Podcasts
Yeah Nah Pasaran! (Australian radio show about fascism, speaking on Hindutva), March 2024. here
New Books interview on Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule. March 2023, here
Sensing the Sacred Podcast on “Sanskrit, Indo-Muslim History, and Twitter,” July 2021, here
Also check out excerpts of Sensing the Sacred, plus a discussion in Trending Globally’s “Hindu Nationalism, Contested Histories, and Challenging the Fascism Blueprint,” July 2021, here
Brown History podcast on Aurangzeb, January 2021, here
New Books interview on Aurangzeb, September 2020, here
Take Me to Coffee (mentorship podcast), September 2019, here
Globely News’s “Narendra Modi’s Dark Vision of a New India,” May 2019, here
BBC’s When Greeks Flew Kites (episode on Fake History), May 2019, here
New Books interview on Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court, April 2017, here
Select Interviews
“Narendra Modi and Hindu nationalism: This Rutgers expert weighs in,” Bergen Record, July 2023. here
Profiled by Rowaida Abdelaziz, "Far-Right Hindu Nationalism Is Gaining Ground In The U.S." Huffington Post, October 2022. here
Interview in Frontline on languages and nationalism in India, June 3, 2022. here
‘Targeted by hate’: Audrey Truschke on why she helped write a ‘Hindutva Harassment Field Manual’, Scroll.in, July 10, 2021. here
Long-form Interview: Audrey Truschke on Sanskrit histories of the Mughal era and Hindutva trolls, Scroll.in, March 2021. here
‘I am not alone in refusing to sway with the Indian political winds’, interview with Zia us Salam, Frontline, March 2021. here
‘Love Jihad’ and the Mughals: History and Propaganda, in conversation with Mukulika R, Indian Cultural Forum, December 2020. here
In conversation with Souradeep Roy and Ishita Mehta, Indian Cultural Forum, August 2018. part 1 and part 2 (video interview)
‘The space for dissent has shrunk in India.’ Live Mint, August 14, 2018. here
‘The Historian Who Engages.’ Live Mint, October 14, 2017. here
‘They want to treat Aurangzeb as a political football.’ Frontline, March 17, 2017. here
‘Aurangzeb is a severely misunderstood figure.’ The Hindu, September 14, 2015. here
Select Recorded Lectures
“Hindu Supremacists in a White World,” October 2022, Rutgers University, Newark, part of Sawyer Seminar on Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City, here
Panelist for Congressional Briefing: Hindu Supremacist Attacks on Academic Freedom, September 2021, here
“Hindutva History and Other Modern Problems with the Indian Past,” Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, March 2021, here
Panelist on “Passion and Plurality II: Intersections of Language and Culture Across Centuries,” Bangalore International Centre and Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, February 2021, here
“History Before Us: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule,” Aligarh Society of History and Archaeology and Ganga Jamuni Foundation, January 2021, here
"Empathy, Facts, and Violence in Narrating Indo-Muslim History,” Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies and South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, November 2020, here
Aurangzeb talk, The Hindu Lit for Life, Chennai, January 2019, here