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Episode 72 August 23, 2022

Imran Khan has turned against his 2018 benefactors (23 Aug)Subscriber Only

Against this complex background, the move to slap Khan with a terrorism charge, perhaps to be followed by an arrest, may end up making a political martyr of him, especially if the dots connect to...

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Episode 71 August 22, 2022

Snags that have riddled CUET must be quickly corrected (22 Aug)Subscriber Only

With an aspirant being allowed to appear in up to nine papers, resulting in more than 50,000 subject combinations, the CUET — conducted in more than 550 cities in the country and 13 foreign centres...

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Episode 70 August 22, 2022

Discom finances slip and threaten to disrupt the power sector (22 Aug)Subscriber Only

Improving the financial position of discoms will require timely and adequate tariff revisions and bringing down the aggregate technical and commercial losses, among other measures.

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Episode 69 August 22, 2022

Handwringing over the scarcity of umpires in India has led to short-lived experiments by BCCI (18 August)Subscriber Only

The BCCI is now conducting exams with tough questions that test their practical aptitude to see if they can find genuinely good umpires. But for now, the uncertainty continues.

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Episode 68 August 22, 2022

The Oscars has finally apologised for its treatment of a Native American actor in 1973 (18 August)Subscriber Only

The long overdue mea culpa to Littlefeather, however, feels like an afterthought, considering how little Hollywood has done in the intervening years to address the specific problem that she sought to highlight.

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Episode 67 August 22, 2022

Solution to India’s jobs problem is regulating private sector while protecting rights of workers (18 August)Subscriber Only

India has been experiencing persistently high levels of joblessness for the past few years. Despite a high rate of growth, last year was no different.

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Episode 66 August 22, 2022

A bristling and vexed agenda awaits next CJI, Justice UU Lalit (18 August)Subscriber Only

Although Justice Lalit has a short tenure of 74 days, he has said he would use the opportunity to lay down “healthy practices” for the future.

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Episode 65 August 22, 2022

Docking of Chinese vessel at Hambantota should spur more strategic thinking in Delhi (17 August)Subscriber Only

Facing arguably its worst economic crisis, Sri Lanka needs China more than ever. The country needs an IMF loan to see it through these times and such a deal is only possible if its major...

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Episode 64 August 22, 2022

Indian football has a deep-rooted governance problem (17 August)Subscriber Only

For months, the government, judiciary and administrators have been trying to work out a formula, including drafting of strict rules, to improve the governance of the AIFF.

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Episode 63 August 22, 2022

Remission of life sentence to Bilkis Bano’s attackers is a travesty and betrayal (17 August)Subscriber Only

Bilkis Bano and her extended family were attacked by a mob on March 3, 2002 while they were fleeing their village in Limkheda taluka of Dahod district. The Supreme Court intervened in the case after...

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Episode 62 August 17, 2022

The Ideas Day (16 August)Subscriber Only

By linking Nari Shakti to national progress, roots to scaling heights, PM Modi enlivens the idea of aspiration. In his Independence Day speech from Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a long and large...

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Episode 61 August 17, 2022

Death by inequality (16 August)Subscriber Only

From the lack of enabling measures that force thousands of SC &ST students to drop out of institutions of learning every year to the persecution that can drive a young scholar like Rohith Vemula to...

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Episode 60 August 17, 2022

He bet on India, won (16 August)Subscriber Only

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala created an ecosystem where investors (both domestic and foreign) have learnt to trust and lend to Indian companies and entrepreneurs. That is his lasting legacy.

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Episode 59 August 15, 2022

Women will shape the future of India, let’s listen to what they have to say (15 August)Subscriber Only

Women will shape the future of India, let’s listen to what they have to say — beginning today. India’s women dream for the nation and, to borrow the words of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru,...

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Episode 58 August 15, 2022

Sustained engagement with NATO must be an important part of Delhi’s self-assured strategy of multi-alignment (12 August)Subscriber Only

Sustained engagement with NATO must be an important part of Delhi’s self-assured strategy of multi-alignment. As India rises as a large economy its geopolitical salience as a swing state among the great powers is growing.

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Episode 57 August 15, 2022

Election monitor does well to refrain from stepping into debate on freebies (12 August)Subscriber Only

Ultimately, the voters need to judge the economic and fiscal implications of such policies. While a wider conversation on this issue is needed, it needs to be located firmly in the political process.

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Episode 56 August 12, 2022

Kim Jong-un has defeated Covid by renaming the infected ‘fever patients’ (12 August)Subscriber Only

Kim isn’t the only leader to have declared premature victory against the “malignant pandemic disease”. Strongmen, democratically elected or otherwise, have taken the pulpit and claimed they had vanquished the microscopic enemy as early as...

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Episode 55 August 11, 2022

Issey Miyake believed couture could also be accessible and functional (11 Aug)Subscriber Only

Witnessing the 1968 student riots in Paris shaped Miyake’s ideas about fashion. He was working with the legendary couturier Hubert de Givenchy at the time, and grew disenchanted with making clothes for a privileged few.

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Episode 54 August 11, 2022

Inflation triggered by supply-side shocks is declining (11 Aug)Subscriber Only

Today’s situation is far less grim than in March, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and when the FAO’s food price index hit an all-time high. Back home, if the monsoon delivers reasonably, as it has,...

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Episode 53 August 11, 2022

Bihar break-up underlines a new predicament for BJP (11 Aug)Subscriber Only

Increasingly, regional outfits seem wary of the BJP’s aggressive and ambitious expansion plans and fear that the latter could ignore the coalition dharma and even break or swallow smaller groups to further its political goals.

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Episode 52 August 10, 2022

At CWG, India’s track and field athletes made a mark (10 August)Subscriber Only

For India, the Commonwealth Games give a chance to assess how they are likely to fare when tougher assignments come along.

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Episode 51 August 10, 2022

Olivia Newton-John lives on through her legacy as Sandy from Grease (10 August)Subscriber Only

Olivia Newton-John was a singer, Hollywood star and cancer activist. For her fans, though, she’ll always be the girl from Grease.

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Episode 50 August 9, 2022

Centre-states relation is at a critical juncture (9 Aug)Subscriber Only

While the ruling dispensation repeatedly declares its commitment to cooperative federalism, it is hard to dispute the notion that increasing political centralisation over the years has widened and deepened the faultlines in Centre-state relations.

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Episode 49 August 9, 2022

Loss of smell and taste, the after-effects of Covid-19 (9 Aug)Subscriber Only

According to research published in the BMJ last month, about 5 per cent of adults infected by the Coronavirus could develop long-term changes to not just their sense of smell, but also taste, as the...

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Episode 48 August 9, 2022

Glitch in SSLV-DI is a setback for ISRO but there is hope (9 Aug)Subscriber Only

The SSLV-DI was touted as a competition to small satellite launchers developed by US-based private companies such as SpaceX and Rocket Lab.

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