Podcasts by India Speak: The CPR Podcast
As India navigates its way through the 21st-century, it confronts crucial challenges. Tune into India Speak, the podcast by the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), as experts shed light on some of the most important issues of our times and how India can address them. These issues include politics, climate change, governance, foreign policy, technology, state capacity, urbanisation, land rights, sanitation, economy and more.
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Episode 15: Uncovering the Military Aspects of Sino-India Ties from 2022-02-21T06:32:23
In the second episode of our series, hosted by Sushant Singh (Senior Fellow, CPR), featuring leading experts on the various facets of Sino-India relations, we are joined by Dennis Blasko (Independe...
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Episode 14:Uncovering the Historical Aspects of Sino-India Ties from 2022-02-14T07:31:26
We are delighted to present a brand new series hosted by Sushant Singh (Senior Fellow, CPR), featuring leading experts on the multiple facets of Sino-India relations. In the first episode of the s...
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Episode 13: Dissecting Electoral Trends for Assembly Elections 2022 from 2022-02-11T04:25:28
With crucial assembly elections, all eyes are on the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur. Why are these elections important? What are the key electoral issues in these sta...
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Episode 12: The Future of Multilateralism from 2022-01-28T05:12:50
In this episode of India Speak: The CPR Podcast, Shyam Saran (Senior Fellow, CPR and Former Indian Foreign Secretary) is joined by Asoke Mukerji (Former Permanent Representative of India to the Uni...
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Episode 11: Unpacking the Repeal of the Farm Laws from 2021-11-25T04:04:35
On 19th November 2021, Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three contentious farm laws following one of the longest farmers' agitation that the country has witnessed. T...
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Episode 10: Ideas from the Centre: Celebrating 48 Years of CPR from 2021-11-02T05:34:37
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) completes 48 years on 2 November 2021. In this special episode of India Speak: The CPR Podcast, Mukta Naik (Fellow, CPR) speaks to Yamini Aiyar (President and C...
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Episode 9: Unpacking the Crisis in Afghanistan from 2021-08-19T10:21:32
In this episode of India Speak, Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow at CPR speaks with Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, former Ambassador to Afghanistan (2010-13) and Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR.
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Episode 8: An Inside View of Delhi Government's Oxygen Control Room from 2021-07-16T05:51:42
The second wave of COVID-19 left an already-strained health system crumbling. As one of the initial states hit by the surge of cases, Delhi faced many challenges ensuring adequate oxygen supply to ...
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Episode 7: Dissecting India's Problem of Economic Inequality from 2021-07-09T06:24:05
The slowdown of economic activity experienced due to the lockdowns resulted in a significant impact on the lives of the poorest. In this episode of India Speak, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Ex...
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Episode 6: Unpacking India's COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy from 2021-07-02T07:19:12
India embarked on its COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in early January prior to the second wave. In this episode of India Speak, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks to Partha Muk...
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Episode 5: Realities of COVID-19 in Rural India from 2021-06-25T03:56:57
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic saw rural parts of India get affected as well, unlike the previous year during the first wave. In this episode of India Speak, Yamini Aiyar (President and C...
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Episode 4: Responding to the Spread of COVID-19 in Rural India from 2021-06-17T18:01:56
Unlike last year during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the second wave witnessed the virus making inroads into rural areas of India as well. To discuss this and more, Yamini Aiyar (Presid...
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Episode 3: Impact on Jobs, Incomes, Inequality and Poverty from 2021-06-10T16:21:51
The State of Working India 2021 (https://bit.ly/3xc4W98) report by the Centre for Sustainable Employment (CSE) at the Azim Premji University finds that the pandemic has further increased informalit...
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Episode 2: Impact of the Second Wave on Unemployment and Labour Force Participation from 2021-06-03T04:00:31
The second wave of the pandemic saw localised lockdowns across India that brought economic activities to a halt. What has been the impact of this on unemployment and labour force participation? In ...
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Episode 1: Impact of the Second Wave on the Economy from 2021-05-28T03:49:41
The Indian economy was going through an unprecedented slowdown that was exacerbated by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant national lockdown. Just as the economy was showing signs...
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The Gig Sisters Episode 1: In the mood for food from 2021-03-07T10:23:38
Home-chefs and the gig economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 lockdown forced many businesses, big or small, to innovate and find creative ways to stay relevant. This included ...
Episode 50: Confronting the Crisis of Air Pollution from 2020-11-20T02:53:12
Listen to the 50th episode of ThoughtSpace (above) featuring Shibani Ghosh, Santosh Harish and Yamini Aiyar.
While air pollution levels are unsafe across the country, all-year round, they ...
Episode 49: Why are Farmers Protesting Against the Government’s Agricultural Reforms? from 2020-09-28T05:26:41
Listen to the forty-ninth episode of ThoughtSpace featuring Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Ajay Vir Jakhar and Yamini Aiyar.
The Government of India passed three farm reform bills- The Farmers’ P...
Episode 48: How to regulate India’s economy to enable growth from 2020-08-12T09:15:04
In the 48th episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr KP Krishnan, Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research and former IAS offi...
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Episode 47: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Impact on Education from 2020-07-27T04:11:02
In the 47th episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham, India’s leading NGO in the space of elementary education. Prat...
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Episode 46: The Coronavirus Pandemic: How can India learn to live with the virus? from 2020-07-17T04:50:38
In the forty sixth episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr Jishnu Das, Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and professor at Georgetown University.
Episode 45: Agriculture Reforms: Are the recent reforms likely to double farmers’ incomes? from 2020-06-19T10:00:51
In this forty-fifth episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Senior Fellow and Director of the new State Capacity Initiative ...
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Episode 44: The Future of India-China Relations from 2020-06-11T05:38:21
In episode 44 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR speaks with Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary and Senior Fellow, CPR.
In the last few weeks, a crisis ha...
Episode 43: The Coronavirus Pandemic: How is the pandemic shifting labour-capital relations? from 2020-06-01T08:27:08
In episode 43 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr K R Shyam Sundar, one of India's leading researchers on labour laws, and professor at the Xavier Inst...
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Episode 42: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Will the pandemic lead to a shift in the global order? from 2020-05-19T05:53:32
In episode 42 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Ambassador Shyam Saran, India’s former foreign secretary and Senior Fellow at CPR.
The coronav...
Episode 41: The Coronavirus Pandemic: How to Secure Lives of Migrant Workers from 2020-05-13T07:14:20
In episode 41 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with members of the Stranded Workers Action Network (SWAN) initiative on the limitations of India’s social se...
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Episode 40: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Data and Technology Implications on Citizen-State Relations from 2020-05-07T07:52:48
In episode 40 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Ananth Padmanabhan, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and Dean of the Daksha Fellowship;...
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Episode 39 | Part 2: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Impact of the lockdown on Tuberculosis Care from 2020-04-27T08:37:50
In episode 39, part 2 of ThoughtSpace, co-hosts Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, and Dr Jishnu Das, Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR, speak with...
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Episode 39 | Part 1: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Impact of the lockdown on Tuberculosis Care from 2020-04-27T05:42:42
In episode 39, part 1 of ThoughtSpace, co-hosts Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, and Dr Jishnu Das, Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR, speak with...
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Episode 38: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Impact on Unemployment and Labour Force Participation from 2020-04-20T10:25:09
In the 38th episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr Mahesh Vyas, MD and CEO of Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy.
As the economy c...
Episode 37: The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Global Perspective from 2020-04-17T09:43:45
In episode 37 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar and Dr Jishnu Das speak with Dr Christiana Iyasere, Dr Saumya Das and Dr Nim Pathy.
While India goes into lockdown 2.0 and determines the best s...
Episode 36: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Addressing the Food Crisis In India from 2020-04-13T07:35:12
In episode 36 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Pravesh Sharma, former IAS officer and CEO of Kamatan Farms Pvt. Ltd., and Dr Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Sen...
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Episode 35: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Dealing with the Economic Crisis from 2020-04-08T09:15:18
In the 35th episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive of CPR, speaks with Dr Rathin Roy, Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP).
Episode 34: The Coronavirus Pandemic: Why are India’s migrant workers walking home? from 2020-04-02T11:51:09
In episode 34 of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar speaks with Partha Mukhopadhyay and Mukta Naik about the migrant worker crisis unfolding across the country.
The lockdown imposed by the Indian ...
Episode 32: The NRC Quagmire: Why is Assam on Edge? from 2020-03-29T14:02:09
In the 32nd episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks to Sanjoy Hazarika (Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Honorary Research Professor, CP...
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Episode 33: The Coronavirus Pandemic: How Prepared is India? from 2020-03-29T13:28:54
In the 33rd episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks with Dr Jishnu Das (Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR and professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy an...
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Episode 31: Citizenship Amendment Act- Protests, Democracy & Politics: Lessons from Latin America from 2020-01-16T12:02:15
In the 31st episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks to Patrick Heller ( Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University), abo...
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Episode 30: The Role of Small Cities in Shaping Youth Employment in India and Indonesia from 2019-08-30T09:11:01
In the 30th episode of CPR's podcast, ThoughtSpace Richa Bansal talks to Mukta Naik, Fellow, CPR and Gregory Randolph, Executive Vice President, JustJobs Network, discussing their research on the r...
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Episode 29: Right to Sanitation - Critical Perspectives from 2019-04-22T10:37:21
In the 29th episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Senior Visiting Fellow, Philippe Cullet, about the book, 'Right to Sanitation: Critical Perspectives' co-edited by him, Sujith Koonan ...
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Episode 28: Understanding Reservations for Economically Backward Sections of Society from 2019-03-25T10:57:12
In the 28th Episode of ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Senior Fellow, D Shyam Babu, discussing the Lok Sabha bill that aims to provide 10 percent reservation in government jobs and education to...
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Episode 27: Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India from 2019-02-07T10:02:32
In the 27th episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Fellow, Rahul Verma, about his new book, ‘Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India’, co-authored with Pradeep K Chhi...
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Episode 26: Unpacking the Crisis in Sri Lanka's Politics from 2018-11-06T07:26:47
In the twenty sixth episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Senior Fellow and former Foreign Secretary Ambassador Shyam Saran, about the recent turmoil in Sri Lanka's politics.
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Episode 25: Making Sanitation Work Safe and Eradicating Manual Scavenging from 2018-10-01T10:38:42
In the twenty fifth episode of CPR ThoughtSpace Richa Bansal talks to Senior Fellow, Shubhagato Dasgupta and Fellow, Arkaja Singh, about deaths due to manual scavenging in India.
Despite l...
Episode 24: Unpacking the Processes Involved in Declaring Udaipur Open Defecation Free from 2018-10-01T09:54:30
As the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) completes 4 years on 2nd October, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it becomes essential to study and understand the progress the Mission has made so...
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Episode 23: Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition from 2018-09-07T11:07:23
In the twenty third episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Bharat Karnad, Research Professor at CPR about his new book 'Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition'. <...
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Episode 22: Understanding the Implications of the Pakistan Election Results from 2018-08-16T11:06:40
In the twenty second episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Amb G Parthasarathy, Honorary Research Professor at CPR and former Ambassador to Pakistan, to discuss the Pakistan election r...
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Episode 21: A conversation with Srinath Raghavan on his new book 'The Most Dangerous Place' from 2018-06-29T07:47:02
In the twenty first episode of CPR ThoughtSpace, Richa Bansal talks to Srinath Raghavan, a Senior Fellow at CPR, to discuss his new book 'The Most Dangerous Place'.
The book presents a gri...
Episode 20: Social and Economic Transformations in Small Towns of India from 2018-01-24T10:36:46
Small towns have remained an important feature of the Indian urban system. In this episode of CPR's podcast, Richa Bansal speaks to Dr Partha Mukhopadhyay from CPR and Professor Surinder Jodhka fro...
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Episode 19: Unpacking the Smart Cities Mission in India from 2017-09-20T12:12:22
Persis Taraporevala and Ankit Bhardwaj, both research associates at CPR, have conducted extensive research on the Smart Cities Mission across multiple states - both through empirical research of si...
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Episode 18: Understanding Corruption Systemically - its causes, types and solutions from 2017-06-30T12:00:27
Corruption is a systemic problem in India and a recently released report categorised states in India by their level of corruption. T R Raghunanadan, an advisor to the Accountability Initiative at C...
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Episode 17: Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods from 2017-06-30T11:40:03
Agnes Deboulet, a Sociology professor at Université Paris-VIII Vincennes Saint-Denis co-authored a book titled 'Rethinking Precarious Neighbourhoods' along with Véronique Dupont, a Senior Visiting ...
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Episode 16: Unpacking Research on Environmental Justice from 2017-06-09T10:11:46
Manju Menon, Senior Fellow at CPR, leads research on environmental justice with her team, in collaboration with another organisation called Namati. In this episode of CPR's podcast, Richa Bansal ta...
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Episode 15: Understanding Land Conflict in India from 2017-04-18T12:31:43
The Land Rights Initiative at CPR recently completed a study of Supreme Court cases on land acquisition in India from 1950 to 2016. This study examines land disputes along various metrics, as well ...
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Episode 14: Trump's Energy Politics and Implications for India from 2017-04-13T10:35:27
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to promote US energy independence and economic growth, which can potentially damage global efforts to limit climate change.
Navro...
Episode 13: Uncharted Waters: Navigating the India-China conversation on the Brahmaputra from 2017-04-06T11:20:54
The Brahmaputra is a river of great strategic significance to both China and India at many levels, and therefore contentious, especially given that China is the source country for it. Nimmi Kurian ...
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Episode 12: Analysing BJP's Victory in Uttar Pradesh from 2017-03-15T12:58:13
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) state elections of 2017 saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, script an unprecedented and unexpected landslide victory i...
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Episode 11 - Can the Poor in India Access Quality Healthcare? from 2017-03-02T11:46:56
Can the poor in India access quality healthcare? What are the barriers and the potential solutions? In this episode of the podcast, Dr Jishnu Das, a Senior Visiting Fellow at CPR and lead economist...
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Episode 10 - Subnationalism and Social Development in India from 2017-02-23T11:55:06
The place you live in have has a huge impact on your life. Why are some places in the world, and indeed even within the same country, characterised by better social service provision and welfare ou...
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Episode 9 - India's New Education Policy In Waiting For Three Decades from 2017-02-08T12:38:28
The government of India is working to bring out a New Education Policy or NEP to meet the needs of a changing India, ensuring quality, innovation, research to make the country a knowledge hub. The ...
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Episode 8 - Demonetisation: Rule of law or law of the powerful? from 2017-01-13T12:14:01
The Parliamentary Committee, which is probing the government’s decision to demonetise high value notes, recently raised a number of questions before the RBI governor Urijit Patel, and has summoned ...
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Episode 7 - Coping with 'Notebandi'(Demonetisation): Voices of informal workers from 2016-12-22T10:08:10
The urban team at the Centre for Policy Research carried out intensive field work over two weeks, where the researchers interviewed workers across categories of informal work in Delhi to understand...
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Episode 6 - Pakistan's New Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa & India from 2016-12-09T08:43:30
The India-Pakistan relationship has been at an all-time low since the Uri attack, with India closely watching the change in guard of the Pakistani army chief, the de-facto power centre there. With ...
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Episode 5 - Demonetisation – Curbing Black Money Or Welfare Shock? from 2016-11-21T10:30:17
On the night of November 8, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the withdrawal of 500 and 1000 rupee notes from the market, with immediate effect, with the aim of curbing black money. While this...
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Episode 4 - Analysing the Evolving India - China Relations from 2016-11-16T10:52:03
Relations between India and China have changed considerably over the past decade as China’s growth rate outpaced India’s, placing both countries in unique and different positions in the current glo...
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Episode 3 - Analysing Donald Trump's Victory from 2016-11-11T13:01:02
On November 8, the American electorate voted in Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, a phenomenon that the world is trying to deconstruct. Neelanjan Sircar, a Senior Fellow at C...
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Episode 2 - Understanding Bureaucracy from the Bureaucrat’s Perspective from 2016-10-21T11:34:27
India’s bureaucracy has been her Achilles heel, often described as ‘corrupt’, ‘lazy’, ‘ineffective’ and more. And the reason for why the best-intentioned policies do not get implemented successfull...
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Episode 1 - Violence Against Dalits In India from 2016-09-29T11:37:08
In recent times, several instances of violence against Dalits have brought back India’s focus on caste discrimination. Such instances also dent the claims of progress that Dalits have made with reg...
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