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The Taliban were removed from power in Afghanistan by US-led forces in  2001, but the group has seized control of the country once again  following a rapid offensive.  The capital, Kabul, was the last major city to fall to the offensive  that began months ago but accelerated as the hardline Islamists gained  control of territories.  The group entered direct talks with the US back in 2018, and in F...

Between the years 1659 and 1818, the Marathas fought hundreds of  battles, not only in the Sahyadris, but across the country. Some of  these were pivotal and game changing - such as the Pratapgad Campaign,  Palkhed or Panipat. The course of Maratha and Indian history was altered  by these battles. This book attempts to throw a light on a dozen of  these significant battles and campaigns, focusing...

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This year, India is witnessing an increasing number of high-profile  internet startups going public. Food delivery giant Zomato listed its  shares on the public markets earlier in July and saw its market cap  hitting USD 13 billion. Other big wig companies like digital payments  firms Paytm and MobiKwik, omnichannel beauty product retailer Nykaa,  online travel booking firm ixigo, and digital insu...

India on Monday has once again achieved a milestone by administering  more than 1 crore Covid vaccine doses for the third time in the last 11  days. A total of 1,05,76,911 doses were administered on Monday,  officials said, adding that the figure is expected to increase with thecompilation of the final reports. Dr.  Yogesh Panchwagh is a doctor in Pune, working as a frontline healthcare  worker du...

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The politics of backward caste assertion in India is undergoing a new  resurgence. The possible culmination of a series of events, mostly  unrelated to each other, is likely to transform Other Backward Classes  (OBCs) from an administrative category to a political one. And this has  the potential to irreversibly change the nature and character of Indian  democracy.  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP...

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The Marathas began their quest for Swarajya in 1646 under Chhatrapati  Shivaji. From this year until 1818, the Marathas remained a formidable  power in the Indian sub-continent. This is a story of their rise to  paramountcy in the Eighteenth century – and their fall in early  Nineteenth century. It was the first indigenous Empire after centuries  of foreign rule…and the last before the British too...

More than three decades later, the Tiananmen Square incident refuses to  be forgotten. The events that occurred in the summer of 1989 would not  only set the course for China's politics but would also re-define its  relationship with the world. China's message was clear: it remained  committed to market-oriented reform, but it would not tolerate any  challenge to the supremacy of the Chinese Commu...

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Shri Swaminathan Gurumurthy is a chartered accountant and corporate and  legal adviser of high standing. Having qualified in the intermediate and  final examination of the CA examination in 1972 with all India ranking  in both examinations, he has been in practice for the last 42 years.  Shri Gurumurthy is a very well known adviser to many corporates on law  and finance and also on macro economic...

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the  land of Bharata. But this history of our ancestors continues to  fascinate us. Even today, we have passionate discussions about the  people and their actions in the epic, fervidly defending our favourites  and denouncing others. The number of works on the  Mahabharata-adaptations, retellings and fiction-that still get written...

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The new draft e commerce policy by the government will touch upon  multiple aspects of the eCommerce business itself and has wide ranging  consequences for all stakeholders involved. Understandably, there's a  lot of debate, skepticism, on certain clauses of the policy. To make  sense of all of these policy proposals and understand what is the right  way to look at these circumstances.  In this ep...

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The Pegasus expose has caused a huge scandal for Indian journalists and  politicians. With the high-tech modern approach of this virus, we need  to take a big-picture geopolitical view of this complex situation.  Today, our guests are Surya Kanegaonkar and Karan Datta. Surya is a  finance professional passionate about Indic culture and global  geopolitics, and a columnist for many prominent news o...

26th July is celebrated every year as Kargil Vijay Diwas. On this podcast, we look back at some of the events that unfolded 22 years ago on perhaps the toughest terrain in the world, and speak about some the history and significance of a war that everybody deemed impossible to win.  To discuss this, we have Aadit Kapadia, who runs MyIndMakers, a website discussing Indian policy, politics and cultu...

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Jayant Sinha is the Member of Indian Parliament and formerly the  Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of State for Civil  Aviation in the Government of India. Sinha ji is currently the  Chairperson for Standing Committee on Finance and a member of the Public  Accounts Committee for 2019-2020. He has also been an investment fund  manager and management consultant.  He is also a global ex...

The media landscape has changed drastically in the last 10 years with  the rise of independent media that offers an alternative to mainstream  media narratives. MyIndMakers, started in 2015, is one of the most  eminent examples of this movement. It has become one of the most popular  news sources for the Indian diaspora and beyond. In this episode, we  hosted Dr. Haritha Pusarla and Shri. Pramod B...

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On this episode of the #LongIndia series, we are pleased to have with us  Shri. NK Chaudhary ji, who is the Chairman & MD of Jaipur Rugs.  Jaipur Rugs is one of India's biggest manufacturers of hand-knotted  rugs. The company's operations span across 600 villages in India, with  the product being distributed to over 40 countries. The company manages  around 40,000 artisans.    He is often held up...

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