09/08

While most electoral contests today are waged in the battlefield of cultural ideas, the free markets vs centrism debate was firmly set at the centre of the early Indian republic's mainstream political discourse. In fact, free markets served as the raison d'etre of the Swatantra Party, deemed as the first classical liberal party in the nation's political history. Prof Aditya Balasubramanian (Australian National University), author of "Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in

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71:34

EP#41 | Bangla Podcast | Barna Saha | A Bengali Woman...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/08/24

Barna Saha, a professor of computer science at University of California, San Diego, started her journey in computer science at Jadavpur University. Afterwards with a Master’s at IIT Kanpur, she moved to the US for PhD, and eventually became one of the leading theoretical computer scientist researchers, recognized for her unique contribution to approximate algorithms in the fine-grained setting among many other things across the globe. A role model for all aspiring female computer scientists, in this

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EP#40 | Bangla Podcast | Anupam Guha | AI, Labor and...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/08/09

Anupam Guha, a computer scientist by training (with graduate degrees from prestigious Georgia Tech and Univ of Maryland), decided to pursue the public policy related questions from a computer science perspective. With the explosive growth in AI technologies, several tech stalwarts (such as the likes of Elon Musk) expressed their deep concerns about its potential disruption in the job market. However, is this a new phenomenon per se? Or is it a continuation of a long-known dichotomy of progress in

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55:30

EP#39 | Bangla Podcast | Indranath Mukherjee | Of...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/07/21

He is a leader in the Indian analytics industry with 20+ years' experience. He is a co-founder of the wildly popular digital storytelling medium, Paperclip. Tune in to get a sneak peek into Indranath Mukherjee's journey. #banglapodcast #datanalytics #paperclips #AI #machinelearning #IndranathMukherjee

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EP#38 | Bangla Podcast | Suparna Banerjee | Maoism in...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/07/03

n India Maoism flourished as a struggle of marginalized groups, such as peasants and several indigenous peoples. While characterized by violent armed struggle and guerrilla warfare akin to other similar movements across the globe, Indian Maoism got its special character by taking the deep-rooted caste-division into account and marry it with the universal class-struggle. Suparna Banerjee, a sociologist based in Germany, explored the Maoist-dominated regions of rural India, documented her experience,

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96:58

EP#37 | Bangla Podcast | Swati Moitra | National...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/06/23

Since its publication, NEP 2020 has been in the center of numerous controversies. While many lauded it for apparent modernization of Indian education by enabling more flexible curriculum, it has been criticized for over-centralization, politicization and broadening the way to invite more private capital into an already highly unequal education system. In this episode Swati Moitra, a professor at Gurudas College, Kolkata, and an education activist, elaborates on several issues with NEP, more

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94:41

EP#36 | English Podcast | Barry O'Brien | Who are the...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/06/08

Be it Edith Simmons (Mahanagar) or Violet Stoneham (36 Chowringhee Lane), the Anglo-Indian community's portrayal in cinema can be deemed enigmatic, to say the least. This dovetails into the challenge of identity that is central to the community's enduring presence in independent India. Barry O Brien, noted quizmaster and ex-MLA of the WB Legislative Assembly, joins us to discuss his book "The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community", wherein he presents an insider's view of his community

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EP#35 | Bangla Podcast | Anindya Sen Gupta | Cinema...

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2023/05/30

Anindya Sen Gupta, a faculty at JU Film studies, and a renowned film critique, is a keen observer of the evolution of cinema. In this podcast he talks about his journey with Cinema, its evolution, and trend in contemporary cinema, in particular with the rapid development in technology aka algorithms. This episode is co-hosted by a special host Anubhav Roy Anindya's academic webpage: https://jadavpur.academia.edu/AnindyaSengupta (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anubhav-Roy-2) Independent Film

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92:03

EP#34 | Bangla Podcast | Rajibul Islam | From popular...

The Coffee House Experience ·

2023/05/30

Rajibul Islam, physicist at the University of Waterloo, joins us in the latest episode. His research interests are in quantum information processing, in particular quantum simulation and computation. He is also a co-founder of bigyan.org.in, a leading online science outreach platform in Bangla.

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