Since the Chinese occupation of 1959, the Tibetan issue has occupied popular imagination and the long-drawn resistance movement makes one curious about the definitions of conflict and resistance in their traditional sense. In this episode, Sharon Koshy is in conversation with Sonika Gupta, well-known scholar of Tibet studies and Associate Professor at IIT-Madras about Tibetan resistance movement, refugee rehabilitation, reincarnation and much more. Link to Tibetscapes (the Tibet Studies research cohort in IIT-Madras): https://tibetscapes.wordpress.com/

A sneak peek into the next episode of Southbound on the Tibetan community and resistance movement with the amazing and eloquent Sonika Gupta!

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In this episode, Akansha Tiwari, a conservationist and environmental filmmaker, and I have a conversation about the incremental effects of climate change and the means of ensuring inclusive climate action in the Indian Ocean region.

Episode 3 of Southbound explores the current direction of Egypt's Feminist Movements and their primary challenges from the perspective of NGOs which are involved in advancing gender equality and women's rights in the country.

Sharon Koshy is in conversation with Dr Dhanasree Jayaram (International Climate Protection Fellow, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin) on the impacts of climate change on gender, and the need of the hour to roll out gender transformative climate policies. This is especially true for South Asia, one of the highest climate-risk-prone regions in the world. As an active participant in global climate negotiations, Dhanasree also shares her experience at the recent COP27 Climate Change Conference in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt.

In Episode 1 of Southbound, Sharon Susan Koshy is in conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe, Research Professor at Clark University and Ms Priyanka Bhide, Director and Co-founder of Kubernein Initiative on Feminism in International Relations and the gender implications of international politics.