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Prof. Shamika Ravi is VP @ ORF, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings  Institute, and a former member of the Economic Advisory Council to the  Prime Minister of India. She is one of the most recognized people in  Developmental Economics in India today.   We hosted Prof. Ravi in Aug 2020 for a data-led analysis of the COVID-19  pandemic; she spoke about the rising infections, impact of lockdowns,  how v...

Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Goa on 14 February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Goa Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022. In this election, we are seeing major parties from all over the country such as BJP, Congress, TMC, and AAP competing for seats in the first assembly elections of 2022.   We have our resident politic...

India have lost yet another series away from home, this time against South Africa / Virat Kohli stepped down as Test captain yesterday  Besides the batsmen’s failures, Kohli listed inconsistency, lack of application, lapse in concentration and their inability to seize the crunch moments as reasons for the loss. South Africa won the series 2-1. Also, yesterday Virat Kohli announced on social media...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the   week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe  to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with  everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're  @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and  @bharatvaarta on Instagram).

Samuel Ramani is a politics and international relations tutor at the  University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil. An associate fellow  at the Royal United Services Institute, he contributes regularly to  Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera  English and CNN International. He tweets as @samramani2.

On this special episode, we look back at 21 moments from 2021 across 86  episodes covering Politics, Policy, and Culture. Watch this video and  check out our best moments from the last year.   Jeffrey Archer - Why He Releases in India First -   https://youtu.be/l4E3BOvdEyM Vijay Gokhale - How Does China Negotiate - https://youtu.be/jgEv4C86HFk Velina - New Geopolitical Order Post-Trump - https://y...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the   week that was. This week we spoke about rising number of COVID cases, PM  Modi's visit to Punjab, India's upcoming Test match, and India's rising  GDP. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our  channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at  Bharatvaarta by following us on social...

Tuhin A. Sinha is an Indian author and politician. He is known for the  novels Mission Shengzhan, a topic of a previous episode on Bharatvaarta,  and today's topic of discussion, The Legend Of Birsa Munda; a  dramatized account of one of the unsung heroes of India's independence  movement.  In 19th century India, deep in the heart of what is now the state of  Jharkhand, the Adivasis have been lead...

Domestic equities rose to their peak levels in October on strong global cues with P/E multiples touching 31 for the Sensex. This then prompted a sell-off by foreign investors, prompting them to pull a whopping ₹13,550 crore from Indian equities during the month. Indian stocks have witnessed a heavy outflow of foreign investment - a key driver for domestic equities - over the past two months.  Benc...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the   week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe  to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with  everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're  @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and  @bharatvaarta on Instagram).

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the   week that was. This week, we spoke about the PM inagurating the Kashi  corridor, Bhutan conferring an award on PM Modi, Indian model winning  Miss Universe, the Ganguly vs Virat controversy and more.  If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel  and share this content. You can stay updated with ever...

Professor Meenakshi Jain is a renowned Indian political scientists and  historian, along with being a scholar on relations between caste and  politics. In 2020, she was conferred with the Padma Shri for her work in  the field of literature and education. From dealing with the rebirth of  temples, to making the case for the Ayodhya temple, to exploring  Hindu-Muslim relations in India, her deeply r...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the  week that was.  This week we spoke about the new PLIs worth 76000 crore  proposed by the government, India beating New Zealand in the test  series, updates on the Omicron variant, and the farmer's protest being  called off.   If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel  and share this content. You ca...

Eurodollars are time deposits denominated in U.S. dollars at banks  outside the United States, and thus are not under the jurisdiction of  the Federal Reserve. Consequently, such deposits are subject to much  less regulation than similar deposits within the U.S. The term was  originally coined for U.S. dollars in European banks, but it expanded  over the years to its present definition. A U.S. dol...

Shirish Beri’s works have been bearing a distinct mark on modern Indian  architecture since 1975 Initially as Director (Design) with “Beri  architects and engineers pvt. ltd.” and later through his company  “Shirish Beri and Associates”.  His work is free, spontaneous, as it is not bound by conditioning  and  constrains of a particular style or ism. It is intensely responsive to  the site, the soc...

Gautam Chintamani is a film historian and the author of Rajneeti (Penguin-Random House, 2019), the first biography of Rajnath Singh. He is the author of the bestselling Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (HarperCollins, 2014), The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema (HarperCollins, 2016) and Pink- The Inside Story (HarperCollins, 2017).   About the Book: In 2019, the BJP came into power o...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was.  This week we spoke about the Omicron variant of the pandemic, the digital bills tabled in the parliament, the rise of TMC, INS Vela, India challenging the OPEC and more.  If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatv...

Mr. Chandorkar is director of Bengaluru-based policy think tank Smahi  Foundation of Policy and Research. He was recently appointed to the post  of Counsellor, Permanent Mission of India (PMI), World Trade  Organisation (WTO), Geneva (at DS/Director level) for a period of three  years.   In this episode, he speaks about the view from the inside on the  functioning of the Indian government and geop...

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every  country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands  for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In that time climate change has gone  from being a fringe issue to a global priority. This year will be the  26th annual summit – giving it the name COP26.   With the UK as President, COP26 takes place in Glasgow. In the...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the  week that was.  This week we spoke about the Vir Das controversy,  delivery of the S400 air defence systems from Russia, Delhi lockdown due  to smog, repeal of the farm laws, and more.   If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel  and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at  Bhar...

Vikram Sood is the former head of India's foreign intelligence agency,  the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), and an advisor to the  Observer Research Foundation, an independent public policy think tank in  New Delhi. Sood was an officer of the Indian Postal Service (IPoS)  before he joined the intelligence organisation R&AW and later served  as its spymaster from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a ca...

The results of all the bypolls held in 29 assembly seats and three Lok  Sabha seats are in. The Trinamool Congress swept all four assembly seats  in West Bengal with Udayan Guha winning the Dinhata seat, previously  held by the BJP, by a margin of 1,63,005 votes. Meanwhile, the Congress  party swept the Himachal and Rajasthan bypolls. The party wrested the  Mandi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP and wo...

The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the  week that was.  This week we spoke about the Norovirus making rounds in  Kerala, the Padma and Khel Ratna awards, India's IPO rush. We also  discussed the protests in Maharashtra, the ambush in Manipur, and the  revised GDP forecast.   If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel  and share this conte...

The Republic of Poland is a Central European country and member of the  European Union and NATO, among others. Poland wields considerable  influence in Central and Eastern Europe and is a middle power in  international affairs. The foreign policy of Poland is based on four  basic commitments: to Atlantic co-operation, to European integration, to  international development and to international law....

India is the world’s largest and most vigorous democracy. Today’s new economic balance of power has given the country a chance to reclaim much of its earlier glory when it was one of the world’s richest civilizations. In the current context, India’s fundamentally vital indicators reflect the country’s potential as an economic powerhouse.  As Indians, we have proved ourselves in almost every sphere...