In which I speak to Nicholas Gordon, editor of Fortune Magazine and host of the Asian Review of Books podcast, about Speaking of History (audio podcast on ARB site, 38 mins). Nicholas also had me on his show in 2021 to talk about my previous book, Indians.

“What does it mean to be a historian? How do you try to explain the past when sources are lacking? And how do we talk about history when it’s so politicized? In the new book Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present (India Allen Lane, 2025), Namit Arora and Romila Thapar discuss some of the challenges facing historians in India today, what it means to be an academic historian, and how ideas around gender, caste and religion may be getting distorted in India’s public history. Namit joins us on the show today… (more)”