Events

CPR-TCPD Dialogues: Living Together, Separately

Date and Time

July 12, 2021

6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Location

Online via Zoom

Panelists
SY Quraishi

Former Chief Election Commissioner & Distinguished Fellow, TCPD

Satendra Kumar

Political Ethnographer, G.B. Pant Institute of Social Sciences, Allahabad

Neera Chandoke

Former Professor of Political Science, Delhi University

Neha Sahgal

Associate Director of Research, Pew Research Center

Jonathan Evans

Research Associate, Pew Research Center

Moderator Gilles Verniers

Co-Director, TCPD & Assistant Professor, Ashoka University

The Centre for Policy Research (CPR), the Trivedi Centre for Political Data (TCPD), Ashoka University, and the Pew Research Center invite you to a virtual panel discussion on: CPR-TCPD Dialogues: Living Together, Separately

About the Discussion

As part of its Dialogues on Indian Politics Series, CPR and TCPD are hosting a discussion on the findings of a major survey recently released by Pew Research Center in India. Conducted between late 2019 and early 2020, 30.000 respondents were interviewed on their views on religion, both in the private and public sphere. The Survey contains a wealth of information on how Indians view and practice their religion and sheds light on the changing modes of co-existence between different religions in India. The Pew Survey on religion provides a unique lens into such questions at a time of resurgence of religion in the public sphere and deep reconfiguration of its relation with politics.

The event will start with a presentation of the survey’s main findings, followed by a panel discussion.

About the Series

The CPR-TCPD Dialogues on Indian Politics brings together academicians, policy and political practitioners, and civil society actors to grapple with important social and political issues in India. It provides a forum for intellectually rigorous, non-partisan commentary to strengthen public discourse on politics in India. This dialogue series is an effort to understand the changing dynamics of Indian political parties, the impact of new and emerging social movements and the use of new instruments of mobilisation in our polity.

The CPR-TCPD Dialogues is curated by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and the Trivedi Centre for Political Data (TCPD) at Ashoka University. Founded in 1973, CPR is one of India’s leading think tanks, providing rigorous policy research on a variety of issues. Founded in 2015, TCPD is among India’s most well-respected institutions working with political data, providing data-driven research, policy work and journalism on India’s political life by producing and disseminating in open access scientifically collected and treated political data. The CPR-TCPD Dialogues leverages the unique strengths of these two institutions to provide rigorous and innovative commentary on India’s social and political challenges.