Most Indians know more about USA and Europe than our northern neighbour China. This two-part series on The Pragati Podcast will bust myths about China and the Chinese government.
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#MeToo is the most important cultural moment of our lifetimes. Supriya Nair and Nikita Saxena join Amit Varma in episode 90 of The Seen and the Unseen to share their insights.
इस साल के शुरू होते ही अमरीकी राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्प ने एक ट्वीट में उत्तर कोरिया को चेताया था कि अमरीका के परमाणु हथियार उत्तर कोरिया के मुक़ाबले कई ज़्यादा प्रभावशाली है | इस एक ट्वीट से ही सारी दुनिया काँप गयी थी |
How do you do good journalism online? How do you keep opinion and reportage separate? How do you report live on active humanitarian disasters like the Kerala Floods of 2018?
Are journalists redundant in a world where no one cares about facts any more? Are we to cater to people's imagined realities? And when money and power come together, how are Independent journalists to resist? Sidharth Bhatia of The Wire and Peter Griffin of The Hindu join Amit Varma in episode 89 of The Seen and the Unseen.
Rahul Matthan and Manasa Venkataraman unpack the Supreme Court's judgements on Aadhaar. In Episode 64, The Pragati Podcast delves deep into the 1448-page, 6.5-lakh-word set of judgments.
The lives of women in India must be gradually getting better, right? How do we measure this? Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan join Amit Varma in episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss a range of possible metrics.
भारतीय लोकतंत्र में एक सांसद का रोल क्या है? हमारी पार्लिमेंट और राज्य विधान सभाओं को और प्रभावशाली कैसे बनाया जाए? हमें सांसदों के बढ़ते वेतनभत्ते से कितना चिंतित होना चाहिए?
There are restaurants at every corner in a city like Bangalore, but they are never easy to run. Chef extraordinaire Manu Chandra and Pragati's own Madhu Menon join host Pavan Srinath to discuss the government's arcane laws around restaurants.
India has entered a massive jobs crisis, with more than a million people coming into the workforce every month -- and not enough jobs. Will our Demographic Dividend be a Demographic Disaster? Yazad Jal of the 20 Million Jobs project joins Amit Varma in episode 87 of The Seen and the Unseen to give insight on the scale of the problem.
How did a peaceful protest turn into a multi-sided war that has killed half a million people and displaced more than 10 million Syrians?
India's agricultural crisis has been caused by the state. Farmer leader Gunvant Patil of the Shetkari Sanghatana joins Amit Varma in episode 86 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain the many ways in which Big Government has created our agricultural crisis.
टर्की और अमरीका के बीच शुरू हुई यह आंधी भारत तक पहुँची कैसे? भारतीय सरकार और रिज़र्व बैंक रुपये में आयी गिरावट से उभरने के लिए कितने सक्षम है ?
Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj joins Pavan Srinath and guest host Dr Shambhavi Naik on Episode 61 of the Pragati Podcast to talk about all things India, genes, history and health challenges.
Episode 85 of The Seen and the Unseen is about Demonetisation -- and a lot else. First, host Amit Varma launches into an angry monologue about how economic benefits can never justify moral costs. Then he is joined by economist Shruti Rajagopalan, who elaborates on all the things wrong with DeMon. They discuss the predatory Indian state, how Indians are forced into jugaad to cope with it, and that...
How do actions by President Erdoğan in Turkey affect the Indian rupee? What is the emerging market crisis that business channels keep talking about?
What is it like to grow up gay in a deeply homophobic country? Writer and stand-up comedian Navin Noronha joins Amit Varma in ep 84 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about his experience growing up gay in Bhayandar, and his insights from his podcast, Keeping it Queer.
नवजोत सिंह सिद्धू की झप्पी ने बड़ा बवाल उठा दिया भारत में | तो इस बार की पुलियाबाज़ी पाकिस्तान के मिलिट्री-जिहादी कॉम्प्लेक्स पर | ऐसा क्यों कि भारत-पाकिस्तान के रिश्ते सुधारने की कोई कोशिश के शुरू होते ही आतंकवादी हमले उस प्रक्रिया को विफल कर देते हैं?
It's been almost two years since Donald Trump was elected the President of the United States of America. What has happened to the Washington DC ecosystem since then? In Episode 59 of The Pragati Podcast, Soren Dayton joins hosts Hamsini Hariharan and Pavan Srinath.
India is a young country, and young Indians today are entitled and angry. Snigdha Poonam joins Amit Varma in episode 83 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the turmoil in small-town India.