The Ratan Tata, Barkha Dutt & Other Tapes

Recordings of conversations with the likes of Ratan Tata, Ranjan Bhattacharya, Barkha Dutt, Shankar Aiyar, Sunil Arora etc

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Heterotopia

A world within a world is running out of time. But the voices of McCluskieganj’s past continue to resonate within its ruins, even as development takes over

Chinki Sinha
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The Future Of Anglo-Indians In India

Where are Anglo-Indians, as a community, heading? What does the future hold for them? Will they be around or would they be relegated to the pages of history books?

Harry Maclure

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Updated: 03 Feb 2022 10:44 pm

Please allow a few seconds to elapse before the recordings begin. The file names have not been changed by us and have the date and time embedded in them -- this 20090611-155759 suggests. Please note that we have not been able to transcribe most of these conversations and will be adding more and more of the transcripts as we are able to have them typed up. So listen to the tapes for the full conversations and read the incomplete transcriptions only as pointers:

Ratan Tata:

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Ranjan Bhattacharya:

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Labelling error -- this recording appears actually to be Ranjan Bhattacharya speaking about appointment of Raja

Shankar Aiyar (then with India Today Group)