INTERVIEWS
Interview: All Crimes are Crimes against the State: Kalpana Kannabiran, Live Mint, 20 June 2014
Interview: I don’t see what is happening in universities as separate from the political arena. Interviewed by Jessica Bowers, LSE.
Interview: “We underestimate the power of majoritarian dominance.” Bar & Bench, 20 May 2018.
https://www.barandbench.com/interviews/conversation-kalpana-kannabiran
Interview: The Speaking Constitution: Interviewed by Jelsyna Chacko, 6 March 2023.
https://www.barandbench.com/topic/the-speaking-constitution
CONVERSATIONS
For Lives Lived in Labour: A conversation with Kancha Ilaiah, 28 October 2017.
https://www.thehindu.com/society/kancha-ilaiah-for-lives-lived-in-labour/article19931159.ece
They Cannot Stop me from Teaching Marx and Ambedkar: A conversation with K. Satyanarayana, 7 September 2018
Commonwealth People's Forum, London 16 April 2018. Panel on Institutional Racism
https://shows.acast.com/commonwealthvoices/episodes/institutionalracism
The Annual Radha Devi Joshi Foundation Lecture, 5 March, 2021. Asian & Asian American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut. "Insurgent Realisms and Ideas of Justice in India: Imagining the ‘Corruption Complex’ Through Law and Literature."
https://youtu.be/Uf7HaHm62uU?si=iKtnP5il1FIlNJwH
With Kancha Ilaiah and Bezwada Wilson
BOOK DISCUSSIONS/LITERATURE FESTIVALS
No Country for Women: Some Truths about Rape, Hindu Lit for Life, 13 March 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqYXxDaCkg
Violence Studies – with V. Geetha and Abdul Shaban, 15 October 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJKgD2lZtVQ
In conversation With Nandita Haksar – Hyderabad Literary Festival, 27 January 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehQI-eGfPY
Understanding Violence – In conversation with Kalpana Sharma and Raheel Dhattiwala, Hyderabad Literary Festival, 26 January 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3mC3sWlVM0
Law, Justice and Human Rights in India – Hyderabad Literary Festival, with Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, 5 November 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyrJ84xkf4
Women, Incarcerated – Hyderabad Literary Festival, with editors Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta, 3 September 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chTegkW2OQs
The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law, with Volga and Kondandram, Hyderabad Literary Festival, 28 January 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqYXxDaCkg
The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law, with Nitu Kumari, Vidarbha Literary Festival, Nagpur, 4 February 2023.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcVU3m5E8hon
Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour. Book Discussion. Conversations on Social Reproduction seminar series. King’s College London, 13 December 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNqcfdXZNdg
Values of the Indian Constitution, Ajay Gandhi Memorial Valedictory, Hyderabad Literary Festival, 26th January, 2025. In conversation with Rajmohan Gandhi and Harsh Mander
K.G. KANNABIRAN LECTURES ON LAW, JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The first video series of its kind in India – presented every Monday between 9th November 2020 and 1st February 2021 and published by Livelaw – were delivered by lawyers, legal scholars and judges who knew civil liberties advocate K.G. Kannabiran (1929-2010) personally and worked with him on cases, campaigns and tribunals, to remember their collaborations with him. The lectures, archived in a dedicated YouTube channel, reflect on future pathways of this important slice of the history of lawyering for human rights and civil liberties, and the legal profession — rooted in the Indian experience.
B. Sudershan Reddy * B. Nalin Kumar * Mihir Desai * Nitya Ramakrishnan * Usha Ramanathan * K. Chandru * B. B. Mohan * V. Raghu * J. Chelameswar * Colin Gonsalves * Henri Tiphagne * K. Jithendra Babu * Z.M. Yacoob * Upendra Baxi
KG Kannabiran, Civil Liberties Advocate
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The Advocate (2007), documentary film on K.G. Kannabiran,
D & N Productions. Direction: Deepa Dhanraj; Cinematography: Navroze Contractor; Editor: Jabeen Merchant; Producer: Kalpana Kannabiran.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLEfx-3S8lat9dlocUXs5-dkNAeAZJ0FpM
Schooling in Nallamalla (a documentary film on schooling for forest dwelling indigenous Chenchu children - English and Telugu). Anchored by Kalpana Kannabiran. Produced by Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAsIGs6semc (English Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irpVWFc2ST0&t=75s (English Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty8ww2akUk&t=128s (Telugu Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpqwtiuNLtQ&t=27s (Telugu Part 2)
Chenchu elder Thokala Mallaiah, one of Christoph Haimendorf’s key informants on study of Chenchus.