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Tuesday 16 April
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
India is booming: everyone says so. The economy is growing to match its massive population, and new industries like IT are creating a thriving middle class. Yet millions of Indians, especially women, are doing it as tough as ever.
Following our spotlight events on Indonesia, Syria and China, the Fifth Estate turns to incredible India. What are the foreign policy objectives of this rapidly growing nation? And why has its relationship with Australia never quite worked as well as it might, despite strong ties in trade, sport, education and culture?
Join Sally Warhaft and guests Christopher Kremmer and Professor Robin Jeffrey for an in-depth look at India today, its relationship with Australia and the world.
Featuring
Sally Warhaft
Sally Warhaft is a Melbourne broadcaster, anthropologist and writer. She is the host of The Fifth Estate, the Wheeler Centre’s live series focusing on journalism, politics, media, and international relations, and The Leap Year ...
Robin Jeffrey
Professor Robin Jeffrey is a researcher and author with expertise in Indian politics, culture and media.
Jeffrey’s most recent book, written with his colleague Assa Doron, is The Great Indian Phone Book. The book is published in India under the title of Cell Phone Nation, and analyses the expansion of mobile telephone and its implications for society, politics and economics.
He is a co-editor of Being Muslim in South Asia, a collection under contract to Oxford University Press to be published in 2013, and a co-editor of Mughals and Mandarins, studies of the Chinese and Indian media by analysts and practitioners.
His long-term work focuses on a book called Slices of India, a history of India in the second half of the 20th century based around the years of the great Kumbh Mela in Allahabad.
Professor Jeffrey has written about Kerala, Punjab and Indian media. A third edition of India’s Newspaper Revolution was published in 2010.
He first lived in India as a school teacher in Chandigarh from 1967 to 1969 and has lived for six years in India between 1967 and 2010. He has published a number of books and contributes regularly to policy papers, reports and journals.
Professor Jeffrey completed a doctorate in Indian history at Sussex University in the United Kingdom in 1973. He taught for 25 years in the Politics Program at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, and worked twice at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Christopher Kremmer
Christopher Kremmer is the author of Inhaling the Mahatma, a memoir of the eight years in which he lived and worked in India.
His other books include The Carpet Wars: A Journey Across the Islamic Heartlands, Bamboo Palace: Discovering the Lost Dynasty of Laos, and a historical novel, The Chase, set in Australia in the 1940s and 50s.
Christopher’s books have been published in ten countries, including several translations, and have been recognised in many literary awards. Christopher has recently returned to Melbourne where he has taken on the role of Director of Communications and Publishing at the Australia India Institute based at the University of Melbourne.