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An audio series where we make complex issues easy, explain events and concepts in politics, economy and a lot more.

Episode Date
Can China weaponise Brahmaputra waters against India?
Jun 03, 2025
Covid-19 surge: Should we be worried?
Jun 02, 2025
The Breakup: Trump-Musk bromance ends with latter’s DOGE exit?
May 29, 2025
4th largest economy - How did India get here, and what will it take to become no.1?
May 28, 2025
Trump vs Harvard: How it impacts Indian students in the crossfire
May 23, 2025
Diplomacy or display? Tharoor, terror, and the politics of national unity
May 23, 2025
Influencer, vlogger, spy? The curious case of Jyoti Malhotra
May 20, 2025
Calling the bluff: How India is exposing Pakistan’s nuclear blackmail
May 16, 2025
Drones, diplomacy, and a diplomatic u-turn: India-Turkey ties on the edge
May 14, 2025
Why did the IMF release $2.4 billion to Pakistan despite India’s objections?
May 13, 2025
Operation Sindoor: The 25 minutes that shook Pakistan
May 07, 2025
Justice for Pahalgam: When will India strike back at Pakistan? Why is it taking time?
May 06, 2025
Counting caste: Why India's next census could change everything
May 05, 2025
Why India’s water strike has Pakistan rattled
Apr 30, 2025
Kashmir terror attack: How will Indian govt serve justice in the valley?
Apr 23, 2025
Pope Francis, his Legacy, and what comes next
Apr 22, 2025
What JD Vance’s visit means for India
Apr 22, 2025
AI for the soul: Is India’s growing reliance on digital companions safe?
Apr 21, 2025
Trump tariffs: How India can survive the new global trade war
Apr 15, 2025
From Ghibli avatars to fake IDs: Is AI getting out of hand?
Apr 10, 2025
Justice has a long memory: What's next for Tahawwur Rana?
Apr 10, 2025
Waqf Amendment Bill 2024 explained
Apr 04, 2025
The fall of 'Yeshu Yeshu' prophet Bajinder Singh
Apr 04, 2025
Kunal Kamra: Comedy, copyright & controversy
Mar 29, 2025
Signal failure: A White House chat gone wrong
Mar 27, 2025
Who's behind Karnataka's honey-trap scandal?
Mar 24, 2025
Who will be BJP's next President?
Mar 21, 2025
The rupee row: DMK’s latest plot twist in the language war
Mar 17, 2025
Syria's future under HTS: Ceasefire, Kurdish forces, and global reactions
Mar 13, 2025
Canada's new PM, Mark Carney
Mar 13, 2025
Trump’s Ukraine aid pause: What it means for the war and Kyiv’s future
Mar 07, 2025
Tamil Nadu vs Hindi: The NEP 2020 flashpoint
Mar 04, 2025
Rohit Sharma, fat-shaming and the politics of cricket
Mar 04, 2025
Trump’s Gold Card Visa: What it means for wealthy Indians
Feb 28, 2025
Is Trump's criticism of Zelenskyy a sign of waning US support for Ukraine?
Feb 24, 2025
Delhi's new leadership decoded
Feb 20, 2025
Why Delhi Felt a big jolt from a 4.2 magnitude earthquake
Feb 17, 2025
Decoding the Modi-Trump talks and big announcements
Feb 14, 2025
Regulate or tolerate? The India's Got Latent controversy
Feb 11, 2025
Why Trump is deporting Indians
Feb 10, 2025
What led to BJP's victory in Delhi?
Feb 09, 2025
Trump's tariff war: What's at stake for India?
Feb 04, 2025
Budget 2025: Taxes, Bihar, and big moves
Feb 01, 2025
How deeply is DeepSeek disturbing
Jan 29, 2025
Mahakumbh, once in a lifetime experience
Jan 29, 2025
Trump overhauls America on Day 1
Jan 24, 2025
Expectations from Budget 2025
Jan 21, 2025
Will Gaza be peaceful finally?
Jan 21, 2025
Why did Hindenberg Research shut down?
Jan 17, 2025
Delhi elections 2025: Can AAP weather the storm or is change coming?
Jan 14, 2025
Is HMPV as deadly as Covid 19?
Jan 08, 2025
What after Justin Trudeau?
Jan 07, 2025
Dip in Goa tourism: Myth or fact?
Jan 03, 2025
How will 'One Nation, One Election' work
Dec 27, 2024
Why did Ravichandran Ashwin retire mid-season?
Dec 20, 2024
Was Laapataa Ladies the wrong pick for the Oscars?
Dec 20, 2024
Stock-taking time for INDIA
Dec 17, 2024
What's the truth in the Atul Subhash case?
Dec 13, 2024
Why South Korea has plunged into crisis
Dec 11, 2024
Volatile Syria and the fall of a dictator
Dec 09, 2024
Why Pushpa 2 has ignited a pan-India craze
Dec 09, 2024
Task cut out for Devendra Fadnavis
Dec 05, 2024
Why ISKCON priests are facing threats in Bangladesh
Dec 02, 2024
Why India turned down the COP29 climate finance deal
Nov 27, 2024
Maharashtra, Jharkhand election results decoded
Nov 25, 2024
Should Google be forced to sell Chrome?
Nov 21, 2024
Nayanthara vs Dhanush
Nov 20, 2024
Who will fix Delhi pollution?
Nov 20, 2024
Why Championship Trophy in Pakistan has become controversial
Nov 18, 2024
The loyalists of Trump 2.0
Nov 13, 2024
Judicial journey of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna 
Nov 12, 2024
America Chooses Donald Trump
Nov 06, 2024
Manoj Jarange Patil bowls a googly
Nov 05, 2024
Maharashtra election curtain raiser
Oct 28, 2024
Is the India-China border debate finally settled?
Oct 25, 2024
Why Delhi pollution cannot ever be resolved
Oct 24, 2024
Investigating hoax bomb threats in Indian airlines
Oct 22, 2024
India-Canada relations nosedive
Oct 16, 2024
Who killed Baba Siddique?
Oct 14, 2024
Ratan Tata lives on: A story of legacy and impact
Oct 10, 2024
Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir election results explained
Oct 09, 2024
Year of Israel-Palestine escalation
Oct 07, 2024
Should Telangana leaders politicise film stars?
Oct 04, 2024
Jaishankar bids for UNSC permanent seat
Sep 30, 2024
How sacrilege at Tirupati could have been avoided
Sep 23, 2024
Hezbollah blames Israel for pager explosions in Lebanon
Sep 19, 2024
Delhi CM resignation and cracks within opposition
Sep 16, 2024
Trump vs Harris: Who won the presidential debate?
Sep 13, 2024
Mpox outbreak and arrival in India
Sep 10, 2024
Justin Trudeau government turns lame duck
Sep 10, 2024
A view to pressing PresVu into eye care service
Sep 05, 2024
Will merger into Air India obliterate Vistara?
Sep 05, 2024
IC 814 Kandahar hijack: Separating fact from fiction
Sep 03, 2024
Seeking justice: Latest developments in RG Kar rape case
Aug 29, 2024
Stuck in space: The unplanned odyssey of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore
Aug 29, 2024
MeToo movement resurfaces in Malayalam film industry
Aug 27, 2024
OPS, NPS and UPS: Why pension reform is a hot potato
Aug 26, 2024
Democratic National Convention takeaways
Aug 26, 2024
Lateral entry no more? 
Aug 20, 2024
Possibilities in elections of Jammu-Kashmir and Haryana
Aug 16, 2024
RG Kar Medical College horror
Aug 16, 2024
Kamala Harris’ running mate: How strong?
Aug 09, 2024
The mess in Bangladesh
Aug 06, 2024
Monsoon Implications on Indian Economy
Jul 31, 2024
India at Paris Olympics 2024
Jul 29, 2024
India in Sri Lanka without seniors
Jul 26, 2024
Budget 2024-25: Priorities and compulsions of Modi
Jul 23, 2024
Kamala Harris & Donald Trump: The race to the White House
Jul 23, 2024
Why JD Vance is Donald Trump's perfect running mate
Jul 18, 2024
Assassination attempted on Trump: Will Biden bite the bullet?
Jul 15, 2024
Tories get Labours' pangs in the UK 
Jul 05, 2024
Supreme Court of US ‘Trumps’
Jul 03, 2024
How India won ICC T20 World Cup
Jul 01, 2024
Jullian Assange: Conditional freedom
Jun 25, 2024
NEET not so neat
Jun 14, 2024
India-Qatar football match: What went wrong
Jun 13, 2024
71 ministers in Modi 3.0: The message
Jun 11, 2024
Modi 3.0: Three Weathercocks to Watch Out For
Jun 06, 2024
BJP rule begins in Odisha
Jun 05, 2024
Lok Sabha election results 2024: The final wrap
Jun 04, 2024
India's record-breaking heatwave and its impacts
Jun 02, 2024
Exit Poll Analysis: Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Jun 01, 2024
Trump convicted: Impact on US election
May 31, 2024
Pune hit-and-run: How the system fails
May 27, 2024
Ebrahim Raisi leaves behind void, uncertainty
May 21, 2024
Mumbai billboard collapse: Fixing responsibility
May 16, 2024
Varanasi to herald Modi 3.0?
May 14, 2024
Will PoK get freedom from Pakistan?
May 13, 2024
LSG fracas at IPL: Sanjiv Goenka takes on KL Rahul
May 10, 2024
Now Canada blames Bishnoi gang
May 06, 2024
Covid vaccine: Is India at risk?
May 06, 2024
T20 World Cup in US: Chances for India, cricket
May 03, 2024
Amethi, Rae Bareli: Congress' withering heights
May 03, 2024
Inheritance tax in India
Apr 30, 2024
Unopposed victory: Fair or foul?
Apr 24, 2024
Behind Doordarshan's Saffron Logo
Apr 24, 2024
Salman Khan attacked: Whodunnit?
Apr 18, 2024
Why Iran and Israel are fighting
Apr 16, 2024
Musk vs Brazilian judge
Apr 12, 2024
Centre vs West Bengal: NIA vs Police
Apr 09, 2024
India eliminating terrorists on foreign soil?
Apr 09, 2024
Vistara's flight cancellation crisis
Apr 05, 2024
The Katchatheevu dispute
Apr 02, 2024
MS Dhoni: Unceremoniously out of CSK
Mar 27, 2024
Arrest of Arvind Kejriwal
Mar 27, 2024
Election dates: Why so stretched
Mar 18, 2024
Feasibility of 'one nation, one election'
Mar 15, 2024
CAA implemented: Busting the myths
Mar 14, 2024
Women voters: New electorate to watch out for
Mar 12, 2024
Election Commission resigned to fate?
Mar 12, 2024
Tough luck, Shehbaz Sharif!
Mar 05, 2024
195 of BJP: Commissions and omissions
Mar 04, 2024
JMM bribery verdict overturned
Mar 04, 2024
Gaganyaan to take humans to space
Feb 29, 2024
INDI Alliance seat-sharing
Feb 26, 2024
Maratha quota in Maharashtra: How feasible
Feb 20, 2024
Electoral bonds banned
Feb 16, 2024
Why farmers are protesting again
Feb 13, 2024
Qatar yields to Modi diplomacy
Feb 12, 2024
370: How Modi will achieve this figure
Feb 09, 2024
UCC in Uttarakhand: Centre next?
Feb 06, 2024
Bharat Ratna Advani
Feb 05, 2024
Budget 2024 Unveiled
Feb 01, 2024
Nitish Kumar turns coat again
Jan 30, 2024
Tricky India-Iran relations
Jan 19, 2024
Iran Pakistan escalation
Jan 19, 2024
‘India Out’ campaign by Maldives
Jan 16, 2024
Why Milind Deora ditched Congress
Jan 15, 2024
Congress 'no' to Ayodhya Ram Mandir
Jan 12, 2024
Bilkis Bano case: Why remission was wrong
Jan 08, 2024
How Lakshadweep visit by PM cuts Maldives to size
Jan 05, 2024
Epstein files: How dirty? How credible?
Jan 04, 2024
Ram temple in Ayodhya: Religious or political?
Jan 03, 2024
Wrestling over WFI reputation
Dec 27, 2023
Parliament without opposition
Dec 20, 2023
Parliament security breach: Whodunnit?
Dec 15, 2023
New Chief Ministers of Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Dec 13, 2023
Article 370 abrogation upheld
Dec 11, 2023
Mahua Moitra expelled: The procedure
Dec 08, 2023
New viral disease in China, US
Dec 06, 2023
Was COP28 a cop-out?
Dec 05, 2023
State election results 2023 explained
Dec 04, 2023
Exit polls: True or false?
Dec 01, 2023
Why no Rythu Bandhu In Election
Nov 27, 2023
Ray of hope from Uttarkashi tunnel?
Nov 23, 2023
Open AI doomed?
Nov 21, 2023
Why India lost ICC World Cup 2023
Nov 20, 2023
Battleground Al Shifa Hospital
Nov 17, 2023
Suella Braverman controversy
Nov 16, 2023
Can artificial rain clean Delhi?
Nov 10, 2023
Why Nitish Kumar goes vulgar
Nov 09, 2023
Rashmika Mandanna’s deepfake troubles deeply
Nov 08, 2023
Cricket shamed at Bangladesh-Sri Lanka World Cup match
Nov 07, 2023
Delhi chokes in toxic air
Oct 31, 2023
Free right to hell?
Oct 30, 2023
Economic impact of Israel-Hamas conflict
Oct 27, 2023
H1B visa: Turbulent flight to America
Oct 26, 2023
Dance of death: Linked to Garba?
Oct 25, 2023
SC maintains status quo on same-sex marriage
Oct 18, 2023
A 5-poll prelude to 2024 election
Oct 16, 2023
India-Pakistan cricket-politics mix
Oct 13, 2023
Israel vs Hamas: Middle East burns again
Oct 09, 2023
Caste In Stone? The Bihar Census
Oct 03, 2023
Bengaluru bottlenecked
Sep 28, 2023
Gender justice in Parliament
Sep 22, 2023
Why India-Canada relations are nosediving
Sep 20, 2023
Why Nipah virus outbreak recurs in Kerala
Sep 18, 2023
Trudeau fiddles as India-Canada relations burn
Sep 11, 2023
What India can achieve from G20
Sep 07, 2023
Bharat vs India: Why this debate
Sep 06, 2023
Udayanidhi Stalin rants: Where is his hate coming from?
Sep 04, 2023
Aditya L1: India reaching for the sun
Sep 01, 2023
One nation, one election: How will India do it?
Sep 01, 2023
Suicides in Kota: End of dream and life
Aug 28, 2023
Chandrayaan 3: India on Moon
Aug 24, 2023
BRICS gaining importance brick by brick
Aug 23, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy: Indian in American race
Aug 21, 2023
Will Tesla price cut in China devastate EV car market?
Aug 16, 2023
Pakistani democracy in turmoil
Aug 14, 2023
IPC, CrPC, Evidence Act to be replaced
Aug 11, 2023
Rahul Gandhi: Masterstroke or master-blooper?
Aug 09, 2023
Whose Delhi? GNCTD explained
Aug 08, 2023
Four years post-Article 370
Aug 04, 2023
Digging India: Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation Amendment) Bill 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Sri Lanka thanks India for bailout
Jul 21, 2023
Seema Haider: Gadar 2 or I spy?
Jul 19, 2023
Can opposition stand as one?
Jul 17, 2023
Chandrayaan 3: Launch of Indian hope
Jul 14, 2023
Violence, sham of democracy in West Bengal
Jul 12, 2023
Delhi drowning
Jul 10, 2023
Fukushima water release: How safe?
Jul 07, 2023
SCO: Modi embraces alternate power bloc too
Jul 04, 2023
Ajit 'Power': Defection politics in Maharashtra
Jul 03, 2023
MP: A tight fight for BJP
Jun 30, 2023
Race-based affirmative action abolished by US SC
Jun 30, 2023