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Audio podcast: How Sri Lanka’s economic collapse affects India

by admin|16 April 202216 April 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer April 16, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. The situation in Sri Lanka is alarming – inflation is at a dizzying 17%, people are dying of hunger and even while...

Audio podcast: How does the Russia-Ukraine standoff affect India?

by admin|12 February 202212 February 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 12, 2022 Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. You must have heard of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. As I record this, more than 100,000 Russian soldiers have taken up positions along the Ukraine...

Audio podcast: Union Budget – the juggling act is on

by admin|15 January 202215 January 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 15, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Even as the first advance estimates peg India’s economic growth for 2021-22 at 9.2%, there are a couple of factors looming over...

Audio podcast: A high-stakes, high-altitude standoff

by admin|16 September 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Picture: On Finger 4, north of Pangong Tso lake (above), Indian and Chinese troops were deployed a few hundred metres apart. On its south bank, they were occupying heights that overlooked each other’s camps and vital road links. Podcast transcript...

Audio podcast: Is India’s economic recovery really on track?

by admin|15 August 202016 August 2020|All Indians Matter

Podcast transcript Hello and welcome. I am Ashraf Engineer, a communication consultant, but I was a journalist for 17 years before changing streams. While I changed professions, the journalism bug never left me. Over the years, I continued writing...

The pandemic is an opportunity to remake Mumbai

by admin|24 May 202024 May 2020|All Indians Matter

Sujata Anandan May 25, 2020 As the number of deaths due to coronavirus in Maharashtra exceeds all other states in the country, and India overtakes China, it might be worthwhile to recall the similarities between this pandemic and the bubonic...

Double whammy for India: coronavirus and the slowdown

by admin|18 March 202018 March 2020|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer March 19, 2020 Slowing growth, diminished cash flows, a seemingly unending banking crisis, and now the coronavirus… it’s no wonder the ‘R’ word is no longer being mentioned in hushed whispers. Even until the beginning of 2019, though...