Native Picture

Rice mandi (market), Panipat, Haryana. Nov 2020.

This series of podcasts At Odds brings out aspects of the experience of inequality in India in terms of what it does to the economy, society, and politics. Based on continuing research at the Inequality and Human Development Programme (IHDP) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore, treats inequality as a lens through which we can capture otherwise hidden elements of Indian reality.

In this podcast, Prof Narendar Pani and Dr Anant Kamath talk about inequality in contemporary India, exchanging thoughts, evidence, insights, and debates, over why inequality matters, what it does, how it is viewed, and how it is experienced. Their conversation journeys through issues on inequality in everyday life, its impact on economy and society, and reflections on how inequalities become aspirations in India today. In this process, they touch upon farmer suicides, migration, the left-behind, climate, conflict, technology, and gender; and inspect what inequality sounds like in our political conversations and whether inequality is linked to culture. Finally, they contemplate on what is to be done about this.

Produced by Native Picture in partnership with the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS). Link in bio

And Adivasi woman in the Eastern Ghats curious to know what we were shooting.
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Basant Kumar Jadav, a contractor who gets contracts from the government which according to him are small, ₹10-₹20 lakhs. Gharwatanr Baludih, Jharkhand.