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  • Is the revision of electoral rolls in Bihar too intensive?
    Jul 9 2025

    There has been a lot of opposition to the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls from opposition parties and there are multiple petitions against it in the Supreme Court.


    One of the petitioners, Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), explains why they have opposed the Election Commission's drive and the many problems they see in this initiative.

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    37 min
  • Top Maoist leader killed, will India meet its 2026 'deadline'?
    Jun 1 2025

    Author and security analyst Sudeep Chakravarti - a long-time observer of the Maoist rebellion - explains what the Indian state really needs to do to end Maoism completely.

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    42 min
  • When caste data is there but isn't released
    May 23 2025

    Even as the central government plans to conduct a caste census across the country, Karnataka has data on the socio-economic data of backward castes in the states for nearly a decade that it hasn't released fully.


    Political analyst and author Sugata Srinivasaraju explains the partial release of data and why the state may have inspired caste-based reservations in India in the past, it hasn't done very well with the current survey's data.

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    29 min
  • Why India and Pakistan can claim victory after Operation Sindoor
    May 14 2025

    Strategic affairs analyst Manoj Joshi decodes the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, how much both sides gained and lost with Operation Sindoor, the role the US played, China's role in the conflict and what it means for the future of ties between the two nations.

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    22 min
  • What will decide how high India-Pakistan tensions go after Operation Sindoor
    May 8 2025

    Commodore (retd) C Uday Bhaskar, director of think-tank Society for Policy Studies, talks about the significance of Operation Sindoor, what will decide how high tensions go between India and Pakistan and which country will decide if Pakistan escalates things.

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    22 min
  • Climate movement's mistake, Donald Trump's 2009 reality and Indians writing from World War 1
    Jan 20 2025

    A conversation with Amitav Ghosh, after the release of his latest book Wild Fictions, in which he tells us about the turning point for him as a writer and more

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    40 min
  • What a Maha win means for BJP in the state and country
    Dec 4 2024

    Suhas Palshikar, co-director of electoral think-tank Lokniti and an eminent political scientist, explains what this Maharashtra electoral verdict means for the future of opposition parties and why the BJP would want to get rid of its allies in the state.

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    26 min
  • Ideas before their time
    Nov 1 2024

    Eminent historian and author Ramchandra Guha talks about his latest book 'Speaking with Nature' about individuals who could be called India's first environmentalists, documenting noble failures, and whether environmentalists are destined to be ignored.

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    32 min