Episode 11
Brown Atlantis Radio feat. Dilip Menon
Episode Date: 22 March 2022
Guest: Dilip Menon
Listen to EpisodeIn this two hour episode of Brown Atlantis radio we follow Dilip up to the clouds and rain of Raags Megh and Malhar and down to terrains of coal trains in South Africa. The soundtracks of jazz and mining. To workers coming home to the rain, to not coming home at all. The expulsions of Tamils from Sri Lanka and fantasies of Kumari Kandam, an Indian Ocean Atlantis. We talk about the transoceanics of Dalit Panther militancy, birds in flight and in song and we listen to raags as they are meant to be heard, in full.
Dilip Menon is Professor of History, Department of International Relations and Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand. Dilip does research in World Literatures, Cultural History and Cultural Anthropology. His current project is on thinking the historical imagination in South Asia.
