| First |
Tabish Khair |
Negotiating India and Islam: The Modernity of Ahmed Ali |
25 Feb 2008 |
| Second |
U R Ananthamurthy |
Some Personal Reflections of an Indian Bhasha Writer |
31 Oct 2008 |
| Third |
Aruna Chakravorty |
Becoming a Translator: A Journey |
30 Oct 2009 |
| Fourth |
Shamsur Rehman Farooqi |
The Truth of Fictions |
23 Feb 2011 |
| Fifth |
G J V Prasad |
The language of Multiple Tongues: Englihs in India |
1 March 2011 |
| Sixth |
Harish Trivedi |
Ahmed Ali and British Censorship |
13 March 2013 |
| Seventh |
Mukul Kesavan |
Novel, Cricket and the Nation |
21 March 2014 |
| Eighth |
Alok Bhalla |
Silence, Sympathy and Violence |
9 March 2015 |
| Ninth |
Rajdeep Sardesai |
Confluences of Fact and Fiction |
18 Feb 2016 |
| Tenth |
Irfan Habib |
Greece and India: Reconstructing our Intellectual Past |
29 March 2017 |
| Eleventh |
Qazi Afzal Husain |
Urdu Literature and Criticism |
13 March 2018 |
| Twelfth |
Shahid Amin |
A Learned Clerk in the Colonial Archive: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaibe and the Linguistics Survey of India |
28 Feb 2019 |
| Thirteenth |
Amit Chaudhari |
The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and the Rationalist Tradition in India Today |
4 March 2020 |
| Fourteenth |
Faisal Devji |
Losing the Present to History |
22 Feb 2022 |
| Fifteenth |
Vivek Chibber |
The Flight from Materialism |
11 January 2023 |
| Sixteenth |
Ananya Jahanara Kabir |
Men and Rivers, Revisited: Humayun Kabir’s India, Bengal and Islam |
22 December 2023 |
| Seventeenth |
Kapil Kapoor |
What is Indian Knowledge System? |
26 March 2025 |
