Culture & Society

Indology in Russia: Then and Now: A Conversation with Indologist Svetlana Ryzhakova

SvetlanaRyzhakova is no newcomer to India. An ethnographer and a cultural anthropologist, she is a leading research fellow at the Centre of Asian and Pacific Studies in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Fluently speaking English and other languages, she is one of the Indologists of today’s Russia. Proficient in Kathak she also running an Indian Anthropological Cinema club for an Indian Embassy in Moscow. A frequent visitor to India, on her current trip to the country she spoke to International Affairs Review about the state of Indian studies in Russia today: