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Pragya Tiwari

Vishal Bhardwaj - TBIP Tête-à-Tête
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Vishal Bhardwaj - TBIP Tête-à-Tête

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Makdee was more than Vishal Bhardwaj's debut feature- it was a promise, a sign of times to come. Times when the line between art and commerce would blur, when we would be treated with real stories, our stories, told in a manner that befits a country obsessed with stories; when literature would enrich our movies again; when cinema will be magic again. Twelve years on Bhardwaj has a come long way in keeping that promise. Getting him to reflect on his journey is an exciting prospect except he strongly dislikes being interviewed formally. Getting him to talk is a Vikram Betal act- ask him a question he really wants to answer and hope he begrudgingly will. An exercise worth it only because the answers are so very fascinating.
Amitabh Bachchan - TBIP Tête-à-Tête
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Amitabh Bachchan - TBIP Tête-à-Tête

The Big Indian Picture - A magazine of cinema and culture The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Keep up on Facebook - www.facebook.com/TheBigIndianPicture Follow us on Twitter @TBIPicture (An optimised-audio for devices version of this interview is available here - http://youtu.be/Z4q6g9tkiaY)
Kalki Koechlin - TBIP Tete-a-Tete
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Kalki Koechlin - TBIP Tete-a-Tete

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Kalki Koechlin, 29, is an Indian actress of French descent who has portrayed a gamut of roles on screen. In life, she is seen as being one of the actors at the helm of what the media calls 'New Bollywood', or a Hindi cinema that is grittier and more real, and which deals with more challenging subjects than its mainstream counterpart, while still doing well financially. Also, Koechlin is married to a filmmaker who is seen as one of the driving forces behind this new kind of Indian movie— Anurag Kashyap. Here she speaks of her relationship with cinema and theatre, a medium she performed in before she took to the movies. She tells us what she makes of the Hindi film industry and how it has evolved in recent years and traces her unlikely and wondrous personal journey. - Pragya Tiwari, Editor-in-Chief, The Big Indian Picture Visit www.thebigindianpicture.com Host Wardrobe Courtesy - ZARA
Ranbir Kapoor - TBIP Tete-a-Tete - Full Interview
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Ranbir Kapoor - TBIP Tete-a-Tete - Full Interview

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. As soon as Ranbir Kapoor walks into the room, you know is a star. Not because he is saleable. Not because he is from the Hindi film industry's 'first family'. Not because he is likely to be mobbed on the streets. Not because he is all over the gossip magazines. Not even because he keeps his dark glasses on. You can tell Ranbir Kapoor is a star because he has that certain je ne sais quoi; that elusive glimmer we know oh-so well and yet can hardly sum up. But that is not all that makes him intriguing. Ranbir is a fourth-generation legatee of a family that has etched a place for itself in every era of the last 100 years of Indian cinema. The Kapoors are synonymous with style, panache, revelry, songs, success, glamour, brilliance and an unshakeable allegiance to the movies. Ranbir, named after his grandfather, is taking his own road to being a Kapoor. The Kapoor legacy for Ranbir is like the unseen backstory of a character that an actor uses merely as a reference in his process. The real journey of the character begins from the first frame of the film. Ranbir is also the quintessential representative of his generation. This month he turns 30. Already an accomplished actor, he has experimented with different genres. But he is not one to rest on his laurels, let alone his family's. Infact he is not one to rest at all. He is in a hurry to keep moving and find out what happens next. He is not interested in mere laurels either. What concerns him most is his journey-- the question of who he is and who else he can be. The one thing that sticks out about him is his single-minded curiosity-- a curiosity that borders on insatiable hunger. He is not satisfied. He is not smug. And yet, the surface is placid. He makes it all look effortless. Real cool. He says he hasn't found his identifiable star trait yet. That is precisely what makes him stand apart. He is enviably comfortable in his own skin. And as you watch him lie back and take on the world, never losing sight of what is real and what is not, you know a new kind of star is born. - Pragya Tiwari, Editor-in-Chief, The Big Indian Picture Visit www.thebigindianpicture.com
Sooni Taraporevala - TBIP Tête-à-Tête
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Sooni Taraporevala - TBIP Tête-à-Tête

The TBIP Tête-à-Tête is a series of in-depth and intimate interviews with film personalities who are critical to this era of filmmaking. It is an attempt to understand their body of work. And their minds. Because who they are intrigues us just as much as what they do. Because what they do is because of who they are. In certain cases, despite who they are. Because integral to the love of cinema is the love of cinema's idols— the chosen few whose mystique remains intact despite the tabloids' obsession with their lives. Sooni Taraporevala, 56, grew up in a large Parsi family in South Bombay, leading a fairly regular life until the day she found out she had been accepted to study in Harvard University as an undergraduate. She had applied for a lark and still cannot believe she got in. Harvard opened up a whole new world for her, sowing the seeds for the extraordinary work she was to do as a photographer and screenwriter later in life. It was also here that she met her collaborator in cinema, Mira Nair. After her post-graduation she moved back to Bombay without a plan, "for emotional reasons". Back in her hometown, she began photographing her community, building an unparalleled body of photographic work compiled in several exhibitions and a book called Parsis: the Zoroastrians of India - A Photographic Journey. Furthermore, she brought to life a city slum in Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair's directorial debut. Since then she has written several films including her own debut feature as a director, Little Zizou. She wants to continue writing films, directing them and taking pictures. Also on the bucket list is a novel. Here is hoping the newly acquired and richly deserved Padma Shri will keep her motivated. Visit www.thebigindianpicture.com
Jaipur Literature Festival
Ramesh Patange, Pragya Tiwari | Manuvad and Modernity | Jaipur Literature Festival
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Ramesh Patange, Pragya Tiwari | Manuvad and Modernity | Jaipur Literature Festival

Manuvad and Modernity: Ramesh Patange & Pragya Tiwari Ramesh Patange is a senior activist, thinker and ideologue of RSS. He is the former editor of the Marathi weekly Vivek and the monthly Udyog Krishi magazine. He is one of the founders of the Samajik Samarasata Manch, Bhatke-Vimukata Vikash Parishad and Samrasta Sahitya Parishad. He has 52 books to his name and has edited 50 special volumes. Awards: Tilak Samarasta Purskar (2017), Lokmany Tilak Lifetime Achievement Award (2017), Manikchand Vajpayee National Award (2017) Bestselling/ popular Books: Me, Manu ani Sangh, The Sangh Parivar and The Non- HIndus Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Manuvad and Modernity Scholar and activist Ramesh Patange speaks of caste, social structures and the tenets of Manuvad in the context of modern Indian society. In conversation with writer and journalist Pragya Tiwari, he shares his thoughts on justice and equity, and the reorientation needed to ‘decaste’ the Hindu approach. Patange is the author of 52 books. His latest book Mi, Manu ani Sangh has been translated into Hindi and other regional languages. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2019 sessions: https://bit.ly/31bmftK Links to the other session by Pragya Tiwari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ0fnLUo45o&t=719s Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFest/?fref=ts Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari
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Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari

Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy: Chintan Chandrachud, Christophe Jaffrelot, Manoranjan Byapari, Sukhadeo Thorat and Pragya Tiwari Chintan Chandrachud is an associate at a leading international law firm in London. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, international arbitration and tax litigation. He is the author of Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom and writes frequently for Indian newspapers, including The Indian Express and The Hindu. Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the King’s India Institute in London. Dr. Jaffrelot’s recent publications include, The Pakistan Paradox, Business and Politics in India, The Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India and Bhimrao Ambedkar, Ek Jivni. Sukhadeo Thorat is an economist by training and has done research on rural poverty and agricultural growth and the economics of the caste system, amongst other subjects. He has served as the founding Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Chairman of the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Thorat has been awarded Honorary D.Litt, D.Sc, D.S. (Doctor of Education) and LLD Degrees by 12 universities. He has published 19 books and around 100 research papers. In 2008, Thorat was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, the Mother Teresa International Award, the Babasaheb Ambedkar Ratna Award by the Delhi government for his dedication and extraordinary contributions on the works and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar and, most recently, the Dr. Ambedkar National Award for Social Understanding and Upliftment of Weaker Section. Pragya Tiwari is a journalist who has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and edited publications such as Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture and Vice. She currently works as a policy and culture consultant. Dr. Ambedkar and His Legacy: Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar's vision has framed and sustained the very idea of Ind ia. His sweeping scholarship, his essential courage and humanity and his role in the making of the Indian Constitution have made him the most enduring icon of modern India. Ambedkar's life and philosophy combined fierce idealism and cerebral pragmatism. A century and quarter after his birth, as political interests of varied hues struggle to own and appropriate his legacy, a distinguished and diverse panel assesses his battle for equality and its aftermath. THE JAIPUR LITERATURE FESTIVAL Described as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas. The past decade has seen it transform into a global literary phenomenon having hosted nearly 2000 speakers and welcoming over a million book lovers from across India and the globe. Our core values remain unchanged: to serve as a democratic, non-aligned platform offering free and fair access. Every year, the Festival brings together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, business leaders, sports people and entertainers on one stage to champion the freedom to express and engage in thoughtful debate and dialogue. Festival Co Directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple, alongside Producer Sanjoy K Roy and Teamwork Arts, create a platform for an array of speakers to debate, discuss and present their ideas in the annual five-day programme set against the backdrop of Rajasthan's stunning cultural heritage and the Diggi Palace in the state capital Jaipur. Past speakers have ranged from Nobel Laureates His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, J.M. Coetzee, Muhammad Yunus and Orhan Pamuk, Man Booker Prize winners Ben Okri, Howard Jacobson, Margaret Atwood, Marlon James, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Beatty and Yan Martel, Pulitzer Prize winners Andrew Sean Greer, Benjamin Moser, Colson Whitehead and Jhumpa Lahiri, Sahitya Akademi winners Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, M.T. Vasudevan Nair as well as the late Girish Karnad, Mahasweta Devi and U.R. Ananthamurthy along with literary luminaries including Amish Tripathi, Chima¬manda Ngozi Adichie, Vikram Chandra and Vikram Seth. An annual event that goes beyond literature, the Festival has also hosted Amartya Sen, Amitabh Bachchan, the late A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Fry, Thomas Piketty and former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai. The Jaipur Literature Festival is a flagship event of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 33 highly acclaimed performing arts, visual arts and literary festivals across more than 40 cities globally. Link to our website: https://www.jaipurliteraturefestival.org Link to Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 sessions: https://bit.ly/3bZZgaD Social media links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JaipurLitFes... Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaipurLitFest/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaipurlitfest/
Do Digital Platforms Still Want Viral News?-Sattvik Mishra, Andre Borges, Pragya Tiwari & Abhinandan
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Do Digital Platforms Still Want Viral News?-Sattvik Mishra, Andre Borges, Pragya Tiwari & Abhinandan

Roli Pulse in association with Newslaundry. Watch Sattvik Mishra (CEO and Co-Founder, ScoopWhoop), Andre Borges (Content Creator, Pocket Aces), and Pragya Tiwari (Journalist and Policy Consultant) in conversation with Abhinandan Sekhri (Co-Founder, Newslaundry) on 'Do Digital Platforms Still Want Viral News?' Newslaundry: News and news on the news. Slants, compromises, biases, praise, brickbats and 'news-views' mix ups, but crediting the devil where due. Here nothing is off limits. We say it like it is and appreciate others who do. Support independent media and subscribe to Newslaundry: http://bit.ly/paytokeepnewsfree Roli Books is a full-spectrum Indian trade publishing house. Roli Pulse is the digital arm of Roli Books. Check out Roli Books at https://rolibooks.com/ For more videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2xhiiaA You can also follow Roli Books here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoliBooksIndia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoliBooks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rolibooks/
Vandana Shiva and Pragya Tiwari on Slow Living
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Vandana Shiva and Pragya Tiwari on Slow Living

Physicist, environmentalist and eco-feminist Dr Vandana Shiva chats with journalist and policy consultant Pragya Tiwari on Slow Living. They discuss the climate emergency; ethical eating, clothing and living; conserving biodiversity and simple choices individuals, communities and nations can make to save the Earth. Vandana Shiva is the co-author of the upcoming book with Shreya Jani titled Slow Living, to be published by Roli Books. Roli Books is a full-spectrum Indian trade publishing house. Roli Pulse is the digital arm of Roli Books. Check out Roli Books at https://rolibooks.com/ For more videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDaff-YIZDw1Xa4gIVK7ANw You can also follow Roli Books here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RoliBooksIndia/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoliBooks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rolibooks/
India's lockdown: Narratives of inequality and Islamophobia | The Listening Post (Full)
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India's lockdown: Narratives of inequality and Islamophobia | The Listening Post (Full)

On this episode of The Listening Post: India's lockdown has magnified two of the country's most serious social ills: inequality and Islamophobia. Plus, what is it like to photograph the coronavirus pandemic? India's lockdown: Narratives of inequality and Islamophobia India is now one month into the world's biggest lockdown. Just hours before it was announced, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with media owners and editors and asked them to "serve as a link between the government and people" - in other words, to produce positive news stories. Simple request or tacit warning? The pandemic has also exacerbated a chronic condition in Indian news media - Islamophobia. Some outlets have even accused Muslims of creating and spreading the virus, a hateful narrative that not only plays right into the hands of Modi's BJP government, but also leaves millions bereft of potentially lifesaving information. Contributors: Pragya Tiwari - Delhi-based writer Betwa Sharma - politics editor, HuffPost India Barkha Dutt - editor, Mojo Arfa Khanum Sherwani - senior editor, The Wire On our radar: Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about contact tracing - the hi-tech means of tracking the COVID-19 outbreak - and why European countries are struggling to implement it. Portrait of a pandemic: Capturing the spaces we call home Lockdown has changed everything - millions have been confined to their homes and public spaces have been left deserted. While journalists, like everyone else, have struggled to adapt to new and unprecedented working conditions, photojournalists have found opportunity amid the adversity. The Listening Post's Flo Phillips talks to three photographers - each with a unique perspective on life under lockdown - and how it has changed the way we inhabit the spaces in which we live. Contributors: Marzio Toniolo - teacher and photographer Phil Penman - photographer Ravi Choudhary - photographer, Press Trust of India - Note: Our report on Indian media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic contained two errors that we have now corrected. We had said "half a billion" Indians live below the poverty line. The actual number is 270,000,000 - over a quarter of a billion. We had also said that India's lockdown began seven weeks after the WHO announced the pandemic. In fact the lockdown was announced seven weeks after the WHO called the coronavirus a global public health crisis. - - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
How Arnab Goswami changed India's TV debate | The Listening Post
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How Arnab Goswami changed India's TV debate | The Listening Post

Over the past 10 years, viewers in India have witnessed the rise of a new breed of news anchor: brash, aggressive and unapologetically nationalistic. They trade in conflict, fear and spectacle - a formula that tends to pay off in the ratings and online. The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi looks closely at a prime practitioner of this news style: Arnab Goswami of Republic TV. Contributors: Pragya Tiwari - Delhi-based writer Kunal Kamra - Comedian Aditya Raj Kaul - Former senior editor, Republic TV Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Speaking up about the coronavirus – but at what cost? | The Listening Post
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Speaking up about the coronavirus – but at what cost? | The Listening Post

On The Listening Post this week: For a moment, China saw public anger and real news reporting about the coronavirus go uncensored. How come? Plus, the sound and fury of India's news anchors. Speaking up about the coronavirus – but at what cost? The death of Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has caused collective outrage online. Li was amongst the first to raise the alarm. He was then taken into custody and forced to confess to wrongdoing - spreading rumours - essentially for doing his job. It is rare for the Chinese to openly criticise the government; rarer still when those criticisms on social media are not instantly deleted by censors. And for Chinese journalists, there was a temporary window that opened for some hard-hitting investigative reporting. It appears that that window has since been closed - replaced by what Beijing calls "managed transparency". Contributors: Jane Li -Tech reporter, Quartz Maria Repnikova - Assistant professor, Georgia State University Muyi Xiao - Visuals editor, ChinaFile Liu Xin - Host and journalist, CGTN On our radar: Richard Gizbert speaks to Filipina journalist Maria Ressa, head of the news website Rappler, about President Rodrigo Duterte's move to shut down ABS-CBN, the country's leading broadcaster. Arnab Goswami and the newsification of hate in India Over the past decade, Indians have witnessed the rise of a new breed of news anchor: brash, aggressive, unapologetically nationalistic. They trade in conflict, fear and spectacle - it is a formula that tends to pay off in the ratings and online. The Listening Post's Meenakshi Ravi looks closely at a prime practitioner of this news style: Arnab Goswami of Republic TV. Contributors: Pragya Tiwari - Delhi-based writer Kunal Kamra - Comedian Aditya Raj Kaul - Former senior editor, Republic TV Manisha Pande - Executive editor, Newslaundry - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Muslims Are In The Recieving Line In Politics Of Hate: Senior Journalist Pragya Tiwari
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Muslims Are In The Recieving Line In Politics Of Hate: Senior Journalist Pragya Tiwari

"I ask you, would the average Muslim feel threatened if AAP was in government or if BJP was in government? They are in receiving line in this kind of politics of hate", says senior journalist Pragya Tiwari. NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad. NDTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile. Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv?sub_confirmation=1 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndtv Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndtv Download the NDTV Apps: http://www.ndtv.com/page/apps Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv.com/video?yt
The Big Fight | Citizenship Act: Fundamentally Changing India?
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The Big Fight | Citizenship Act: Fundamentally Changing India?

It's been another tectonic week in India. A week that has seen parliament pass the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 that was signed into law by the President at midnight. The bill has opened two separate fronts in India. In the Northeast, there are concerns that 'outsiders' will take over their tradition, culture and livelihood. These concerns have sparked violent protests, particularly in Assam. On a bigger scale, across the country, not only Opposition parties but also many concerned citizens and even international community have flagged the concern about whether this bill actually runs contrary to the spirit of India's constitution. On The Big Fight, we debate: Is the new Citizenship Act going to fundamentally change India? NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad. NDTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile. Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv?sub_confirmation=1 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndtv Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndtv Download the NDTV Apps: http://www.ndtv.com/page/apps Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv.com/video?yt
Left, Right & Centre | The Pragya Paradox: Maximum Controversy, Muted Action
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Left, Right & Centre | The Pragya Paradox: Maximum Controversy, Muted Action

After the controversial remark made by BJP MP Pragya Thakur on Nathuram Godse in Parliament, her party has taken a step to remove her from the defence panel. On Left, Right and Centre we ask if this token step is enough or whether the BJP needs to take a concrete action against her? NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad. NDTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile. Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/ndtv?sub_confirmation=1 Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ndtv Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ndtv Download the NDTV Apps: http://www.ndtv.com/page/apps Watch more videos: http://www.ndtv.com/video?yt
Jaswant Singh
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Jaswant Singh

Meera Sanyal
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Meera Sanyal

Shashi Tharoor
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Shashi Tharoor

Sandeep Dixit
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Sandeep Dixit

Supriya Sule
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Supriya Sule

Chandan Mitra
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Chandan Mitra

Chandan Mitra, 58, grew up in Hooghly and Kolkata, went to college in Delhi and Oxford, and started his career as a journalist with daily newspapers. In his younger days, Mitra worked for the Janta Party, became involved with leftist movements, helped manage Shashi Tharoor’s campaign for college elections and briefly joined the Labour Party in England. He eventually became a member of the BJP and has served two terms as a Rajya Sabha MP for the party. He has also continued his work as a journalist and editor, buying control of The Pioneer in 1998. In the upcoming elections Mitra will contest for a Lok Sabha seat for the first time, from his hometown of Hooghly. An OIJO Production www.oijo.in | facebook.com/OIJOIndia | @Oioijo Producer - Kavi Bhansali Interviewer - Pragya Tiwari Sound - Raghav Suthaud
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