‘We’re All Obsessed With Who We Are’: Sowmiya Ashok on Keeladi and the Search for Our Past

Name: ‘We’re All Obsessed With Who We Are’: Sowmiya Ashok on Keeladi and the Search for Our Past - The Wire
Uploaded: 2026-02-19T11:54:50+05:30
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Description: Watch Ashok in conversation with The Wire’s Jahnavi Sen about her research, why interpretations of history have become so contentious and the findings at Keeladi.

Watch Ashok in conversation with The Wire’s Jahnavi Sen about her research, why interpretations of history have become so contentious and the findings at Keeladi.

Jahnavi Sen

Watch Ashok in conversation with The Wire’s Jahnavi Sen about her research, why interpretations of history have become so contentious and the findings at Keeladi.

Journalist and author Sowmiya Ashok’s new book, The Dig: Keeladi and the Politics of India’s Past, looks into the study of archaeology and history not just at that particular site but in today’s India as a whole, ranging from the methods used and the wide spectrum of people involved to the interpretations that can be both scientific and socio-cultural. She speaks to The Wire’s Jahnavi Sen about her research, why interpretations of history have become so contentious, and the findings at Keeladi.

This article went live on February nineteenth, two thousand twenty six, at fifty-four minutes past eleven in the morning.

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