Tag: journalism
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Episode 23: What Women Want: Understanding The Female Voter in Modern India- In conversation with Ruhi Tewari
In the long history of post-Independence India, the woman voter was invisible, rarely spoken about and almost never listened to. But today, something has changed. Women are voting in greater numbers than ever before, making independent choices and holding politicians accountable. Journalist Ruhi Tewari draws on two decades of travelling across various states in India,…
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Episode 21: Faith and Fury: COVID Dispatches from India’s Hinterlands- In conversation with Jyoti Yadav
In this episode of Navigating India, released on March 22nd, 2026, exactly six years after India observed the Janta Curfew, an initiative by the Government of India to combat COVID, we are joined by journalist Jyoti Yadav to discuss her book ‘Faith and Fury: Covid Dispatches from India’s Hinterlands’. While much of India locked itself…
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Episode 11: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India
On September 5, 2017, activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot in front of her house in the city of Bengaluru. In January 2025, the last of the accused in her murder case was granted bail. No one has been convicted in this case yet. Gauri Lankesh was the editor of ‘Gauri Lankesh Patrike’, a…