'Searching for Ashoka' by Nayanjot Lahiri - Part 1

“I found myself going back to the different ways in which Ashoka was remembered and trying to understand how memories of him had been accumulating and eroding like the slabs of rocks on which he had left his words. I then decided to combine this with the fun and feel of his forms in Thailand, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.” - Nayanjot Lahiri for Sarmaya Talks
Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian, archaeologist, author and Professor of History at Ashoka University. Among the many influential books she has published on ancient Indian history, empires and archaeology is 'Ashoka in Ancient India', which won the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History 2016 from the American Historical Association.
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This event took place on 23 Apr, 2023 at Durbar Hall, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Fort, Mumbai.

[@adehmark]

Great lecture. Thank you.

[@unnaamit4242]

Thanks

[@RahulYadav-oz6it]

Ashok ashtami is closely followed by Ram navami every year.. Can Ramayana be an Anti Ashoka literature ?

[@lokeshraybarman7007]

37:29 the lady is sleeping 😂😂

[@richardforster5394]

Just resting her eyes, yaar!

[@mpramarao57]

Madam, stop your presentation on Brutal Murderer Ashoka.

[@energylinesavtech4397]

Sir THE GREAT ASHOKA being kept and worshipped by each and every BHARATIYA INDIAN as the ASHOKA STAMBHA ASHOKA PILLARS are on CURRENCY notes so salute him JAI HIND BHARAT MATA KI JAY JAY ASHOKA VANDE MATARAM JAI GAUTAM BUDDHA

[@mpramarao57]

​@@energylinesavtech4397ji The leftist eco system had fabricated so many stories about him and we were taught and brainwashed that Ashoka had renounced "Himsa" and started practicing and preaching AHIMSA, after the Kalinga war ,where he had killed Kalinga soldiers in Lakhs. But the fact is that after embarassing "Boudha ideology, and after 5 years, he had invaded Kalinga during that war, he had inflicted the Lakhs of soldiers death. Having the Pillar &; emblem on as signs, was created once again by leftist who were in ruling under the disguse of the Congress.