In a 28-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Prashant Bhushan first addressed the question: do Arnab Goswami’s WhatsApp conversations about the Balakot strike breach the Official Secrets Act? He said: “If you are telling a journalist and he…
In a 47-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire in which Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia spoke at length about steps he thinks the Finance Minister should announce in the budget particularly to do with what he called fixing the…
In an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire Arun Shourie, who is also a reputed author and a former editor of the Indian Express, said the Modi government does not understand the character and traditions of the Sikh community.…
In an interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire Dushyant Dave accepted that by attempting to arbitrate between the farmers and the government the Supreme Court appears to have overreached itself and intruded into the domain of the executive. In…
In a comprehensive interview to Karan Thapar for The WireProf. Gagandeep Kang, who works at The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, said the precedent set by the Ebola and Nipah vaccines, both of which…
In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire to mark the launch of his book ‘Our Hindu Rashtra: What it is, how we got here, Aakar Patel spoke at length about his analysis of Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra. He…
In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Harsh Mander also spoke about his personal experience at India’s premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences. In October, when he got Covid, he got himself admitted into a general ward…
In an interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Ramachandra Guha spelt out in detail why he believes the Gandhis are both weakening Congress whilst strengthening the Modi government. First, he says the Gandhis don’t have a consistent ideology. “Sonia…
In an nterview to Karan Thapar for The Wire K. C. Singh said that like several foreign ministers before him Mr. Jaishankar faces a situation where grand policy decisions are made by the Prime Minister and his is a secondary…
In a wide ranging and at times rambling 55-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire Chetan Bhagat said the hard right – which he said is different from the hindu right – threatens India’s interests. This is because they…