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As Tariq Thachil prepares to step down as Director of CASI on June 30th, please view his reflections on the past five years!
INDIA IN TRANSITION
CASI Deep Dive: Swapna Kona Nayudu on Non-Alignment as Civil Disobedience and Nehru’s Blind Spots
Swapna Kona Nayudu & Rohan Venkat
June 23, 2025
In this issue of India in Transition, CASI Managing Editor Rohan Venkat speaks to Swapna Kona Nayudu (Yale-NUS College) about her motivations in tackling Jawaharlal Nehru and non-alignment, the lack of a “Nehru studies,” the idea of non-alignment as a form of civil disobedience, and the former Indian prime minister’s blindness to race.
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