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Audio podcast: State polls a bellwether for our democracy, semi-final for 2024

by admin|19 February 202219 February 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 19, 2022 Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. 2022 is a key electoral year for India. Five states go to the polls, and there is the Presidential election too. There is no...

Audio podcast: What farmers taught us about democracy and inclusiveness

by admin|27 November 202127 November 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 27, 2021 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Over the past seven years, as the juggernaut of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party has rolled on, democracy...

Audio podcast: The BJP finds a new ‘anti-national’ – the farmer

by admin|09 October 202109 October 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer October 9, 2021 Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Farmers in India have been protesting for over a year against three agriculture laws that they believe will leave them at the mercy of...

Audio podcast: Free Nodeep Kaur

by admin|13 February 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 13, 2021 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Who exactly is Nodeep Kaur and why has her arrest during the ongoing farmer protests in Delhi sparked an international outcry? What...

Protesting farmers, the satyagrahis amongst us

by admin|03 December 202003 December 2020|All Indians Matter

Tushar Gandhi, December 3, 2020 A hundred years after two of the most crucial pre-Independence farm satyagrahas lead by Mahatma Gandhi, the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917 and the Kheda Satyagraha in 1918, India is witnessing another major farmer satyagraha. It...

Audio podcast: Why India’s agriculture sector is in perpetual crisis

by admin|28 October 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer October 28, 2020 “Until the problems of rural India are resolved, the aspirations of urban India will never be fulfilled.” Barun Mitra, respected policy expert, multiple award winner and libertarian, works extensively with farmers at the grassroots level....