NEW YORK, May 4, 2019 — As right-wing politics and vigilantism continues to rise in South Asia, what are the implications for free speech and freedom of expression? India and Pakistan, with a shared past and an increasingly similar present, are important cases to highlight the dangers of extremism to free speech and scholarship. MacArthur Fellow and Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University Ayesha Jalal discusses with author, historian, and Mircea Elide Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions Wendy Doniger in a conversation moderated by Columbia University Associate Professor of History Manan Ahmed. (42 min., 51 sec.)