In the second episode of #Bookmarked, Deepak Vamsi Rajavarapu, Deputy Manager, PR and Communications at Ashoka University and a Young India Fellow (2019) is in conversation with Professor Nayanjot Lahiri about her latest book "Searching for Ashoka - Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand".
Nayanjot Lahiri is a historian and archaeologist of ancient India and a professor of history at Ashoka University since 2016. An awardee of the Infosys Prize in Humanities – Archaeology for 2013, Prof. Lahiri has also authored several scholarly reads, one of which titled “Ashoka in Ancient India”, was awarded the John F. Richards Prize, 2015.
She has been a faculty at Hindu College, and at the Department of History (DU) till 2015 and has also served as Dean of Colleges and International Relations at DU. An awardee of the Infosys Prize in Humanities – Archaeology for 2013, Prof. Lahiri has also authored several scholarly reads, one of which titled “Ashoka in Ancient India”, was awarded the John F. Richards Prize, 2015.