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Episode 97 September 7, 2022

Targeting of Arshdeep Singh: Cricketers and haters (7 September)Subscriber Only

Campaign against Arshdeep Singh for a slip-up on the field is reprehensible, goes against letter and spirit of the game.

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Episode 96 September 6, 2022

The Carnatic maestro: T V Sankaranarayanan (6 September)Subscriber Only

TV Sankaranarayanan epitomised the classical grandeur of the Madurai Mani Iyer school.

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Episode 95 September 6, 2022

PM Sheikh Hasina in India (6 September)Subscriber Only

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina's supporters and opponents back home will be tracking her India visit to see if it makes headway on Teesta water-sharing.

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Episode 94 September 6, 2022

Sitharaman and Dubey’s run-ins with bureaucrats draw unflattering attention (6 September)Subscriber Only

Charging an official with sedition for what appears to be a legitimate complaint against an MP, or pulling up an officer in an Opposition-ruled state for not toeing the Centre’s political line, flies in the...

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Episode 93 September 5, 2022

Congress should make presidential elections’ electoral rolls public (5 September)Subscriber Only

Leaders such as Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari, Prithviraj Chavan and Pradyut Bordoloi, some of them potential candidates, insist that making the rolls public is an essential step to ensuring transparency in the election process.

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Episode 92 September 5, 2022

In a post-pandemic classroom, students will require individual attention (5 September)Subscriber Only

The last two decades have seen an explosion of aspirations and a manifold rise in the demand for education, but the country’s education system has not kept pace with this social reality.

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Episode 91 September 1, 2022

A CEO’s advice to young workers to put in 18-hour days sounds ill-fitting and out of step (1 September)Subscriber Only

Among the problems highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic was that of excessively demanding workplaces and burnout.

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Episode 90 September 1, 2022

Gorbachev legacy of all-round change in the Soviet Union (31 August)Subscriber Only

Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of Mikhail Gorbachev’s presumed triumphs have turned out to be ephemeral.

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Episode 89 September 1, 2022

Cameras show entitlement and boorishness in Gurgaon and Noida highrises (31 August)Subscriber Only

It is easy to get swayed by the current of justifiable outrage at the reprehensible behaviour displayed in the videos.

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Episode 88 September 1, 2022

Floods in Pakistan bear similarities to those in India, it’s time to work together (31 August)Subscriber Only

Floods in Pakistan bear similarities to those in India. It’s time for a collaborative mechanism to deal with extreme weather events

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Episode 87 August 30, 2022

Demolition Day (30 August)Subscriber Only

As Supertech towers crashed down, a mass of private tragedies became a public spectacle. At the Supertech demolition site, it was easy to forget, perhaps, that the two towers were once the brick-and-mortar embodiment of...

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Episode 86 August 30, 2022

Change of guard (30 August)Subscriber Only

Challenge for new CPM secretary M V Govindan in Kerala: To hone and amplify party’s voice in its last citadel. Kerala is the last citadel of the CPM, the only state in India where left...

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Episode 85 August 30, 2022

Tighter still (30 August)Subscriber Only

US Fed signals more rate hikes ahead: As global macroeconomic environment becomes more uncertain, RBI must tread carefully. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed would “use our tools forcefully” to tackle inflation

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Episode 84 August 29, 2022

Rocking the ship (29 August)Subscriber Only

India-China war of words shows Beijing in poor light — for trying to pull into its tensions with US a country struggling to survive. If Beijing is really a steadfast friend of Sri Lanka, the...

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Episode 83 August 29, 2022

On shaky ground (29 August)Subscriber Only

Jharkhand’s CM Soren has invited serious allegations of misuse of office that do disservice to his office and state. There can be little doubt that Hemant Soren has severely undermined his position as Jharkhand CM....

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Episode 82 August 26, 2022

Minding your accents (26 August)Subscriber Only

What the software to erase accents of call centre employees for convenience of US and UK customers gets wrong

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Episode 81 August 26, 2022

Finland PM’s ‘partygate’ episode frames larger issues and blurred lines (26 August)Subscriber Only

Sanna Marin has now apologised — she had also issued an apology for a visit to a club in December 2021 after being exposed to a Covid-positive person.

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Episode 80 August 26, 2022

CJI Ramana’s legacy has high points for his successor to build on (26 August)Subscriber Only

Thursday was a crowded day but CJI Ramana’s tenure has also been marked by what might have been.

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Episode 79 August 26, 2022

Brazil President Bolsonaro holds out threat of not accepting electoral verdict (25 August)Subscriber Only

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro — like Donald Trump, who he seems to have styled himself after – has been described as a “strongman”.

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Episode 78 August 26, 2022

Arif Mohammed Khan’s outburst against Irfan Habib lowers dignity of his office (25 August)Subscriber Only

Of course, Arif Mohammed Khan is far from being the first incumbent of a Raj Bhawan to court controversy.

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Episode 77 August 26, 2022

Nitish and Tejashwi are in charge — and under watch (25 August)Subscriber Only

To begin with, the JD(U)-RJD coalition will need to find a brand new internal equilibrium, one that includes the arithmetic but also goes beyond it

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Episode 76 August 24, 2022

Acreage deficit in rice points to need to monitor crop status, production, stocks (24 August)Subscriber Only

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana — where rice yields average 4-4.5 tonnes per hectare —have been reporting a disease resulting in stunting of paddy. This “dwarfing” disease can potentially impact production in the most productive...

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Episode 75 August 24, 2022

Allying with civil society, Congress is acting like an NGO (24 Aug)Subscriber Only

In government, as the UPA, Congress was once accused of outsourcing policy to unelected and unaccountable civil society groups in the National Advisory Council. Now, as the party of the Opposition, Congress is trying to...

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Episode 74 August 24, 2022

Nayyara Noor’s gentle voice and old-world charm (23 August)Subscriber Only

Noor never sang in the thick or robust or nasal voice that was then in fashion. She did not embellish her songs with many classical elements either. She was averse to complicated taans used by...

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Episode 73 August 23, 2022

More women are making a career in science (23 Aug)Subscriber Only

While the social sciences and humanities still register a larger presence of women researchers, numbers have increased appreciably in the sciences as well. Health sciences is now pegged at 24.5 per cent, natural sciences and...

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