Alka Kurian interviews Pulitzer Prize winner, leads South Asian film events
In December 2020, IAS faculty member Alka Kurian interviewed the Pulitzer Prize winner poet Vijay Seshadri for the . In November 2020, Kurian was a panelist for the “,” “,” “,” and “,” panels at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal.
In October 2020 Kurian gave virtual lectures on “Youth, Gender, and Human Rights in India” at the Foreign Service Institute and a virtual guest lecture on Bliss (Mutluluk) for the Human Rights Cinema course, University of Massachusetts, Boston. In the same month, Kurian also moderated a virtual masterclass with India's leading actress and filmmaker for (Coalition of South Asian Film Festivals) and organized a virtual symposium entitled “” for Tasveer. This was followed by a virtual panel “.” that she moderated for TSAL (Tasveer South Asian Literary Festival).
Kurian continues to post interviews on her podcast , which now has 15 episodes.