India

This Sunday, November 2, over 55,000 runners will traverse all five boroughs of New York City in the TCS New York City Marathon. For the twelfth consecutive year, India’s Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)—a multinational information technology company headquartered in Mumbai, India—will function as the event’s title sponsor, channeling millions into...

Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute, discusses Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to China for the 25th SCO Summit, where he met with leaders from China, Russia, Iran, and Central Asia. Prashad explains how Modi’s trip marks a turning point in global politics, exposing the failure...

Abdul Rahman, a reporter with People’s Dispatch, joins the show to unpack the meeting between Donald Trump and India’s far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where Modi pushed a so-called “mega partnership” between the two countries. Rahman sheds light on the growing grassroots resistance across India—from student-led movements to massive farmer...

Abdul Rahman, a reporter with People’s Dispatch, joins the show to unpack the meeting between Donald Trump and India’s far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where Modi pushed a so-called “mega partnership” between the two countries. Rahman sheds light on the growing grassroots resistance across India—from student-led movements to massive farmer...

Roger McKenzie, the International Editor of the Morning Star and member of the Communist Party of Britain joins the show to discuss the 16th annual BRICS summit of around 20 world leaders in Kazan, Russia. The BRICS have already called for a ceasefire in Gaza, but will their efforts to...

In the ten years Narenda Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has held power, Modi has presided over an evisceration of democratic rights in India. He has institutionalized emergency laws within the Constitution, enabling the government to “unilaterally designate anyone as a terrorist without any proof.” Suchitra Vijayan, author...

The right-wing Modi government raided the offices and arrested the Editor-in-Chief of Newsclick, a major progressive news outlet, last October. Now, they’re preparing an over 8,000-page document of false accusations saying the outlet is controlled by the Chinese government, and responsible for everything from the farmers’ protests to unrest in...

In the early morning of October 3, the homes of over 100 journalists, contractors, and former employees associated with the progressive news outlets NewsClick and Peoples Dispatch, as well as Tricontinental Research Service, were raided by Indian authorities. Zoe Alexandra the co-editor of Peoples Dispatch, discusses the sweeping crackdown on...

The BRICS alliance of emerging major economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa –  concluded its 15th Summit in Johannesburg with a major announcement. Six new countries have been invited into BRICS membership: Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia.  With three major oil-exporting nations set...

Thousands of Indian farmers, who had been marching in the state of Maharashtra led by a Communist-led farmers’ organization (AIKS), concluded their protest on March 18 with the government accepting their demands. Vikas Rawal, Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharalal Nehru University, discusses...