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NREGA budget cut couldn’t have come at a worse time
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Ashraf Engineer February 11, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. This government has never been too keen about the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, better known as NREGA, despite the...
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‘Elgar Parishad case defies logic, creates perpetual sense of disbelief’
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Ashraf Engineer February 8, 2023 The Elgar Parishad case, in which several activists have been accused of making speeches that led to violence in Bhima Koregaon near Pune in 2018, drags on. Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde, lawyer-activist Sudha Bhardwaj and...
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Layoff pandemic grips tech industry
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Ashraf Engineer February 4, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. All of us either know of someone who’s been laid off or have at least read about the massive numbers of employees...
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All Indians Matter In-Depth series: Gandhi – The Final Years
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Ashraf Engineer January 30, 2023 On Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary, All Indians Matter launches a six-part series that takes you on a journey through the last years of his life. Those years were a saga by themselves, in many ways...
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Why BBC documentary on Gujarat riots really angers Modi
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Ashraf Engineer January 28, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. The now famous BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the 2002 Gujarat riots during his tenure...
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‘Carbon tax or rise in general tax rates for citizens possible to bridge climate finance gap’
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Ashraf Engineer January 25, 2023 India’s compliance with climate action hinges on funding – roughly $2.5 trillion by 2030, much of it from developed nations. This represents significant climate finance opportunities as well as challenges. What is India up against...
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How trustees, govt are causing Gandhian institutions to implode
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Tushar Gandhi January 23, 2023 “Let ‘Gandhism’ be destroyed if it stands for error. Truth and Ahimsa will never be destroyed; but if ‘Gandhism’ is another name for sectarianism, it deserves to be destroyed. If I were to know, after...
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Joshimath sinks under the weight of ‘vikas’ and apathy
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Ashraf Engineer January 21, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. You would have seen the horrifying pictures of a sinking Joshimath, the pilgrim stopover in Uttarakhand. Land subsidence caused houses and roads...
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‘East Pakistan’s Partition migrants’ silence is a scream coming from their trauma’
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Ashraf Engineer January 18, 2023 What is ‘home’? What does it mean to belong to a place? Being forced to leave what you consider home can leave emotional scars that are handed down the generations. That is why the migration...
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How should airlines deal with flyers going berserk?
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Ashraf Engineer January 14, 2023 EPISODE TRANSCIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer It’s been a turbulent time in the skies. Several incidents of shocking behaviour by flyers have come to light, the most high-profile...
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