Raghav's Take https://www.thequint.com/collection/raghavs-take en 2024 The Quint The Quint’s editor-in-chief Raghav Bahl speaks on business, politics and policies. https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a71ebb2a-2958-11ef-a45e-6bfbd413e7cc/image/6a7cf2a1a8af5c32bceede8dd16b1a3b.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress Raghav's Take https://www.thequint.com/collection/raghavs-take no episodic The Quint The Quint’s editor-in-chief Raghav Bahl speaks on business, politics and policies. The Quint’s editor-in-chief Raghav Bahl speaks on business, politics and policies.

]]> The Quint studio@ideabrews.com Cricket vs Stock Market: The Shocking Connection Nobody Talks About | The Quint India’s record-breaking T20 World Cup win saw an ecstatic celebration, but the joy was short-lived as stock markets crashed the next morning due to global events. Studies show cricket defeats hit markets harder than wins. Raghav Bahl asks: Can India’s cricket and equity cults shape each other’s future? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:11:00 -0000 full The Quint India’s record-breaking T20 World Cup win saw an ecstatic celebration, but the joy was short-lived as stock markets crashed the next morning due to global events. Studies show cricket defeats hit markets harder than wins. Raghav Bahl asks: Can India’s cricket and equity cults shape each other’s future? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices India’s record-breaking T20 World Cup win saw an ecstatic celebration, but the joy was short-lived as stock markets crashed the next morning due to global events. Studies show cricket defeats hit markets harder than wins. Raghav Bahl asks: Can India’s cricket and equity cults shape each other’s future?

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]]> 751 no 9 Bold Resolutions to Save India’s Democracy & Economy in 2026 | The Quint We break down nine vital resolutions India needs in 2026 to strengthen its democracy and revive its economy. We cover the key ideas shaping the debate on democratic trust, election integrity, judicial accountability, economic reforms, and the deep structural issues holding India back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:30:00 -0000 full The Quint We break down nine vital resolutions India needs in 2026 to strengthen its democracy and revive its economy. We cover the key ideas shaping the debate on democratic trust, election integrity, judicial accountability, economic reforms, and the deep structural issues holding India back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices We break down nine vital resolutions India needs in 2026 to strengthen its democracy and revive its economy. We cover the key ideas shaping the debate on democratic trust, election integrity, judicial accountability, economic reforms, and the deep structural issues holding India back.

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]]> 817 no India Is the 3rd Largest Economy, So Why Does It Still Feel Weak? India just posted a stunning 8.2% GDP growth number. At the same time, the rupee slid sharply and interest rates were cut. Economists argued. Politicians celebrated. Twitter exploded. But here’s the uncomfortable question: do these numbers actually reflect economic strength? This video breaks down why GDP, the number we obsess over the most, is a deeply imperfect measure. It’s an estimate, not a hard fact. It can rise even when real lives don’t improve. And it often distracts us from what actually matters. Instead of debating whether GDP is ‘real’ or ‘cooked’, this conversation looks at something more tangible: economic muscle. Not slogans. Not rankings. Real capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:30:00 -0000 full The Quint India just posted a stunning 8.2% GDP growth number. At the same time, the rupee slid sharply and interest rates were cut. Economists argued. Politicians celebrated. Twitter exploded. But here’s the uncomfortable question: do these numbers actually reflect economic strength? This video breaks down why GDP, the number we obsess over the most, is a deeply imperfect measure. It’s an estimate, not a hard fact. It can rise even when real lives don’t improve. And it often distracts us from what actually matters. Instead of debating whether GDP is ‘real’ or ‘cooked’, this conversation looks at something more tangible: economic muscle. Not slogans. Not rankings. Real capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices India just posted a stunning 8.2% GDP growth number. At the same time, the rupee slid sharply and interest rates were cut. Economists argued. Politicians celebrated. Twitter exploded. But here’s the uncomfortable question: do these numbers actually reflect economic strength? This video breaks down why GDP, the number we obsess over the most, is a deeply imperfect measure. It’s an estimate, not a hard fact. It can rise even when real lives don’t improve. And it often distracts us from what actually matters. Instead of debating whether GDP is ‘real’ or ‘cooked’, this conversation looks at something more tangible: economic muscle. Not slogans. Not rankings. Real capacity.

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]]> 696 no What If India Had Adopted Proportional Representation Like South Africa? In this video, we explore a compelling Raghav's Take that revisits an important 'what-if' question: What if India had built its democratic system on Proportional Representation (PR), like South Africa did in 1994? After the end of apartheid, South Africa faced violent ethnic conflict, deep political divisions, and existential fear—much like India did at the time of independence. Yet, its negotiated transition embraced a proportional system that ensured representation for multiple groups and avoided winner-takes-all outcomes. We break down: • What Proportional Representation (PR) means and how it worked in South Africa • How the 1994 elections brought inclusive outcomes and power-sharing • Why India chose the First Past the Post (FPTP) system instead • Whether India’s democracy would look different today under PR • Key lessons for electoral reform and representative politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:52:00 -0000 full The Quint In this video, we explore a compelling Raghav's Take that revisits an important 'what-if' question: What if India had built its democratic system on Proportional Representation (PR), like South Africa did in 1994? After the end of apartheid, South Africa faced violent ethnic conflict, deep political divisions, and existential fear—much like India did at the time of independence. Yet, its negotiated transition embraced a proportional system that ensured representation for multiple groups and avoided winner-takes-all outcomes. We break down: • What Proportional Representation (PR) means and how it worked in South Africa • How the 1994 elections brought inclusive outcomes and power-sharing • Why India chose the First Past the Post (FPTP) system instead • Whether India’s democracy would look different today under PR • Key lessons for electoral reform and representative politics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this video, we explore a compelling Raghav's Take that revisits an important 'what-if' question: What if India had built its democratic system on Proportional Representation (PR), like South Africa did in 1994? After the end of apartheid, South Africa faced violent ethnic conflict, deep political divisions, and existential fear—much like India did at the time of independence. Yet, its negotiated transition embraced a proportional system that ensured representation for multiple groups and avoided winner-takes-all outcomes. We break down: • What Proportional Representation (PR) means and how it worked in South Africa • How the 1994 elections brought inclusive outcomes and power-sharing • Why India chose the First Past the Post (FPTP) system instead • Whether India’s democracy would look different today under PR • Key lessons for electoral reform and representative politics

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]]> 742 no What if India's Democracy Was Built on Proportional Representation? | The Quint What if India didn’t use First Past the Post (FPTP) for its parliamentary elections? In this video, we break down The Quint’s opinion on how India’s electoral system shapes our democracy and why many of the world’s top democracies use Proportional Representation (PR) instead. We explore how FPTP can amplify majorities with minority vote shares, how PR could boost inclusion, and whether India’s founding leaders missed an opportunity to build a different kind of democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:42:00 -0000 full The Quint What if India didn’t use First Past the Post (FPTP) for its parliamentary elections? In this video, we break down The Quint’s opinion on how India’s electoral system shapes our democracy and why many of the world’s top democracies use Proportional Representation (PR) instead. We explore how FPTP can amplify majorities with minority vote shares, how PR could boost inclusion, and whether India’s founding leaders missed an opportunity to build a different kind of democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices What if India didn’t use First Past the Post (FPTP) for its parliamentary elections? In this video, we break down The Quint’s opinion on how India’s electoral system shapes our democracy and why many of the world’s top democracies use Proportional Representation (PR) instead. We explore how FPTP can amplify majorities with minority vote shares, how PR could boost inclusion, and whether India’s founding leaders missed an opportunity to build a different kind of democracy.

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]]> 782 no Between MAGA and the Left: Is a New Center Emerging in the U.S.? In an America split between red rage and blue outrage, could the center be making a comeback? Raghav Bahl’s sharp political chronicle, “Is Centrist Thought Re-Emerging in Intensely Polarized America?”, travels through Donald Trump’s America — DTA, the self-proclaimed “Divine Democracy.” Through the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika’s stunning act of forgiveness, and unexpected moments of empathy from Jimmy Kimmel and Megyn Kelly, this film traces the faint, fragile revival of moderation and civility in a country consumed by extremes. Is this the beginning of a centrist awakening — or just a fleeting pause before the next storm? Watch Raghav Bahl decode the moral paradox of modern America: Can reason still survive when hate is holy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:48:00 -0000 full The Quint In an America split between red rage and blue outrage, could the center be making a comeback? Raghav Bahl’s sharp political chronicle, “Is Centrist Thought Re-Emerging in Intensely Polarized America?”, travels through Donald Trump’s America — DTA, the self-proclaimed “Divine Democracy.” Through the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika’s stunning act of forgiveness, and unexpected moments of empathy from Jimmy Kimmel and Megyn Kelly, this film traces the faint, fragile revival of moderation and civility in a country consumed by extremes. Is this the beginning of a centrist awakening — or just a fleeting pause before the next storm? Watch Raghav Bahl decode the moral paradox of modern America: Can reason still survive when hate is holy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In an America split between red rage and blue outrage, could the center be making a comeback? Raghav Bahl’s sharp political chronicle, “Is Centrist Thought Re-Emerging in Intensely Polarized America?”, travels through Donald Trump’s America — DTA, the self-proclaimed “Divine Democracy.” Through the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, his widow Erika’s stunning act of forgiveness, and unexpected moments of empathy from Jimmy Kimmel and Megyn Kelly, this film traces the faint, fragile revival of moderation and civility in a country consumed by extremes. Is this the beginning of a centrist awakening — or just a fleeting pause before the next storm? Watch Raghav Bahl decode the moral paradox of modern America: Can reason still survive when hate is holy?

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]]> 669 no How the *@#$ Will AI Change Our World? 5 Questions That Could Redefine Humanity | The Quint In Part 2 of his provocative AI series, Raghav Bahl continues his stream-of-consciousness dive into the post-AI world. After asking *“What the @#$ is AI?” in Part 1, he now takes on the bigger question — *“How the @#$ will AI change our world?” From the rise of trillionaires and tech oligarchies to the collapse of traditional labour markets, Bahl explores five existential questions: Will AI flip the Capital-Labour balance forever? Can universal income and robot taxes save us from inequality? Will worklessness free us—or destroy us? Could AI trigger digital colonialism between nations? And will physical experiences gain value in a hyper-digital world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:24:00 -0000 full The Quint In Part 2 of his provocative AI series, Raghav Bahl continues his stream-of-consciousness dive into the post-AI world. After asking *“What the @#$ is AI?” in Part 1, he now takes on the bigger question — *“How the @#$ will AI change our world?” From the rise of trillionaires and tech oligarchies to the collapse of traditional labour markets, Bahl explores five existential questions: Will AI flip the Capital-Labour balance forever? Can universal income and robot taxes save us from inequality? Will worklessness free us—or destroy us? Could AI trigger digital colonialism between nations? And will physical experiences gain value in a hyper-digital world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In Part 2 of his provocative AI series, Raghav Bahl continues his stream-of-consciousness dive into the post-AI world. After asking *“What the @#$ is AI?” in Part 1, he now takes on the bigger question — *“How the @#$ will AI change our world?” From the rise of trillionaires and tech oligarchies to the collapse of traditional labour markets, Bahl explores five existential questions: Will AI flip the Capital-Labour balance forever? Can universal income and robot taxes save us from inequality? Will worklessness free us—or destroy us? Could AI trigger digital colonialism between nations? And will physical experiences gain value in a hyper-digital world?

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]]> 812 no Part 1: What The *@#$ is AI? Why in Hell is it Taking My Job! | Raghav's Take | The Quint In this episode of Raghav’s Take, we dive into the chaotic, fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence and how it’s reshaping everything we know. From writing desks to codebases, from newsroom editors to lights-out factories run by robots, AI is upending industries at a pace that challenges classical economic thinking. While understanding AI in its entirety remains a challenge, its power and its consequences are impossible to ignore. Raghav Bahl breaks down what AI is really doing to our jobs, our economy, and our future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:10:00 -0000 full The Quint In this episode of Raghav’s Take, we dive into the chaotic, fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence and how it’s reshaping everything we know. From writing desks to codebases, from newsroom editors to lights-out factories run by robots, AI is upending industries at a pace that challenges classical economic thinking. While understanding AI in its entirety remains a challenge, its power and its consequences are impossible to ignore. Raghav Bahl breaks down what AI is really doing to our jobs, our economy, and our future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this episode of Raghav’s Take, we dive into the chaotic, fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence and how it’s reshaping everything we know. From writing desks to codebases, from newsroom editors to lights-out factories run by robots, AI is upending industries at a pace that challenges classical economic thinking. While understanding AI in its entirety remains a challenge, its power and its consequences are impossible to ignore. Raghav Bahl breaks down what AI is really doing to our jobs, our economy, and our future.

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]]> 668 no Why India's Goldilocks Economy is Trapped in 'Invisible Spectrum' of (Un)Reforms | The Quint India’s macroeconomy looks strong: low inflation, falling fiscal deficit, record capex, booming stock markets. Yet private investment and consumption are stagnant. In this sharp analysis, Raghav Bahl explores why India’s so-called Goldilocks Economy is anxious, trapped in what he calls the 'Invisible Spectrum' of un-reforms. From FDI outflows and millionaire migration to bans on new industries, judicial overreach, and endless tax disputes — the hidden forces sapping growth are revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:11:00 -0000 full The Quint India’s macroeconomy looks strong: low inflation, falling fiscal deficit, record capex, booming stock markets. Yet private investment and consumption are stagnant. In this sharp analysis, Raghav Bahl explores why India’s so-called Goldilocks Economy is anxious, trapped in what he calls the 'Invisible Spectrum' of un-reforms. From FDI outflows and millionaire migration to bans on new industries, judicial overreach, and endless tax disputes — the hidden forces sapping growth are revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices India’s macroeconomy looks strong: low inflation, falling fiscal deficit, record capex, booming stock markets. Yet private investment and consumption are stagnant. In this sharp analysis, Raghav Bahl explores why India’s so-called Goldilocks Economy is anxious, trapped in what he calls the 'Invisible Spectrum' of un-reforms. From FDI outflows and millionaire migration to bans on new industries, judicial overreach, and endless tax disputes — the hidden forces sapping growth are revealed.

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]]> 759 no Reimagine GST 2.0, Don’t Let Excesses Return Via Backdoor | Raghav’s Take | The Quint India's GST is critiqued as a 'loser' using the ludicrous example of popcorn, which was earlier taxed at three different rates: 5%, 12%, and 18%. This complexity enabled corruption and draconian abuse. Will the proposed reforms truly fix it? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl breaks down the new GST structure, the business community’s response, and his five essential fixes to make GST a fair, transparent, and workable tax system. (Note: The video was recorded before the new GST rates were announced.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:37:00 -0000 full The Quint India's GST is critiqued as a 'loser' using the ludicrous example of popcorn, which was earlier taxed at three different rates: 5%, 12%, and 18%. This complexity enabled corruption and draconian abuse. Will the proposed reforms truly fix it? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl breaks down the new GST structure, the business community’s response, and his five essential fixes to make GST a fair, transparent, and workable tax system. (Note: The video was recorded before the new GST rates were announced.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices India's GST is critiqued as a 'loser' using the ludicrous example of popcorn, which was earlier taxed at three different rates: 5%, 12%, and 18%. This complexity enabled corruption and draconian abuse. Will the proposed reforms truly fix it? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl breaks down the new GST structure, the business community’s response, and his five essential fixes to make GST a fair, transparent, and workable tax system. (Note: The video was recorded before the new GST rates were announced.)

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]]> 624 no Overawed by Trump? No, India’s Got Its Own Success to Build On: Raghav's Take | The Quint India and America have never had a simple relationship - moving from supplicants to adversaries, and finally, strategic partners. But with Donald Trump shaking up global trade, where does that leave India? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl argues why India should not feel overawed or bullied by America and how our regulations, digital power, and economic resilience give us an edge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:19:00 -0000 full The Quint India and America have never had a simple relationship - moving from supplicants to adversaries, and finally, strategic partners. But with Donald Trump shaking up global trade, where does that leave India? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl argues why India should not feel overawed or bullied by America and how our regulations, digital power, and economic resilience give us an edge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices India and America have never had a simple relationship - moving from supplicants to adversaries, and finally, strategic partners. But with Donald Trump shaking up global trade, where does that leave India? In this episode of Raghav’s Take, Raghav Bahl argues why India should not feel overawed or bullied by America and how our regulations, digital power, and economic resilience give us an edge.

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]]> 611 no Dealing With Trump: Bide-Your-Timers Vs Provoked-Innocents | The Quint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:01:00 -0000 full The Quint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 624 no Obama Exposed Pakistan’s Treachery, Cemented US–India Ties | America-India-Pakistan | The Quint Barack Obama’s presidency reshaped South Asia’s geopolitics. From exposing Pakistan’s duplicity on bin Laden and nukes to backing India for a permanent UN Security Council seat, Obama left behind a legacy of mistrust with Islamabad and strengthened ties with New Delhi. This final episode of our 7-part series explores how Obama’s decisions—from drone strikes and the Abbottabad raid to defence deals and strategic diplomacy—reshaped the America-India-Pakistan equation. Watch the full series to see how 12 US presidents influenced South Asia’s balance of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:51:00 -0000 full The Quint Barack Obama’s presidency reshaped South Asia’s geopolitics. From exposing Pakistan’s duplicity on bin Laden and nukes to backing India for a permanent UN Security Council seat, Obama left behind a legacy of mistrust with Islamabad and strengthened ties with New Delhi. This final episode of our 7-part series explores how Obama’s decisions—from drone strikes and the Abbottabad raid to defence deals and strategic diplomacy—reshaped the America-India-Pakistan equation. Watch the full series to see how 12 US presidents influenced South Asia’s balance of power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Barack Obama’s presidency reshaped South Asia’s geopolitics. From exposing Pakistan’s duplicity on bin Laden and nukes to backing India for a permanent UN Security Council seat, Obama left behind a legacy of mistrust with Islamabad and strengthened ties with New Delhi. This final episode of our 7-part series explores how Obama’s decisions—from drone strikes and the Abbottabad raid to defence deals and strategic diplomacy—reshaped the America-India-Pakistan equation. Watch the full series to see how 12 US presidents influenced South Asia’s balance of power.

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]]> 662 no India "Deeply Loved" George Bush Jr For Ending Her Nuclear Isolation |America-India-Pakistan (Part6) In Part 6 of the special "America-India-Pakistan" series, Raghav Bahl dives into the transformative role played by President George Bush Jr in reshaping US-India relations. During his tenure, Bush Jr ended India's nuclear isolation, lifted economic sanctions, and fostered deep cooperation between the two nations. Despite the post-9/11 shift in US policy towards Pakistan, Bush Jr’s focus on strengthening ties with India remained pivotal. This episode explores how the India-US nuclear deal, military exercises, and shared strategic interests marked a historic period in global diplomacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:44:00 -0000 full The Quint In Part 6 of the special "America-India-Pakistan" series, Raghav Bahl dives into the transformative role played by President George Bush Jr in reshaping US-India relations. During his tenure, Bush Jr ended India's nuclear isolation, lifted economic sanctions, and fostered deep cooperation between the two nations. Despite the post-9/11 shift in US policy towards Pakistan, Bush Jr’s focus on strengthening ties with India remained pivotal. This episode explores how the India-US nuclear deal, military exercises, and shared strategic interests marked a historic period in global diplomacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In Part 6 of the special "America-India-Pakistan" series, Raghav Bahl dives into the transformative role played by President George Bush Jr in reshaping US-India relations. During his tenure, Bush Jr ended India's nuclear isolation, lifted economic sanctions, and fostered deep cooperation between the two nations. Despite the post-9/11 shift in US policy towards Pakistan, Bush Jr’s focus on strengthening ties with India remained pivotal. This episode explores how the India-US nuclear deal, military exercises, and shared strategic interests marked a historic period in global diplomacy.

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]]> 604 no US-India-Pak: Bill Clinton Raps Pak Knuckles; India Loves That Crunching Sound! | The Quint In Part 5 of the series, Raghav Bahl delves into how after the Cold War ended, India and America went from estranged democracies to strategic partners. Clinton’s five-day India visit and frosty Pakistan stopover marked the moment the balance tipped. This is how trust was built - step by step. This episode unpacks: End Of Estrangement between India and US Growing Isolation of Pakistan Clinton’s Landmark Visit to India Pressure On Pakistan Don’t miss Part 1 to 4 on Truman, Nixon, Carter and others, and stay tuned for Part 6 on George Bush Jr. and 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:18:00 -0000 full The Quint In Part 5 of the series, Raghav Bahl delves into how after the Cold War ended, India and America went from estranged democracies to strategic partners. Clinton’s five-day India visit and frosty Pakistan stopover marked the moment the balance tipped. This is how trust was built - step by step. This episode unpacks: End Of Estrangement between India and US Growing Isolation of Pakistan Clinton’s Landmark Visit to India Pressure On Pakistan Don’t miss Part 1 to 4 on Truman, Nixon, Carter and others, and stay tuned for Part 6 on George Bush Jr. and 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In Part 5 of the series, Raghav Bahl delves into how after the Cold War ended, India and America went from estranged democracies to strategic partners. Clinton’s five-day India visit and frosty Pakistan stopover marked the moment the balance tipped. This is how trust was built - step by step. This episode unpacks: End Of Estrangement between India and US Growing Isolation of Pakistan Clinton’s Landmark Visit to India Pressure On Pakistan Don’t miss Part 1 to 4 on Truman, Nixon, Carter and others, and stay tuned for Part 6 on George Bush Jr. and 9/11.

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]]> 559 no America, India & Pakistan: Nuclear Race and Afghan Jihad Era (1977–92) | Cold War PART 4 | The Quint Part 4 of Raghav Bahl’s riveting historical series on the triangular relationship between America, India, and Pakistan dives into the high-stakes Cold War era of the late 1970s through early 1990s. As the world reeled from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and South Asia drifted into nuclear brinkmanship, US foreign policy under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush underwent dramatic shifts. From Carter's brief love affair with India to Reagan's billion-dollar arms deal with Pakistan and Bush Sr's sanctions on Islamabad’s nuclear programme, this episode unpacks: 1. India’s refusal to sign the NPT 2. Pakistan’s secret nuclear ambitions 3. Reagan’s covert support for Afghan Mujahideen 4. Indira Gandhi’s frosty ties with Washington 5. The changing strategic importance of Pakistan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:31:00 -0000 full The Quint Part 4 of Raghav Bahl’s riveting historical series on the triangular relationship between America, India, and Pakistan dives into the high-stakes Cold War era of the late 1970s through early 1990s. As the world reeled from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and South Asia drifted into nuclear brinkmanship, US foreign policy under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush underwent dramatic shifts. From Carter's brief love affair with India to Reagan's billion-dollar arms deal with Pakistan and Bush Sr's sanctions on Islamabad’s nuclear programme, this episode unpacks: 1. India’s refusal to sign the NPT 2. Pakistan’s secret nuclear ambitions 3. Reagan’s covert support for Afghan Mujahideen 4. Indira Gandhi’s frosty ties with Washington 5. The changing strategic importance of Pakistan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Part 4 of Raghav Bahl’s riveting historical series on the triangular relationship between America, India, and Pakistan dives into the high-stakes Cold War era of the late 1970s through early 1990s. As the world reeled from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and South Asia drifted into nuclear brinkmanship, US foreign policy under Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush underwent dramatic shifts. From Carter's brief love affair with India to Reagan's billion-dollar arms deal with Pakistan and Bush Sr's sanctions on Islamabad’s nuclear programme, this episode unpacks:

1. India’s refusal to sign the NPT 2. Pakistan’s secret nuclear ambitions 3. Reagan’s covert support for Afghan Mujahideen 4. Indira Gandhi’s frosty ties with Washington 5. The changing strategic importance of Pakistan

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]]> 599 no Why Nixon Backed Pakistan & Hated Indira Gandhi | A Cold War Chapter That Shaped South Asia | PART 3 Why did Richard Nixon favour Pakistan while Indira Gandhi stood firm on India’s sovereignty? This video dives deep into a forgotten Cold War chapter when the US-India relationship hit rock bottom. From Nixon’s secret China deal brokered through Pakistan to his infamous "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, we decode the geopolitics that shaped South Asia. Watch how Indira Gandhi pushed back against US hostility, signed a landmark treaty with the USSR, and turned India into a nuclear power. A gripping story of diplomacy, betrayal, and resistance. 🔔 Subscribe for more episodes from our US-India-Pakistan mini-series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 17 Jul 2025 07:48:00 -0000 full The Quint Why did Richard Nixon favour Pakistan while Indira Gandhi stood firm on India’s sovereignty? This video dives deep into a forgotten Cold War chapter when the US-India relationship hit rock bottom. From Nixon’s secret China deal brokered through Pakistan to his infamous "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, we decode the geopolitics that shaped South Asia. Watch how Indira Gandhi pushed back against US hostility, signed a landmark treaty with the USSR, and turned India into a nuclear power. A gripping story of diplomacy, betrayal, and resistance. 🔔 Subscribe for more episodes from our US-India-Pakistan mini-series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Why did Richard Nixon favour Pakistan while Indira Gandhi stood firm on India’s sovereignty? This video dives deep into a forgotten Cold War chapter when the US-India relationship hit rock bottom. From Nixon’s secret China deal brokered through Pakistan to his infamous "tilt" during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, we decode the geopolitics that shaped South Asia. Watch how Indira Gandhi pushed back against US hostility, signed a landmark treaty with the USSR, and turned India into a nuclear power. A gripping story of diplomacy, betrayal, and resistance. 🔔 Subscribe for more episodes from our US-India-Pakistan mini-series.

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]]> 700 no When President Johnson Held Back Food Aid to Humiliate Indira Gandhi | PART 2 of Cold War Series In Part 2 of our Cold War mini-series on the US-India-Pakistan triangle, we explore how Pakistan won over the Kennedy White House while India struggled to keep up. From Nehru’s waning influence and Ayub Khan’s charm offensive to Kennedy’s diplomatic missteps and the Indo-China war, we unpack a volatile decade that shaped the region’s geopolitics. We also examine LBJ’s humiliating ‘ship-to-mouth’ food policy towards India, Indira Gandhi’s criticism of the US over Vietnam, and India’s growing resolve to go nuclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:40:00 -0000 full The Quint In Part 2 of our Cold War mini-series on the US-India-Pakistan triangle, we explore how Pakistan won over the Kennedy White House while India struggled to keep up. From Nehru’s waning influence and Ayub Khan’s charm offensive to Kennedy’s diplomatic missteps and the Indo-China war, we unpack a volatile decade that shaped the region’s geopolitics. We also examine LBJ’s humiliating ‘ship-to-mouth’ food policy towards India, Indira Gandhi’s criticism of the US over Vietnam, and India’s growing resolve to go nuclear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In Part 2 of our Cold War mini-series on the US-India-Pakistan triangle, we explore how Pakistan won over the Kennedy White House while India struggled to keep up. From Nehru’s waning influence and Ayub Khan’s charm offensive to Kennedy’s diplomatic missteps and the Indo-China war, we unpack a volatile decade that shaped the region’s geopolitics. We also examine LBJ’s humiliating ‘ship-to-mouth’ food policy towards India, Indira Gandhi’s criticism of the US over Vietnam, and India’s growing resolve to go nuclear.

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]]> 708 no US, India & Pakistan: Power Games in the Truman–Eisenhower Era | Part 1 | The Quint America’s foreign policy towards India and Pakistan has shifted since the 1940s, often influenced by global politics and the personalities of US presidents. Early years saw the US favouring Pakistan due to India’s nonalignment and socialist leanings. Raghav Bahl asks: Could America’s changing stance reshape South Asia’s power balance? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:47:00 -0000 full The Quint America’s foreign policy towards India and Pakistan has shifted since the 1940s, often influenced by global politics and the personalities of US presidents. Early years saw the US favouring Pakistan due to India’s nonalignment and socialist leanings. Raghav Bahl asks: Could America’s changing stance reshape South Asia’s power balance? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices America’s foreign policy towards India and Pakistan has shifted since the 1940s, often influenced by global politics and the personalities of US presidents. Early years saw the US favouring Pakistan due to India’s nonalignment and socialist leanings. Raghav Bahl asks: Could America’s changing stance reshape South Asia’s power balance?

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]]> 693 no Three Tragedies, One Question: What Do Pahalgam, RCB Stampede & Air India Crash Say About Life? In this thought‑provoking video by Raghav Bahl, we explore three devastating incidents — the Pahalgam terror attack, the RCB fan‑stampede, and the Air India crash — to understand what they reveal about life, death, and human resilience. Watch as we question our mortality, confront grief, and affirm the meaning behind loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:10:00 -0000 full The Quint In this thought‑provoking video by Raghav Bahl, we explore three devastating incidents — the Pahalgam terror attack, the RCB fan‑stampede, and the Air India crash — to understand what they reveal about life, death, and human resilience. Watch as we question our mortality, confront grief, and affirm the meaning behind loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this thought‑provoking video by Raghav Bahl, we explore three devastating incidents — the Pahalgam terror attack, the RCB fan‑stampede, and the Air India crash — to understand what they reveal about life, death, and human resilience. Watch as we question our mortality, confront grief, and affirm the meaning behind loss.

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]]> 667 no India's Dollar Bond Revival: Trump's Mar-a-Lago Accord Explained | The Quint In this episode of Raghav's Take we discuss how President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Accord could pave the way for India to reintroduce its sovereign dollar bonds. We explore the historical context, the challenges faced during the 2019 attempt, and the potential benefits of this strategic move for India's economy. Watch as we analyze the implications of this development and what it means for India's financial future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:22:00 -0000 full The Quint In this episode of Raghav's Take we discuss how President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Accord could pave the way for India to reintroduce its sovereign dollar bonds. We explore the historical context, the challenges faced during the 2019 attempt, and the potential benefits of this strategic move for India's economy. Watch as we analyze the implications of this development and what it means for India's financial future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this episode of Raghav's Take we discuss how President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Accord could pave the way for India to reintroduce its sovereign dollar bonds. We explore the historical context, the challenges faced during the 2019 attempt, and the potential benefits of this strategic move for India's economy. Watch as we analyze the implications of this development and what it means for India's financial future.

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]]> 805 no 'My Personal American Diary Through 60 Years of India-Pakistan Wars': Raghav's Take | The Quint This video traces India-Pakistan conflicts from 1965 to 2025 through personal memories and shifting US policies. From American support for Pakistan in 1971 to a hands-off approach in 2025, the narrative shows changing global dynamics. Raghav Bahl asks, 'What really drives America’s unpredictable stance on South Asia?' From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:46:00 -0000 full The Quint This video traces India-Pakistan conflicts from 1965 to 2025 through personal memories and shifting US policies. From American support for Pakistan in 1971 to a hands-off approach in 2025, the narrative shows changing global dynamics. Raghav Bahl asks, 'What really drives America’s unpredictable stance on South Asia?' From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This video traces India-Pakistan conflicts from 1965 to 2025 through personal memories and shifting US policies. From American support for Pakistan in 1971 to a hands-off approach in 2025, the narrative shows changing global dynamics. Raghav Bahl asks, 'What really drives America’s unpredictable stance on South Asia?' From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

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]]> 696 no The Rise of the Digital Euro: Trump's Role Explained | The Quint In this episode of Raghav's Take, we break down how Trump's Executive Order 14178 which was meant to roll back the U.S. digital dollar—may have handed a golden opportunity to Europe. With the European Central Bank pushing ahead with the Digital Euro, is the U.S. at risk of losing its long-held "exorbitant privilege" of dollar dominance? Watch as Raghav Bahl unpacks the geopolitical and economic implications of Trump's move, the future of global currencies, and why this shift could change the balance of power in global finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 29 May 2025 14:52:00 -0000 full The Quint In this episode of Raghav's Take, we break down how Trump's Executive Order 14178 which was meant to roll back the U.S. digital dollar—may have handed a golden opportunity to Europe. With the European Central Bank pushing ahead with the Digital Euro, is the U.S. at risk of losing its long-held "exorbitant privilege" of dollar dominance? Watch as Raghav Bahl unpacks the geopolitical and economic implications of Trump's move, the future of global currencies, and why this shift could change the balance of power in global finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this episode of Raghav's Take, we break down how Trump's Executive Order 14178 which was meant to roll back the U.S. digital dollar—may have handed a golden opportunity to Europe. With the European Central Bank pushing ahead with the Digital Euro, is the U.S. at risk of losing its long-held "exorbitant privilege" of dollar dominance? Watch as Raghav Bahl unpacks the geopolitical and economic implications of Trump's move, the future of global currencies, and why this shift could change the balance of power in global finance.

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]]> 712 no Trump's Digital Dollar Ban: A Strategic Misstep? | EO 14178 Explained | The Quint In this video, we delve into President Trump's Executive Order 14178, which halts the development of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). We explore the implications of this decision on America's financial future, the rise of private Stablecoins, and how this move might cede ground to digital currencies like the Digital Yuan and Euro. Is this a safeguarding of privacy or a strategic blunder? Raghav Bahl unpacks the nuances of this critical policy shift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 22 May 2025 08:00:00 -0000 full The Quint In this video, we delve into President Trump's Executive Order 14178, which halts the development of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). We explore the implications of this decision on America's financial future, the rise of private Stablecoins, and how this move might cede ground to digital currencies like the Digital Yuan and Euro. Is this a safeguarding of privacy or a strategic blunder? Raghav Bahl unpacks the nuances of this critical policy shift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In this video, we delve into President Trump's Executive Order 14178, which halts the development of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). We explore the implications of this decision on America's financial future, the rise of private Stablecoins, and how this move might cede ground to digital currencies like the Digital Yuan and Euro. Is this a safeguarding of privacy or a strategic blunder? Raghav Bahl unpacks the nuances of this critical policy shift.

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]]> 514 no War Scare, Market Flare: What Pahalgam Taught Investors Before Peace Returned | The Quint After a brief but intense escalation near Pahalgam, India and Pakistan have pulled back with a ceasefire now in effect. But the Indian stock markets remain volatile. In this video, Raghav Bahl analyses how markets often respond after military conflict subsides. Drawing parallels from the Kargil War and WWII, could the return to calm trigger a delayed 'war boom' rally? Or are we heading for a new correction? 📖 Read more: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/indian-stock-markets-will-pahalgam-war-trigger-the-rally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 16 May 2025 07:01:00 -0000 full The Quint After a brief but intense escalation near Pahalgam, India and Pakistan have pulled back with a ceasefire now in effect. But the Indian stock markets remain volatile. In this video, Raghav Bahl analyses how markets often respond after military conflict subsides. Drawing parallels from the Kargil War and WWII, could the return to calm trigger a delayed 'war boom' rally? Or are we heading for a new correction? 📖 Read more: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/indian-stock-markets-will-pahalgam-war-trigger-the-rally Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices After a brief but intense escalation near Pahalgam, India and Pakistan have pulled back with a ceasefire now in effect. But the Indian stock markets remain volatile. In this video, Raghav Bahl analyses how markets often respond after military conflict subsides. Drawing parallels from the Kargil War and WWII, could the return to calm trigger a delayed 'war boom' rally? Or are we heading for a new correction? 📖 Read more: https://www.thequint.com/opinion/indian-stock-markets-will-pahalgam-war-trigger-the-rally

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]]> 730 Donald Trump and the 'Exorbitant' Fairy Tale of the American Dollar | The Quint The American dollar is at a fatal crossroad. Will it die or will it have an angelic revival? Raghav Bahl answers. For decades, the US dollar ruled global trade like an untouchable monarch—everyone needed it, but only America could print it. But has this so-called privilege become America’s biggest liability? From Alan Greenspan to Donald Trump, from globalisation highs to inflation woes. In this video, Raghav Bahl decodes how the mighty dollar shaped the world economy, and what Trump’s tariffs might mean for its future. From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 05 May 2025 09:50:00 -0000 full The Quint The American dollar is at a fatal crossroad. Will it die or will it have an angelic revival? Raghav Bahl answers. For decades, the US dollar ruled global trade like an untouchable monarch—everyone needed it, but only America could print it. But has this so-called privilege become America’s biggest liability? From Alan Greenspan to Donald Trump, from globalisation highs to inflation woes. In this video, Raghav Bahl decodes how the mighty dollar shaped the world economy, and what Trump’s tariffs might mean for its future. From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The American dollar is at a fatal crossroad. Will it die or will it have an angelic revival? Raghav Bahl answers. For decades, the US dollar ruled global trade like an untouchable monarch—everyone needed it, but only America could print it. But has this so-called privilege become America’s biggest liability? From Alan Greenspan to Donald Trump, from globalisation highs to inflation woes. In this video, Raghav Bahl decodes how the mighty dollar shaped the world economy, and what Trump’s tariffs might mean for its future. From exposing misinformation to delivering impactful human rights reporting, our newsroom has relentlessly pursued stories that drive change. We remain committed to asking the tough questions — and we'd love for you to be a part of our journey.

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]]> 636 America Can Copy China’s Policies, But Americans Can Never Clone Chinese Workers Raghav's Take: Donald Trump loves to talk about taking a tough stance on China. From tariffs to trade wars, the US has tried to mirror Beijing’s economic playbook. But here’s the catch: America might copy China’s policies, but it can’t copy its people. Why? Because China’s system relies on a massive, low-paid, and compliant workforce that the US simply doesn’t have. In this video, we break down why Trump (or any American leader) can’t win by playing China’s game, no matter how hard they try. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:23:00 -0000 full The Quint Raghav's Take: Donald Trump loves to talk about taking a tough stance on China. From tariffs to trade wars, the US has tried to mirror Beijing’s economic playbook. But here’s the catch: America might copy China’s policies, but it can’t copy its people. Why? Because China’s system relies on a massive, low-paid, and compliant workforce that the US simply doesn’t have. In this video, we break down why Trump (or any American leader) can’t win by playing China’s game, no matter how hard they try. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Raghav's Take: Donald Trump loves to talk about taking a tough stance on China. From tariffs to trade wars, the US has tried to mirror Beijing’s economic playbook. But here’s the catch: America might copy China’s policies, but it can’t copy its people. Why? Because China’s system relies on a massive, low-paid, and compliant workforce that the US simply doesn’t have.

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]]> 760 Just Like Nixon, Trump is Making China Great Again! | The Quint In the 1970s, Richard Nixon paved the way for China’s economic rise by making a strategic alliance with the country. Fast forward to 2025, and now Donald Trump is unknowingly helping China reclaim its global dominance once more. In this episode of Raghav's take, we explore how Trump’s isolationist policies, high tariffs, and withdrawal from global alliances are inadvertently enabling China to fill the geopolitical vacuum left by the U.S. under his leadership. Watch as we dive deep into China’s extraordinary rise — from a strategic partnership with the U.S. to now becoming America's chief competitor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:52:00 -0000 full The Quint In the 1970s, Richard Nixon paved the way for China’s economic rise by making a strategic alliance with the country. Fast forward to 2025, and now Donald Trump is unknowingly helping China reclaim its global dominance once more. In this episode of Raghav's take, we explore how Trump’s isolationist policies, high tariffs, and withdrawal from global alliances are inadvertently enabling China to fill the geopolitical vacuum left by the U.S. under his leadership. Watch as we dive deep into China’s extraordinary rise — from a strategic partnership with the U.S. to now becoming America's chief competitor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In the 1970s, Richard Nixon paved the way for China’s economic rise by making a strategic alliance with the country. Fast forward to 2025, and now Donald Trump is unknowingly helping China reclaim its global dominance once more.

In this episode of Raghav's take, we explore how Trump’s isolationist policies, high tariffs, and withdrawal from global alliances are inadvertently enabling China to fill the geopolitical vacuum left by the U.S. under his leadership. Watch as we dive deep into China’s extraordinary rise — from a strategic partnership with the U.S. to now becoming America's chief competitor.

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]]> 961 no Will India Do Better Or Worse Under ‘Centrists’ Biden & Harris? https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/will-india-do-better-or-worse-under-centrists-bide The Democratic National Convention (DNC) nominated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the November elections in a uniquely spectacular manner. The fact that it was a COVID-induced ‘virtual event’ was perhaps the least of it. But the parade of Republican heavyweights at a Democratic convention was unprecedented, from Colin Powell, John Kasich to Cindy McCain. I shudder to think what legal convolutions would have gotten triggered if India’s moth-ridden anti-defection law was applied to these worthies! Tune in to the podcast! Music: Big Bang Fuzz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:57:27 -0000 Will India Do Better Or Worse Under ‘Centrists’ Biden & Harris? full 285 The Quint The Democratic National Convention (DNC) nominated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the November elections in a uniquely spectacular manner. The fact that it was a COVID-induced ‘virtual event’ was perhaps the least of it. But the parade of Republican heavyweights at a Democratic convention was unprecedented, from Colin Powell, John Kasich to Cindy McCain. I shudder to think what legal convolutions would have gotten triggered if India’s moth-ridden anti-defection law was applied to these worthies! Tune in to the podcast! Music: Big Bang Fuzz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
But the parade of Republican heavyweights at a Democratic convention was unprecedented, from Colin Powell, John Kasich to Cindy McCain. I shudder to think what legal convolutions would have gotten triggered if India’s moth-ridden anti-defection law was applied to these worthies!

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]]> 546 Budget 2020: Despite ‘Fixing’, ESOP Remains A Much-Abused Acronym https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/budget-2020-despite-fixing-esop-remains-a-much-abu India taxes ESOPs, ie employees stock options, harshly, very harshly. Let me give you a quick history lesson. When I founded TV18 in the early 90s, we had given generous stock options to our critical team members. In that sense, we belonged to a clutch of ESOP pioneers in India. And since we were leaders in business news, we also drilled hard into issues around entrepreneurship, taxation and union budgets. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:51:39 -0000 Budget 2020: Despite ‘Fixing’, ESOP Remains A Much-Abused Acronym full 284 The Quint India taxes ESOPs, ie employees stock options, harshly, very harshly. Let me give you a quick history lesson. When I founded TV18 in the early 90s, we had given generous stock options to our critical team members. In that sense, we belonged to a clutch of ESOP pioneers in India. And since we were leaders in business news, we also drilled hard into issues around entrepreneurship, taxation and union budgets. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices When I founded TV18 in the early 90s, we had given generous stock options to our critical team members. In that sense, we belonged to a clutch of ESOP pioneers in India. And since we were leaders in business news, we also drilled hard into issues around entrepreneurship, taxation and union budgets.

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]]> 484 Budget 2020: Don’t Give Tax & Fiscal Cuts — Just Give Us ‘TRUST’ https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/budget-2020-don-t-give-tax-fiscal-cuts-just-give-u It’s a familiar cacophony. Cut taxes. Invert the inverted duty structure. Control the fiscal deficit. Be honest about your arithmetic. Abolish equity taxes. Step up government expenditure, the fisc be damned. Bring back investment allowance. Slap inheritance taxes... And on it goes, a laundry list of standard policy tactics which could revive India’s economy. Frankly, the time for budget quick-fixes is over. If PM Modi genuinely wants to rejuvenate, he’s got to create ‘TRUST’ for India’s private enterprise which accounts for 90% of the economy. India’s bureaucracy has always been deeply suspicious of well-regulated markets. Which is why they love to micro-manage outcomes. But this time, their quest has become maniacal. If you create truly competitive markets, ‘super profits’ will vanish on their own — when will our policy-makers understand that? We should have learned from Ben Bernanke, who authored TARP (Troubled Assets Reconstruction Program) and saved America’s economy in 2008. The ‘criminalisation’ of business has now become quite outrageous. Therefore, it has also had the most harmful impact on India’s economy. Host: Raghav Bahl Editor: Mohammad Ibrahim Producer: Sonal Gupta Read the story on The Quint  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 29 Jan 2020 10:20:57 -0000 Budget 2020: Don’t Give Tax & Fiscal Cuts — Just Give Us ‘TRUST’ full 283 The Quint It’s a familiar cacophony. Cut taxes. Invert the inverted duty structure. Control the fiscal deficit. Be honest about your arithmetic. Abolish equity taxes. Step up government expenditure, the fisc be damned. Bring back investment allowance. Slap inheritance taxes... And on it goes, a laundry list of standard policy tactics which could revive India’s economy. Frankly, the time for budget quick-fixes is over. If PM Modi genuinely wants to rejuvenate, he’s got to create ‘TRUST’ for India’s private enterprise which accounts for 90% of the economy. India’s bureaucracy has always been deeply suspicious of well-regulated markets. Which is why they love to micro-manage outcomes. But this time, their quest has become maniacal. If you create truly competitive markets, ‘super profits’ will vanish on their own — when will our policy-makers understand that? We should have learned from Ben Bernanke, who authored TARP (Troubled Assets Reconstruction Program) and saved America’s economy in 2008. The ‘criminalisation’ of business has now become quite outrageous. Therefore, it has also had the most harmful impact on India’s economy. Host: Raghav Bahl Editor: Mohammad Ibrahim Producer: Sonal Gupta Read the story on The Quint  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Frankly, the time for budget quick-fixes is over. If PM Modi genuinely wants to rejuvenate, he’s got to create ‘TRUST’ for India’s private enterprise which accounts for 90% of the economy.

India’s bureaucracy has always been deeply suspicious of well-regulated markets. Which is why they love to micro-manage outcomes. But this time, their quest has become maniacal. If you create truly competitive markets, ‘super profits’ will vanish on their own — when will our policy-makers understand that?

We should have learned from Ben Bernanke, who authored TARP (Troubled Assets Reconstruction Program) and saved America’s economy in 2008.

The ‘criminalisation’ of business has now become quite outrageous.
Therefore, it has also had the most harmful impact on India’s economy.

Host: Raghav Bahl
Editor: Mohammad Ibrahim
Producer: Sonal Gupta

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]]> 698 Terrific Reforms, But Beware of ‘BABU-JAAL’ — Bureaucratic Cobwebs https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/terrific-reforms-but-beware-of-babu-jaal-bureaucra For over five years, I’ve criticised ‘state creep’ on Prime Minister Modi’s watch. This tendency hit a crescendo on 5 July 2019, when the second Modi regime’s first budget was read out in parliament. While that document was riddled with state over-reach, I will remind you only of the most egregious measure: a voluntary contribution under CSR (corporate social responsibility) was converted into a criminal liability! Mercifully, it was quickly aborted, but not before it had betrayed the underlying instinct. Inevitably, the sentiment, markets and financial indicators tanked after the Fifth July Budget. A concerned Modi tried to ‘talk up’ the economy by feting ‘wealth creators’ in his Independence Day speech, but it fell on deaf years. The markets continued to plummet. Tune in to this podcast for the full story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:12:53 -0000 Terrific Reforms, But Beware of ‘BABU-JAAL’ — Bureaucratic Cobwebs full 282 The Quint For over five years, I’ve criticised ‘state creep’ on Prime Minister Modi’s watch. This tendency hit a crescendo on 5 July 2019, when the second Modi regime’s first budget was read out in parliament. While that document was riddled with state over-reach, I will remind you only of the most egregious measure: a voluntary contribution under CSR (corporate social responsibility) was converted into a criminal liability! Mercifully, it was quickly aborted, but not before it had betrayed the underlying instinct. Inevitably, the sentiment, markets and financial indicators tanked after the Fifth July Budget. A concerned Modi tried to ‘talk up’ the economy by feting ‘wealth creators’ in his Independence Day speech, but it fell on deaf years. The markets continued to plummet. Tune in to this podcast for the full story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices criminal liability! Mercifully, it was quickly aborted, but not before it had betrayed the underlying instinct.
Inevitably, the sentiment, markets and financial indicators tanked after the Fifth July Budget. A concerned Modi tried to ‘talk up’ the economy by feting ‘wealth creators’ in his Independence Day speech, but it fell on deaf years. The markets continued to plummet.
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]]> 463 Let’s Not Waste a Good Maharashtra Political Crisis https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/let-s-not-waste-a-good-maharashtra-political-crisi The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress coalition in Maharashtra is perhaps the second most ‘unthinkable’ political alliance in India, next only to the most incompatible BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu & Kashmir, that ended with devastating consequences. So, what are the lessons from this most unusual, 80-hour-long Maharashtra political fiasco? Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 29 Nov 2019 09:39:43 -0000 Let’s Not Waste a Good Maharashtra Political Crisis full 281 The Quint The Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress coalition in Maharashtra is perhaps the second most ‘unthinkable’ political alliance in India, next only to the most incompatible BJP-PDP coalition in Jammu & Kashmir, that ended with devastating consequences. So, what are the lessons from this most unusual, 80-hour-long Maharashtra political fiasco? Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So, what are the lessons from this most unusual, 80-hour-long Maharashtra political fiasco?

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]]> 510 Dear PM Modi: Crack This Quiz & Fix the Economy https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/dear-pm-modi-crack-this-quiz-fix-the-economy India’s economy today can be described by a four-letter word. Oh c’mon, it’s not what you are thinking… Even the sarkari (government-owned) State Bank of India says that GDP growth could fall to around four percent when the July-September number is revealed, that’s what! And as usually happens in an acute crisis, everybody and her aunt is offering solutions. Fix this, increase that, cut here… If anything, Prime Minister Modi is getting buried under a million “miracle ideas”. But sadly, too many good fixes also become a bad thing, because only a bit of this and a bit of that gets done, and the problem never goes away. So let’s answer a small quiz. I will throw ten options at you. All of these are critical actions required to pull India’s economy out of its current funk. At the end, I will ask you one final question. Check if you’ve really got it figured out in your head. Listen to the podcast for the rest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 19 Nov 2019 05:14:19 -0000 Dear PM Modi: Crack This Quiz & Fix the Economy full 280 The Quint India’s economy today can be described by a four-letter word. Oh c’mon, it’s not what you are thinking… Even the sarkari (government-owned) State Bank of India says that GDP growth could fall to around four percent when the July-September number is revealed, that’s what! And as usually happens in an acute crisis, everybody and her aunt is offering solutions. Fix this, increase that, cut here… If anything, Prime Minister Modi is getting buried under a million “miracle ideas”. But sadly, too many good fixes also become a bad thing, because only a bit of this and a bit of that gets done, and the problem never goes away. So let’s answer a small quiz. I will throw ten options at you. All of these are critical actions required to pull India’s economy out of its current funk. At the end, I will ask you one final question. Check if you’ve really got it figured out in your head. Listen to the podcast for the rest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices sarkari (government-owned) State Bank of India says that GDP growth could fall to around four percent when the July-September number is revealed, that’s what!

And as usually happens in an acute crisis, everybody and her aunt is offering solutions. Fix this, increase that, cut here… If anything, Prime Minister Modi is getting buried under a million “miracle ideas”. But sadly, too many good fixes also become a bad thing, because only a bit of this and a bit of that gets done, and the problem never goes away.

So let’s answer a small quiz. I will throw ten options at you. All of these are critical actions required to pull India’s economy out of its current funk. At the end, I will ask you one final question. Check if you’ve really got it figured out in your head.

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]]> 486 Soaring Markets & Slowdown Caused by Lingering Confusion in Policy https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/soaring-markets-slowdown-caused-by-lingering-confu Coal output crashes by over 20 percent. Overall, eight core sectors lose a stunning 5.2 percent year-on-year over September 2018, contracting to an 8-year low. GDP hits a 6-year low. And yet, India’s stock markets hit an all-time high! Why, you ask? To understand this conundrum, let’s dial back a few months, to May 2019. Everybody thought that a struggling economy would dent Prime Minister Modi’s 2014 mandate. But he shocked the whole world by improving upon his tally, crossing a breath-taking 300 seats in Lok Sabha. The markets broke into a euphoric dance of crazy expectations. Surely, he would use his vastly enhanced political capital to finally essay deep, difficult reforms to unshackle the economy, once and for all, right? Full the full story tune in to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:39:42 -0000 Soaring Markets & Slowdown Caused by Lingering Confusion in Policy full 279 The Quint Coal output crashes by over 20 percent. Overall, eight core sectors lose a stunning 5.2 percent year-on-year over September 2018, contracting to an 8-year low. GDP hits a 6-year low. And yet, India’s stock markets hit an all-time high! Why, you ask? To understand this conundrum, let’s dial back a few months, to May 2019. Everybody thought that a struggling economy would dent Prime Minister Modi’s 2014 mandate. But he shocked the whole world by improving upon his tally, crossing a breath-taking 300 seats in Lok Sabha. The markets broke into a euphoric dance of crazy expectations. Surely, he would use his vastly enhanced political capital to finally essay deep, difficult reforms to unshackle the economy, once and for all, right? Full the full story tune in to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why, you ask?

To understand this conundrum, let’s dial back a few months, to May 2019. Everybody thought that a struggling economy would dent Prime Minister Modi’s 2014 mandate. But he shocked the whole world by improving upon his tally, crossing a breath-taking 300 seats in Lok Sabha. The markets broke into a euphoric dance of crazy expectations. Surely, he would use his vastly enhanced political capital to finally essay deep, difficult reforms to unshackle the economy, once and for all, right?
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]]> 466 Why I Call Maha, Haryana Polls ‘Juggernaut-Stoppers’: 6 Takeaways https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/why-i-call-maha-haryana-polls-juggernaut-stoppers I know that adjectives like “milestone”, “game changer” and “watershed” are frequently used after polls that throw up contrarian, unexpected results. But even adjusting for this caveat, I would call the October 2019 mini national elections a “juggernaut stopper”. Tune in to this podcast for my six takeaways from the recent state elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:56:02 -0000 Why I Call Maha, Haryana Polls ‘Juggernaut-Stoppers’: 6 Takeaways full 278 The Quint I know that adjectives like “milestone”, “game changer” and “watershed” are frequently used after polls that throw up contrarian, unexpected results. But even adjusting for this caveat, I would call the October 2019 mini national elections a “juggernaut stopper”. Tune in to this podcast for my six takeaways from the recent state elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 517 PMC Scam: Shameful to Promise Just Rs 1 Lakh Insurance to Victims https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/pmc-scam-shameful-to-promise-just-rs-1-lakh-insura The PMC Bank scam was more audacious than any Bonnie and Clyde heist. A high-living father-son duo, Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan, had 44 bank accounts in a loosely regulated outfit in Mumbai called Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank.  They used these accounts to suck out nearly Rs 6500 crore, a mind-boggling 73% of the total loan book of the ill-fated bank. This robbery took place right under the noses of RBI and the auditors. How? The 44 Wadhawan accounts were “masked” by 21,000 – yes, get this, twenty-one thousand – fictitious accounts, many in the names of dead depositors. Allegedly, the bank allowed overdraft draw downs, with the cash travelling via hawala (laundering) channels to Dubai.  The tainted money was “washed back” clean into PMC accounts as deposits. While loans were given to the Wadhawans in the hidden-but-real ledgers, the fake loan accounts of 21,000 depositors were sent in the Advanced Master Indent to RBI. That’s “masking”, got it? Now listen to the podcast for the rest of the story! Host: Raghav Bahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 27 Oct 2019 07:32:42 -0000 PMC Scam: Shameful to Promise Just Rs 1 Lakh Insurance to Victims full 277 The Quint The PMC Bank scam was more audacious than any Bonnie and Clyde heist. A high-living father-son duo, Rakesh and Sarang Wadhawan, had 44 bank accounts in a loosely regulated outfit in Mumbai called Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank.  They used these accounts to suck out nearly Rs 6500 crore, a mind-boggling 73% of the total loan book of the ill-fated bank. This robbery took place right under the noses of RBI and the auditors. How? The 44 Wadhawan accounts were “masked” by 21,000 – yes, get this, twenty-one thousand – fictitious accounts, many in the names of dead depositors. Allegedly, the bank allowed overdraft draw downs, with the cash travelling via hawala (laundering) channels to Dubai.  The tainted money was “washed back” clean into PMC accounts as deposits. While loans were given to the Wadhawans in the hidden-but-real ledgers, the fake loan accounts of 21,000 depositors were sent in the Advanced Master Indent to RBI. That’s “masking”, got it? Now listen to the podcast for the rest of the story! Host: Raghav Bahl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
They used these accounts to suck out nearly Rs 6500 crore, a mind-boggling 73% of the total loan book of the ill-fated bank.

This robbery took place right under the noses of RBI and the auditors. How?

The 44 Wadhawan accounts were “masked” by 21,000 – yes, get this, twenty-one thousand – fictitious accounts, many in the names of dead depositors. Allegedly, the bank allowed overdraft draw downs, with the cash travelling via hawala (laundering) channels to Dubai. 

The tainted money was “washed back” clean into PMC accounts as deposits.

While loans were given to the Wadhawans in the hidden-but-real ledgers, the fake loan accounts of 21,000 depositors were sent in the Advanced Master Indent to RBI. That’s “masking”, got it?

Now listen to the podcast for the rest of the story!

Host: Raghav Bahl

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]]> 449 Dear FM, Here Are 3 Tax Cuts the Common People Would Welcome More https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/dear-fm-here-are-3-tax-cuts-the-common-people-woul Finally. Finally! The Modi government has acknowledged the futility of trying to pump prime India’s GDP by ever-escalating government expenditure, which increased by an astonishing double-digit CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) over six years of impotent growth. Remember, Indian governments drive only 10 percent of our economy – worse, they do so inefficiently and bluntly. Finally, the Modi government has acknowledged that the budget presented on 5 July 2019 was a failed, vapid policy document. Finally, it has realised that India’s private enterprise is the most potent engine of economic growth, accounting for over 90 percent of GDP. And finally, after six excruciating years, it has shed its “I am the government and I can fix everything” stance and adopted the mantra of “I will free your animal spirits by empowering, trusting and enriching you.” Finally! The fiscal giveaway is an awe-inspiring 0.6 percent+ of GDP. Absolutely, it’s a generous Rs 1.45 lakh crore of additional cash created on corporate balance sheets. Optically, it’s a humongous 10 percentage points’ hack of the corporate tax rate by one swing of the axe (reminiscent of P Chidambaram’s audacious move in the “dream budget” of 1997/98 – ouch!). Yes, I am delighted. But no, I am not ecstatic. Why? Listen to the podcast for the reasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 22 Sep 2019 11:22:30 -0000 Dear FM, Here Are 3 Tax Cuts the Common People Would Welcome More full 276 The Quint Finally. Finally! The Modi government has acknowledged the futility of trying to pump prime India’s GDP by ever-escalating government expenditure, which increased by an astonishing double-digit CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) over six years of impotent growth. Remember, Indian governments drive only 10 percent of our economy – worse, they do so inefficiently and bluntly. Finally, the Modi government has acknowledged that the budget presented on 5 July 2019 was a failed, vapid policy document. Finally, it has realised that India’s private enterprise is the most potent engine of economic growth, accounting for over 90 percent of GDP. And finally, after six excruciating years, it has shed its “I am the government and I can fix everything” stance and adopted the mantra of “I will free your animal spirits by empowering, trusting and enriching you.” Finally! The fiscal giveaway is an awe-inspiring 0.6 percent+ of GDP. Absolutely, it’s a generous Rs 1.45 lakh crore of additional cash created on corporate balance sheets. Optically, it’s a humongous 10 percentage points’ hack of the corporate tax rate by one swing of the axe (reminiscent of P Chidambaram’s audacious move in the “dream budget” of 1997/98 – ouch!). Yes, I am delighted. But no, I am not ecstatic. Why? Listen to the podcast for the reasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Finally! The Modi government has acknowledged the futility of trying to pump prime India’s GDP by ever-escalating government expenditure, which increased by an astonishing double-digit CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) over six years of impotent growth. Remember, Indian governments drive only 10 percent of our economy – worse, they do so inefficiently and bluntly.

Finally, the Modi government has acknowledged that the budget presented on 5 July 2019 was a failed, vapid policy document.

Finally, it has realised that India’s private enterprise is the most potent engine of economic growth, accounting for over 90 percent of GDP.

And finally, after six excruciating years, it has shed its “I am the government and I can fix everything” stance and adopted the mantra of “I will free your animal spirits by empowering, trusting and enriching you.”

Finally!

The fiscal giveaway is an awe-inspiring 0.6 percent+ of GDP. Absolutely, it’s a generous Rs 1.45 lakh crore of additional cash created on corporate balance sheets. Optically, it’s a humongous 10 percentage points’ hack of the corporate tax rate by one swing of the axe (reminiscent of P Chidambaram’s audacious move in the “dream budget” of 1997/98 – ouch!).

Yes, I am delighted. But no, I am not ecstatic. Why? Listen to the podcast for the reasons.

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]]> 433 India’s Best Post-Brexit Bet is the “Zombie” Commonwealth! https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/india-s-best-post-brexit-bet-is-the-zombie-commonw As tensions mount in sadda, aapro, aamchi (ie, “our” in what the Brits would have once called “three dialects of the natives”) London, how should India respond to this flurry of will-or-won’t-Britain-do-a-Brexit? As a nation, our feelings toward our former colonisers are complicated at best. For better and worse, the British profoundly shaped modern India, breeding insecurity and sectarianism while imparting some of their most enlightened institutions: Parliamentary democracy, an independent judiciary, rule of law, the English language (and accent), the university system, a robust free press, the civil bureaucracy and military architecture. Because of the British, we play cricket, drink tea and drive on the left side of the road. Despite Delhi’s efforts to change colonial place names, we still visit McCluskiegunj in Jharkhand, for example, which was once home to a large Anglo-Indian community, and fly into Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun. We couldn’t erase the impact of British colonialism even if we wanted to! Listen to the podcast for the rest of the story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 12 Sep 2019 06:06:04 -0000 India’s Best Post-Brexit Bet is the “Zombie” Commonwealth! full 275 The Quint As tensions mount in sadda, aapro, aamchi (ie, “our” in what the Brits would have once called “three dialects of the natives”) London, how should India respond to this flurry of will-or-won’t-Britain-do-a-Brexit? As a nation, our feelings toward our former colonisers are complicated at best. For better and worse, the British profoundly shaped modern India, breeding insecurity and sectarianism while imparting some of their most enlightened institutions: Parliamentary democracy, an independent judiciary, rule of law, the English language (and accent), the university system, a robust free press, the civil bureaucracy and military architecture. Because of the British, we play cricket, drink tea and drive on the left side of the road. Despite Delhi’s efforts to change colonial place names, we still visit McCluskiegunj in Jharkhand, for example, which was once home to a large Anglo-Indian community, and fly into Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun. We couldn’t erase the impact of British colonialism even if we wanted to! Listen to the podcast for the rest of the story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices sadda, aapro, aamchi (ie, “our” in what the Brits would have once called “three dialects of the natives”) London, how should India respond to this flurry of will-or-won’t-Britain-do-a-Brexit?

As a nation, our feelings toward our former colonisers are complicated at best. For better and worse, the British profoundly shaped modern India, breeding insecurity and sectarianism while imparting some of their most enlightened institutions: Parliamentary democracy, an independent judiciary, rule of law, the English language (and accent), the university system, a robust free press, the civil bureaucracy and military architecture. Because of the British, we play cricket, drink tea and drive on the left side of the road.

Despite Delhi’s efforts to change colonial place names, we still visit McCluskiegunj in Jharkhand, for example, which was once home to a large Anglo-Indian community, and fly into Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun. We couldn’t erase the impact of British colonialism even if we wanted to!

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]]> 407 RIP Dear Arun Jaitley Ji, My Tribute to an Exceptional Schoolmate https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/rip-dear-arun-jaitley-ji-my-tribute-to-an-exceptio Raghav Bahl pays tribute to former finance minister Arun Jaitley, recalling his meetings with his exceptional Xaverian schoolmate, who always greeted with a smile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 24 Aug 2019 08:55:51 -0000 RIP Dear Arun Jaitley Ji, My Tribute to an Exceptional Schoolmate full 274 The Quint Raghav Bahl pays tribute to former finance minister Arun Jaitley, recalling his meetings with his exceptional Xaverian schoolmate, who always greeted with a smile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 674 A Navratri (Nine-Point) Economic Re-Boot for a ‘Puritan’ Modi https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/a-navratri-nine-point-economic-re-boot-for-a-purit In Prime Minister Modi’s unexpected, stirring commendation of “wealth creators” – most tellingly, by using popular English terminology, instead of conjuring up a Hindi equivalent like poonji utpadak (as he is wont to do) – he was signaling a reach-out to new-gen entrepreneurs and elite business-people who have gotten estranged from him. And by obliquely acknowledging that his regime may have treated them with contempt/suspicion – mark his cutting words in Hindi, heen bhavna – he was being as contrite as Modi can ever be on a public platform. After finishing an energetic 94-minute speech from the Ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi is understood to have driven straight into a brainstorming session with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her band of policy-men on how to fix the economy. Read the rest of the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 24 Aug 2019 06:57:39 -0000 A Navratri (Nine-Point) Economic Re-Boot for a ‘Puritan’ Modi full 273 The Quint In Prime Minister Modi’s unexpected, stirring commendation of “wealth creators” – most tellingly, by using popular English terminology, instead of conjuring up a Hindi equivalent like poonji utpadak (as he is wont to do) – he was signaling a reach-out to new-gen entrepreneurs and elite business-people who have gotten estranged from him. And by obliquely acknowledging that his regime may have treated them with contempt/suspicion – mark his cutting words in Hindi, heen bhavna – he was being as contrite as Modi can ever be on a public platform. After finishing an energetic 94-minute speech from the Ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi is understood to have driven straight into a brainstorming session with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her band of policy-men on how to fix the economy. Read the rest of the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices poonji utpadak (as he is wont to do) – he was signaling a reach-out to new-gen entrepreneurs and elite business-people who have gotten estranged from him.

And by obliquely acknowledging that his regime may have treated them with contempt/suspicion – mark his cutting words in Hindi, heen bhavna – he was being as contrite as Modi can ever be on a public platform.

After finishing an energetic 94-minute speech from the Ramparts of the Red Fort, Modi is understood to have driven straight into a brainstorming session with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her band of policy-men on how to fix the economy.

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]]> 463 What I Wish PM Modi Had Said But Didn’t In Independence Day Speech https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/what-i-wish-pm-modi-had-said-but-didn-t-in-indepen Main jaanta hoon ki aaj desh ek aarthik mandhi main hai; lekin main 130 crore desh vaasiyon ko yeh vishwaas deta hoon ki hum jald hi isko aarthik josh main badal dengey! (I know that we are currently in the grip of an economic slowdown; but I want to assure my 130 cr fellow Indians that we shall soon convert this gloom into economic optimism!) I was yearning to hear these words from the Ramparts of the Red Fort. I wanted Prime Minister Modi to use his legendary oratory and hope-generating skills to assuage the economy. But alas, he did not even acknowledge that there is a severe slowdown of demand and investment. Instead his prescription was more of the same same, with an additional/unusual invocation to domestic tourists! After hearing today’s speech, I had almost resigned myself to an unchanged Modi-nomics 2.0 until my eyes fell on this quote (from The Economic Times, 12 August 2019). Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:42:47 -0000 What I Wish PM Modi Had Said But Didn’t In Independence Day Speech full 272 The Quint Main jaanta hoon ki aaj desh ek aarthik mandhi main hai; lekin main 130 crore desh vaasiyon ko yeh vishwaas deta hoon ki hum jald hi isko aarthik josh main badal dengey! (I know that we are currently in the grip of an economic slowdown; but I want to assure my 130 cr fellow Indians that we shall soon convert this gloom into economic optimism!) I was yearning to hear these words from the Ramparts of the Red Fort. I wanted Prime Minister Modi to use his legendary oratory and hope-generating skills to assuage the economy. But alas, he did not even acknowledge that there is a severe slowdown of demand and investment. Instead his prescription was more of the same same, with an additional/unusual invocation to domestic tourists! After hearing today’s speech, I had almost resigned myself to an unchanged Modi-nomics 2.0 until my eyes fell on this quote (from The Economic Times, 12 August 2019). Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Main jaanta hoon ki aaj desh ek aarthik mandhi main hai; lekin main 130 crore desh vaasiyon ko yeh vishwaas deta hoon ki hum jald hi isko aarthik josh main badal dengey! (I know that we are currently in the grip of an economic slowdown; but I want to assure my 130 cr fellow Indians that we shall soon convert this gloom into economic optimism!)
I was yearning to hear these words from the Ramparts of the Red Fort. I wanted Prime Minister Modi to use his legendary oratory and hope-generating skills to assuage the economy. But alas, he did not even acknowledge that there is a severe slowdown of demand and investment. Instead his prescription was more of the same same, with an additional/unusual invocation to domestic tourists! After hearing today’s speech, I had almost resigned myself to an unchanged Modi-nomics 2.0 until my eyes fell on this quote (from The Economic Times, 12 August 2019). Tune in!

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]]> 459 The Diary of An Unfortunate Indian Entrepreneur https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/the-diary-of-an-unfortunate-indian-entrepreneur As always, the strapping 40-year-old swept into his corner room in a Gift City high-rise with the practised, breezy “I love Monday morning” air from his early Manhattan days. He was a celebrated first-generation entrepreneur, but in India he never took his Silicon Valley title of Founder-CEO; instead, he was simply PuFf, a dandy acronym for Pradhan (Chief) Foreman of a billion-dollar unicorn. While in Ahmedabad, do as Gujaratis do! Both his executive assistants (EAs) walked in, one carrying a steaming cup of coffee, the other a box of chocolate cake. What happens next? Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:46:19 -0000 The Diary of An Unfortunate Indian Entrepreneur full 271 The Quint As always, the strapping 40-year-old swept into his corner room in a Gift City high-rise with the practised, breezy “I love Monday morning” air from his early Manhattan days. He was a celebrated first-generation entrepreneur, but in India he never took his Silicon Valley title of Founder-CEO; instead, he was simply PuFf, a dandy acronym for Pradhan (Chief) Foreman of a billion-dollar unicorn. While in Ahmedabad, do as Gujaratis do! Both his executive assistants (EAs) walked in, one carrying a steaming cup of coffee, the other a box of chocolate cake. What happens next? Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Pradhan (Chief) Foreman of a billion-dollar unicorn. While in Ahmedabad, do as Gujaratis do!

Both his executive assistants (EAs) walked in, one carrying a steaming cup of coffee, the other a box of chocolate cake.

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]]> 349 Measuring Modi-Shah’s Kashmir Gamble on Mandate, Method & Morality https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/measuring-modi-shah-s-kashmir-gamble-on-mandate-me 11:15 am, 5 August 2019. I stood stunned and immersed in a time-lapse video as Home Minister Amit Shah read out the Resolution abolishing Article 370 and the state of Jammu & Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. If you were a liberal, you castigated, by rote – “the Kashmir Valley will now become India’s Gaza”. If a conservative, you celebrated, almost crudely – “we will make the Kashmir Valley into another Switzerland”. But I stayed quiet – consumed by a deep, viscous silence – as I tried to understand this political whiplash. I did not want to give a quick, adolescent reaction. I wanted to assess the government’s invoking of Article 370 to kill Article 370 on the three touchstones of Mandate, Method and Morality. Listen to the podcast for the full story. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Sat, 10 Aug 2019 09:48:07 -0000 Measuring Modi-Shah’s Kashmir Gamble on Mandate, Method & Morality full 270 The Quint 11:15 am, 5 August 2019. I stood stunned and immersed in a time-lapse video as Home Minister Amit Shah read out the Resolution abolishing Article 370 and the state of Jammu & Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. If you were a liberal, you castigated, by rote – “the Kashmir Valley will now become India’s Gaza”. If a conservative, you celebrated, almost crudely – “we will make the Kashmir Valley into another Switzerland”. But I stayed quiet – consumed by a deep, viscous silence – as I tried to understand this political whiplash. I did not want to give a quick, adolescent reaction. I wanted to assess the government’s invoking of Article 370 to kill Article 370 on the three touchstones of Mandate, Method and Morality. Listen to the podcast for the full story. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
But I stayed quiet – consumed by a deep, viscous silence – as I tried to understand this political whiplash.

I did not want to give a quick, adolescent reaction. I wanted to assess the government’s invoking of Article 370 to kill Article 370 on the three touchstones of Mandate, Method and Morality.

Listen to the podcast for the full story.

Read the story here.

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]]> 323 India Should Muster the Nerve to Go Ahead & Launch Sovereign Bonds https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/india-should-muster-the-nerve-to-go-ahead-launch-s India’s forex reserves are nearly $430 bn and growing. If we can’t muster the stomach to raise $10 billion in the overseas market, let’s just quit. Raghav Bahl backs Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal on sovereign bonds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 02 Aug 2019 08:05:22 -0000 India Should Muster the Nerve to Go Ahead & Launch Sovereign Bonds full 269 The Quint India’s forex reserves are nearly $430 bn and growing. If we can’t muster the stomach to raise $10 billion in the overseas market, let’s just quit. Raghav Bahl backs Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal on sovereign bonds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Raghav Bahl backs Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s proposal on sovereign bonds. 

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]]> 387 Maulana Azad, the ‘Default’ Political Visionary of Elections 2019 https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/maulana-azad-the-default-political-visionary-of-el Maulana Abul Kalam Azad made a default entry in India’s savagely polarised polls of 2019. Because the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha made an awful faux pas at an election rally, where he included Jinnah, along with Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Indira and Rajiv, as “respected members of the Congress family who built our nation”.  This gave the BJP very potent grist for its “Congress is pro-Pakistan” propaganda – after all, if the founder of Pakistan was a cherished Congressman, then their allegation was irrefutable, right? Sinha had to beat a hasty retreat, saying it was a “slip of my tongue”. He had mistakenly said Jinnah, when he meant Maulana Azad. But it’s almost impossible to confuse Jinnah with Azad, for they were diametrically opposite politicians. Frankly, I’ve often wondered why Maulana Azad figures so little in contemporary political discourse, while his peers like Nehru, Patel and Bose dominate.  Listen to the podcast for the full story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 10 May 2019 13:16:56 -0000 Maulana Azad, the ‘Default’ Political Visionary of Elections 2019 full 268 The Quint Maulana Abul Kalam Azad made a default entry in India’s savagely polarised polls of 2019\. Because the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha made an awful faux pas at an election rally, where he included Jinnah, along with Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Indira and Raj... Maulana Abul Kalam Azad made a default entry in India’s savagely polarised polls of 2019. Because the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha made an awful faux pas at an election rally, where he included Jinnah, along with Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Indira and Rajiv, as “respected members of the Congress family who built our nation”.  This gave the BJP very potent grist for its “Congress is pro-Pakistan” propaganda – after all, if the founder of Pakistan was a cherished Congressman, then their allegation was irrefutable, right? Sinha had to beat a hasty retreat, saying it was a “slip of my tongue”. He had mistakenly said Jinnah, when he meant Maulana Azad. But it’s almost impossible to confuse Jinnah with Azad, for they were diametrically opposite politicians. Frankly, I’ve often wondered why Maulana Azad figures so little in contemporary political discourse, while his peers like Nehru, Patel and Bose dominate.  Listen to the podcast for the full story! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Maulana Abul Kalam Azad made a default entry in India’s savagely polarised polls of 2019. Because the irrepressible Shatrughan Sinha made an awful faux pas at an election rally, where he included Jinnah, along with Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Indira and Rajiv, as “respected members of the Congress family who built our nation”. 

This gave the BJP very potent grist for its “Congress is pro-Pakistan” propaganda – after all, if the founder of Pakistan was a cherished Congressman, then their allegation was irrefutable, right? Sinha had to beat a hasty retreat, saying it was a “slip of my tongue”. He had mistakenly said Jinnah, when he meant Maulana Azad.

But it’s almost impossible to confuse Jinnah with Azad, for they were diametrically opposite politicians. Frankly, I’ve often wondered why Maulana Azad figures so little in contemporary political discourse, while his peers like Nehru, Patel and Bose dominate. 

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]]> 326 Did Modi Use Akshay Kumar to Neutralise Political Frankenstein(s)? https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/did-modi-use-akshay-kumar-to-neutralise-political I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads over the “big why”, I think I’ve got it figured out. It was a clever (synonymously also desperate) ploy to wrest the initiative back from the hotheads in his party. But if the prime minister had read Mary Shelley’s 18th century masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (“I used to read so many books at the village library”, Modi told the star struck Twinkle-hubby), he need not have done this embarrassing cameo. As per Wikipedia, it’s “the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment”; but the monster murders Victor’s wife Elizabeth and brother William. Ever since then, “Frankenstein” has become a noun in English, describing a creature that turns violently upon its own creator. Now to the billion-vote question: when and how did Modi lose the narrative to his political Frankenstein(s)? Let’s begin at the beginning… Listen to the full podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 02 May 2019 07:12:59 -0000 Did Modi Use Akshay Kumar to Neutralise Political Frankenstein(s)? full 267 The Quint I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads ove... I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads over the “big why”, I think I’ve got it figured out. It was a clever (synonymously also desperate) ploy to wrest the initiative back from the hotheads in his party. But if the prime minister had read Mary Shelley’s 18th century masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (“I used to read so many books at the village library”, Modi told the star struck Twinkle-hubby), he need not have done this embarrassing cameo. As per Wikipedia, it’s “the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment”; but the monster murders Victor’s wife Elizabeth and brother William. Ever since then, “Frankenstein” has become a noun in English, describing a creature that turns violently upon its own creator. Now to the billion-vote question: when and how did Modi lose the narrative to his political Frankenstein(s)? Let’s begin at the beginning… Listen to the full podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads over the “big why”, I think I’ve got it figured out. It was a clever (synonymously also desperate) ploy to wrest the initiative back from the hotheads in his party.

But if the prime minister had read Mary Shelley’s 18th century masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (“I used to read so many books at the village library”, Modi told the star struck Twinkle-hubby), he need not have done this embarrassing cameo. As per Wikipedia, it’s “the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment”; but the monster murders Victor’s wife Elizabeth and brother William. Ever since then, “Frankenstein” has become a noun in English, describing a creature that turns violently upon its own creator.

Now to the billion-vote question: when and how did Modi lose the narrative to his political Frankenstein(s)? Let’s begin at the beginning…

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]]> 392 Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/dear-pm-modi-take-a-trip-from-wayanad-to-rampur-vi Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigating Rahul Gandhi for “running away from majority-dominated areas” to “take refuge in areas where the majority is in minority” (read Wayanad in Kerala)? The naked implication was that Gandhi had somehow demeaned himself, committed blasphemy, by espousing the cause of minorities. In this podcast the Quint’s Editor-in-Chief talks about how this one angry speech one angry speech,resurrected the binary of “separate electorates” – that Hindus should elect only Hindus, while Muslims do the same for Muslims – that ultimately led to the bloody partition of India in 1947. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:04:40 -0000 Dear PM Modi, Take a Trip From Wayanad to Rampur Via Chicago full 266 The Quint Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigating Rahul Gandhi for “running away from majority-dominated areas” to “take refuge in areas where the majority is in minority” (read Wayanad in Kerala)? The naked implication was that Gandhi had somehow demea... Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigating Rahul Gandhi for “running away from majority-dominated areas” to “take refuge in areas where the majority is in minority” (read Wayanad in Kerala)? The naked implication was that Gandhi had somehow demeaned himself, committed blasphemy, by espousing the cause of minorities. In this podcast the Quint’s Editor-in-Chief talks about how this one angry speech one angry speech,resurrected the binary of “separate electorates” – that Hindus should elect only Hindus, while Muslims do the same for Muslims – that ultimately led to the bloody partition of India in 1947. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Why is Prime Minister Narendra Modi castigating Rahul Gandhi for “running away from majority-dominated areas” to “take refuge in areas where the majority is in minority” (read Wayanad in Kerala)?

The naked implication was that Gandhi had somehow demeaned himself, committed blasphemy, by espousing the cause of minorities.

In this podcast the Quint’s Editor-in-Chief talks about how this one angry speech one angry speech,resurrected the binary of “separate electorates” – that Hindus should elect only Hindus, while Muslims do the same for Muslims – that ultimately led to the bloody partition of India in 1947. Tune in!

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]]> 322 PM Modi, Surgically Erase 10 Economic Stats if You Return https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/pm-modi-surgically-erase-10-economic-stats-if-you The prequel to this podcast analyses the four economic reforms that this writer is willing to acknowledge under Modi 1.0; towards the end, the article lists three other data points – on FDI, bond and equity issuances – that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been spinning at business summits to fortify his “economic dynamism.” In this sequel, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl highlights Modi’s big economic missteps with stats and a barrage of data points - just the way Modiji likes it. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 05 Apr 2019 07:36:05 -0000 PM Modi, Surgically Erase 10 Economic Stats if You Return full 265 The Quint The prequel to this podcast analyses the four economic reforms that this writer is willing to acknowledge under Modi 1.0; towards the end, the article lists three other data points – on FDI, bond and equity issuances – that Prime Minister Narendra Modi... The prequel to this podcast analyses the four economic reforms that this writer is willing to acknowledge under Modi 1.0; towards the end, the article lists three other data points – on FDI, bond and equity issuances – that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been spinning at business summits to fortify his “economic dynamism.” In this sequel, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl highlights Modi’s big economic missteps with stats and a barrage of data points - just the way Modiji likes it. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The prequel to this podcast analyses the four economic reforms that this writer is willing to acknowledge under Modi 1.0; towards the end, the article lists three other data points – on FDI, bond and equity issuances – that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been spinning at business summits to fortify his “economic dynamism.”

In this sequel, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl highlights Modi’s big economic missteps with stats and a barrage of data points - just the way Modiji likes it. Tune in!

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]]> 504 Dear Rahul, You’ve Done NYAY (Justice), Now Give UMMEED (Hope) https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/dear-rahul-you-ve-done-nyay-justice-now-give-ummee Congress President Rahul Gandhi's NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or Minimum Income Plan), which involves giving Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families, is a big political idea for the 2019 polls that sent BJP political heavyweights into a panic mode. Is the NYAY scheme actually feasible? The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl explains how it can be done. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:52:59 -0000 Dear Rahul, You’ve Done NYAY (Justice), Now Give UMMEED (Hope) full 264 The Quint Congress President Rahul Gandhi's NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or Minimum Income Plan), which involves giving Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families, is a big political idea for the 2019 polls that sent BJP political heavyweights into a panic mode. ... Congress President Rahul Gandhi's NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or Minimum Income Plan), which involves giving Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families, is a big political idea for the 2019 polls that sent BJP political heavyweights into a panic mode. Is the NYAY scheme actually feasible? The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl explains how it can be done. Tune in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Congress President Rahul Gandhi's NYAY (Nyuntam Aay Yojana, or Minimum Income Plan), which involves giving Rs 72,000 each to five crore poor families, is a big political idea for the 2019 polls that sent BJP political heavyweights into a panic mode.

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]]> 407 Part 1: Modi Raj’s 4 Economic Reforms in 5 Years is Unflattering https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/part-1-modi-raj-s-4-economic-reforms-in-5-years-is Prime Minister Narendra Modi 1.0 is done. With the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections now in force, his first innings has effectively ended. As he pitches to get re-elected, we should call in his report card. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:32:09 -0000 Part 1: Modi Raj’s 4 Economic Reforms in 5 Years is Unflattering full 263 The Quint Prime Minister Narendra Modi 1.0 is done. With the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections now in force, his first innings has effectively ended. As he pitches to get re-elected, we should call in his report card. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Prime Minister Narendra Modi 1.0 is done. With the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections now in force, his first innings has effectively ended. As he pitches to get re-elected, we should call in his report card. Tune in to Raghav's Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Prime Minister Narendra Modi 1.0 is done. With the Model Code of Conduct for the general elections now in force, his first innings has effectively ended. As he pitches to get re-elected, we should call in his report card. Tune in to Raghav's Take!

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]]> 366 “De-hyphenate” Pakistan; Learn From the China/Taiwan Standoff https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/de-hyphenate-pakistan-learn-from-the-china-taiwan In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan and India/Pakistan. For seven decades now, these pairs of estranged siblings have stayed implacable foes. But as China closed in on Superpower status, it de-hyphenated from Taiwan without lessening its hostility. China is now America’s global rival, not Taiwan’s principal adversary. Unfortunately, India has remained fixated on Pakistan, even as our economic heft has multiplied manifold. Yet we continue to invest almost all our diplomatic capital in an India-Pakistan binary. This must change. A country’s standing in world affairs is defined by who its primary competitors are. India must raise its gaze from Pakistan, without lessening its chokehold, yet diminishing the high-pitched/overt importance we give it in our foreign policy narrative. Tune in to this podcast, where The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talks about why India should get away from Pakistan crossfire and give primacy to China instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 19 Mar 2019 05:40:30 -0000 “De-hyphenate” Pakistan; Learn From the China/Taiwan Standoff full 262 The Quint In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan an... In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan and India/Pakistan. For seven decades now, these pairs of estranged siblings have stayed implacable foes. But as China closed in on Superpower status, it de-hyphenated from Taiwan without lessening its hostility. China is now America’s global rival, not Taiwan’s principal adversary. Unfortunately, India has remained fixated on Pakistan, even as our economic heft has multiplied manifold. Yet we continue to invest almost all our diplomatic capital in an India-Pakistan binary. This must change. A country’s standing in world affairs is defined by who its primary competitors are. India must raise its gaze from Pakistan, without lessening its chokehold, yet diminishing the high-pitched/overt importance we give it in our foreign policy narrative. Tune in to this podcast, where The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talks about why India should get away from Pakistan crossfire and give primacy to China instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices In the late 1940s, India and China won independence from colonial rule. While the trajectories of their respective freedom movements were quite different, there was one remarkable similarity. Both broke up into two enemy nations apiece, China/Taiwan and India/Pakistan. For seven decades now, these pairs of estranged siblings have stayed implacable foes.

But as China closed in on Superpower status, it de-hyphenated from Taiwan without lessening its hostility. China is now America’s global rival, not Taiwan’s principal adversary.

Unfortunately, India has remained fixated on Pakistan, even as our economic heft has multiplied manifold. Yet we continue to invest almost all our diplomatic capital in an India-Pakistan binary. This must change. A country’s standing in world affairs is defined by who its primary competitors are. India must raise its gaze from Pakistan, without lessening its chokehold, yet diminishing the high-pitched/overt importance we give it in our foreign policy narrative.

Tune in to this podcast, where The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talks about why India should get away from Pakistan crossfire and give primacy to China instead.

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]]> 387 China, the Centrist Superpower in the India-Pakistan Dogfight https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/china-the-centrist-superpower-in-the-india-pakista Never waste a good crisis! Because what we weathered this week was a blood-curdling dogfight between India and Pakistan that could have nuked half the global population in and around South Asia.  I concede there is an element of exaggeration here, but big wars often get triggered by tiny accidents of judgement. So better to exaggerate than get tortured in a nuclear winter. Yet a crisis of such proportions is also an opportunity to grow up, become a wiser person/country. So, will India and Pakistan seize upon this dangerous wrinkle to become mature, moderate nuclear neighbours?  Listen to the full podcast now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:34:11 -0000 China, the Centrist Superpower in the India-Pakistan Dogfight full 261 The Quint Never waste a good crisis! Because what we weathered this week was a blood-curdling dogfight between India and Pakistan that could have nuked half the global population in and around South Asia.  I concede there is an element of exaggeration here, but... Never waste a good crisis! Because what we weathered this week was a blood-curdling dogfight between India and Pakistan that could have nuked half the global population in and around South Asia.  I concede there is an element of exaggeration here, but big wars often get triggered by tiny accidents of judgement. So better to exaggerate than get tortured in a nuclear winter. Yet a crisis of such proportions is also an opportunity to grow up, become a wiser person/country. So, will India and Pakistan seize upon this dangerous wrinkle to become mature, moderate nuclear neighbours?  Listen to the full podcast now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Never waste a good crisis! Because what we weathered this week was a blood-curdling dogfight between India and Pakistan that could have nuked half the global population in and around South Asia. 

I concede there is an element of exaggeration here, but big wars often get triggered by tiny accidents of judgement. So better to exaggerate than get tortured in a nuclear winter.

Yet a crisis of such proportions is also an opportunity to grow up, become a wiser person/country. So, will India and Pakistan seize upon this dangerous wrinkle to become mature, moderate nuclear neighbours? 

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]]> 375 Will Modi Pull Off an Indira (1971) or Tank Like Vajpayee (2004) https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/will-modi-pull-off-an-indira-1971-or-tank-like-vaj For those who haven’t heard, a political debate is raging on whether the 2019 elections will be modelled on 1971, when Indira Gandhi trounced a hasty, ill-matched Opposition alliance, or on 2004, when the “invincible” Vajpayee crumbled before a seemingly weak, incoherent patchwork of parties. As with Modi in 2019, both elections were fought by towering incumbents against a bevy of disparate, but united, opponents. Arithmetically, it was a one-on-one contest in most Lok Sabha constituencies. But the two outcomes were like chalk and cheese. What will be Modi’s fate? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the “how, what, why” of the landmark general elections of 1971 and 2004. Tune in to Raghav’s Take for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:36:33 -0000 Will Modi Pull Off an Indira (1971) or Tank Like Vajpayee (2004) full 260 The Quint For those who haven’t heard, a political debate is raging on whether the 2019 elections will be modelled on 1971, when Indira Gandhi trounced a hasty, ill-matched Opposition alliance, or on 2004, when the “invincible” Vajpayee crumbled before a seeming... For those who haven’t heard, a political debate is raging on whether the 2019 elections will be modelled on 1971, when Indira Gandhi trounced a hasty, ill-matched Opposition alliance, or on 2004, when the “invincible” Vajpayee crumbled before a seemingly weak, incoherent patchwork of parties. As with Modi in 2019, both elections were fought by towering incumbents against a bevy of disparate, but united, opponents. Arithmetically, it was a one-on-one contest in most Lok Sabha constituencies. But the two outcomes were like chalk and cheese. What will be Modi’s fate? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the “how, what, why” of the landmark general elections of 1971 and 2004. Tune in to Raghav’s Take for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices For those who haven’t heard, a political debate is raging on whether the 2019 elections will be modelled on 1971, when Indira Gandhi trounced a hasty, ill-matched Opposition alliance, or on 2004, when the “invincible” Vajpayee crumbled before a seemingly weak, incoherent patchwork of parties.

As with Modi in 2019, both elections were fought by towering incumbents against a bevy of disparate, but united, opponents. Arithmetically, it was a one-on-one contest in most Lok Sabha constituencies. But the two outcomes were like chalk and cheese.

What will be Modi’s fate? Before you can answer that question, you need to know the “how, what, why” of the landmark general elections of 1971 and 2004. Tune in to Raghav’s Take for more.

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]]> 411 Dear Akhilesh, Introduce Rahul and Priyanka to Deputy PM Mayawati https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/dear-akhilesh-introduce-rahul-and-priyanka-to-depu On this episode of Raghav’s Take, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl explains how SP chief Akhilesh Yadav can unite Mayawati, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to pose a formidable threat to the Modi-led BJP in the 2019 General elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:27:59 -0000 Dear Akhilesh, Introduce Rahul and Priyanka to Deputy PM Mayawati full 259 The Quint On this episode of Raghav’s Take, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl explains how SP chief Akhilesh Yadav can unite Mayawati, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to pose a formidable threat to the Modi-led BJP in the 2019 General elections. On this episode of Raghav’s Take, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl explains how SP chief Akhilesh Yadav can unite Mayawati, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to pose a formidable threat to the Modi-led BJP in the 2019 General elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices On this episode of Raghav’s Take, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl explains how SP chief Akhilesh Yadav can unite Mayawati, Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, to pose a formidable threat to the Modi-led BJP in the 2019 General elections.

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]]> 457 Modi Sir, Kudos on Your First Post-Truth Budget ! https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/modi-sir-kudos-on-your-first-post-truth-budget Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to talk up all his “pioneering firsts”. Well, he’s now added a truly lethal one to that arsenal – India’s first post-truth Budget! Exactly 18 hours before the Budget was presented in Parliament, India dramatically upped its previous two years’ GDP numbers. Ironically, the most brazen “upgrade” was reserved for 2016-17 when demonetisation had clearly ravaged the economy. How did this happen? Well, it was simply a matter of tweaking a few numbers and changing the “denominator” against which all key figures and metrics are calculated against. Listen, as Raghav Bahl explains, on this episode of Raghav’s Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:42:45 -0000 Modi Sir, Kudos on Your First Post-Truth Budget ! full 258 The Quint Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to talk up all his “pioneering firsts”. Well, he’s now added a truly lethal one to that arsenal – India’s first post-truth Budget! Exactly 18 hours before the Budget was presented in Parliament, India dramatically up... Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to talk up all his “pioneering firsts”. Well, he’s now added a truly lethal one to that arsenal – India’s first post-truth Budget! Exactly 18 hours before the Budget was presented in Parliament, India dramatically upped its previous two years’ GDP numbers. Ironically, the most brazen “upgrade” was reserved for 2016-17 when demonetisation had clearly ravaged the economy. How did this happen? Well, it was simply a matter of tweaking a few numbers and changing the “denominator” against which all key figures and metrics are calculated against. Listen, as Raghav Bahl explains, on this episode of Raghav’s Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to talk up all his “pioneering firsts”. Well, he’s now added a truly lethal one to that arsenal – India’s first post-truth Budget!

Exactly 18 hours before the Budget was presented in Parliament, India dramatically upped its previous two years’ GDP numbers. Ironically, the most brazen “upgrade” was reserved for 2016-17 when demonetisation had clearly ravaged the economy.

How did this happen? Well, it was simply a matter of tweaking a few numbers and changing the “denominator” against which all key figures and metrics are calculated against. Listen, as Raghav Bahl explains, on this episode of Raghav’s Take.

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]]> 368 Modi Sir, Your TV Pals Messed up Priyanka Gandhi’s Political Entry https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/modi-sir-your-tv-pals-messed-up-priyanka-gandhi-s Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics brought on a plethora of nervous and panicked responses from the BJP and several “star journalists”. But the Modi government’s uncouth television henchmen will bring Rahul Gandhi’s Congress roaring back to life, says Raghav Bahl. Listen to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:42:03 -0000 Modi Sir, Your TV Pals Messed up Priyanka Gandhi’s Political Entry full 257 The Quint Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics brought on a plethora of nervous and panicked responses from the BJP and several “star journalists”. But the Modi government’s uncouth television henchmen will bring Rahul Gandhi’s Congress roaring back to l... Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics brought on a plethora of nervous and panicked responses from the BJP and several “star journalists”. But the Modi government’s uncouth television henchmen will bring Rahul Gandhi’s Congress roaring back to life, says Raghav Bahl. Listen to the podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Priyanka Gandhi’s entry into active politics brought on a plethora of nervous and panicked responses from the BJP and several “star journalists”. But the Modi government’s uncouth television henchmen will bring Rahul Gandhi’s Congress roaring back to life, says Raghav Bahl. Listen to the podcast!

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]]> 370 Lutyens’ Delhi Made Modi in 2014, Will it Break Him in 2019? https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/lutyens-delhi-made-modi-in-2014-will-it-break-him The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl argues that Lutyens’ Delhi did more to propel Modi into the PMO and may even be able to bring him down in 2019. Tune in to this edition of Raghav's Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:36:36 -0000 Lutyens’ Delhi Made Modi in 2014, Will it Break Him in 2019? full 256 The Quint The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl argues that Lutyens’ Delhi did more to propel Modi into the PMO and may even be able to bring him down in 2019\. Tune in to this edition of Raghav's Take. The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl argues that Lutyens’ Delhi did more to propel Modi into the PMO and may even be able to bring him down in 2019. Tune in to this edition of Raghav's Take. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl argues that Lutyens’ Delhi did more to propel Modi into the PMO and may even be able to bring him down in 2019. Tune in to this edition of Raghav's Take.

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]]> 370 From Statue of Unity to RBI-Rift, Here’s How Modi Steered Both https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/from-statue-of-unity-to-rbi-rift-here-s-how-modi-s As a Bollywood narrator would say, in dono stories main Modi hai, Patel hai, RSS hai, aur cash bhi hai! But there is a tiny difference between the two, and that is the letter ‘t’. You see, one was about a Statue, the other about a Statute. Prime Minister Modi helmed and orchestrated both the stories. In the first one, he redeemed his 6-year-old pledge to build the world’s tallest statue on river Narmada – a 182-metre salute to Sardar Patel, an icon of India’s independence movement. In the second but bigger story, Modi threatened the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with a surgical strike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:13:28 -0000 From Statue of Unity to RBI-Rift, Here’s How Modi Steered Both full 255 The Quint As a Bollywood narrator would say, in dono stories main Modi hai, Patel hai, RSS hai, aur cash bhi hai! But there is a tiny difference between the two, and that is the letter ‘t’. You see, one was about a Statue, the other about a Statute. Prime Minis... As a Bollywood narrator would say, in dono stories main Modi hai, Patel hai, RSS hai, aur cash bhi hai! But there is a tiny difference between the two, and that is the letter ‘t’. You see, one was about a Statue, the other about a Statute. Prime Minister Modi helmed and orchestrated both the stories. In the first one, he redeemed his 6-year-old pledge to build the world’s tallest statue on river Narmada – a 182-metre salute to Sardar Patel, an icon of India’s independence movement. In the second but bigger story, Modi threatened the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with a surgical strike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices As a Bollywood narrator would say, in dono stories main Modi hai, Patel hai, RSS hai, aur cash bhi hai! But there is a tiny difference between the two, and that is the letter ‘t’. You see, one was about a Statue, the other about a Statute.

Prime Minister Modi helmed and orchestrated both the stories. In the first one, he redeemed his 6-year-old pledge to build the world’s tallest statue on river Narmada – a 182-metre salute to Sardar Patel, an icon of India’s independence movement. In the second but bigger story, Modi threatened the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) with a surgical strike.

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]]> 432 Did PM Modi Unwittingly Help Cronies, Punish Investors Over IL&FS? https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/did-pm-modi-unwittingly-help-cronies-punish-invest By not going for a TARP-like bailout, Prime Minister Modi has given an extra gain of Rs 30,000 cr to crony capitalists who allowed IL&FS to crash, while levying an extra tax of Rs 2,00,000 cr on ordinary/innocent investors, like you and me.  The above is very simple arithmetic, but a team of IAS babus (bureaucrats) will never understand it, because it is deeply suspicious of market forces. And Prime Minister Modi has surrendered his economic policies to them, keeping entrepreneurs, tailors and firemen out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 02 Nov 2018 06:58:50 -0000 Did PM Modi Unwittingly Help Cronies, Punish Investors Over IL&FS? full 254 The Quint By not going for a TARP-like bailout, Prime Minister Modi has given an extra gain of Rs 30,000 cr to crony capitalists who allowed IL&FS to crash, while levying an extra tax of Rs 2,00,000 cr on ordinary/innocent investors, like you and me.  The above... By not going for a TARP-like bailout, Prime Minister Modi has given an extra gain of Rs 30,000 cr to crony capitalists who allowed IL&FS to crash, while levying an extra tax of Rs 2,00,000 cr on ordinary/innocent investors, like you and me.  The above is very simple arithmetic, but a team of IAS babus (bureaucrats) will never understand it, because it is deeply suspicious of market forces. And Prime Minister Modi has surrendered his economic policies to them, keeping entrepreneurs, tailors and firemen out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices By not going for a TARP-like bailout, Prime Minister Modi has given an extra gain of Rs 30,000 cr to crony capitalists who allowed IL&FS to crash, while levying an extra tax of Rs 2,00,000 cr on ordinary/innocent investors, like you and me. 

The above is very simple arithmetic, but a team of IAS babus (bureaucrats) will never understand it, because it is deeply suspicious of market forces. And Prime Minister Modi has surrendered his economic policies to them, keeping entrepreneurs, tailors and firemen out.

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]]> 482 Oil, Rupee, IL&FS: Why is Modi Not Using Brahmastra? https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/oil-rupee-il-fs-why-is-modi-not-using-brahmastra Brahmastra, in the Mahabharata, is a “single projectile that is able to destroy the Universe”. Lord Rama is thought to have used it in his last battle with Ravana. Now let’s put it in context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. After four years of a blessed existence, Modi is facing his first acute economic challenge. Today, India is again teetering at the edge of a severe macro-economic imbalance: treasuries have crossed 8 percent, the rupee has plummeted by 15 percent to over 74/dollar, oil is perilously close to three figures, and hundreds of stocks are in a severe bear grip even as market indices have crashed by over 15 percent. Does he have the gumption to deploy a policy Brahmastra, to kill the crisis before it careens out of control? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 01 Nov 2018 10:23:16 -0000 Oil, Rupee, IL&FS: Why is Modi Not Using Brahmastra? full 253 The Quint Brahmastra, in the Mahabharata, is a “single projectile that is able to destroy the Universe”. Lord Rama is thought to have used it in his last battle with Ravana. Now let’s put it in context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. After four ye... Brahmastra, in the Mahabharata, is a “single projectile that is able to destroy the Universe”. Lord Rama is thought to have used it in his last battle with Ravana. Now let’s put it in context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. After four years of a blessed existence, Modi is facing his first acute economic challenge. Today, India is again teetering at the edge of a severe macro-economic imbalance: treasuries have crossed 8 percent, the rupee has plummeted by 15 percent to over 74/dollar, oil is perilously close to three figures, and hundreds of stocks are in a severe bear grip even as market indices have crashed by over 15 percent. Does he have the gumption to deploy a policy Brahmastra, to kill the crisis before it careens out of control? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Brahmastra, in the Mahabharata, is a “single projectile that is able to destroy the Universe”. Lord Rama is thought to have used it in his last battle with Ravana. Now let’s put it in context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

After four years of a blessed existence, Modi is facing his first acute economic challenge. Today, India is again teetering at the edge of a severe macro-economic imbalance: treasuries have crossed 8 percent, the rupee has plummeted by 15 percent to over 74/dollar, oil is perilously close to three figures, and hundreds of stocks are in a severe bear grip even as market indices have crashed by over 15 percent.

Does he have the gumption to deploy a policy Brahmastra, to kill the crisis before it careens out of control?

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]]> 522 IL&FS Lessons for Modi From Two Singhs – Manmohan & Jaswant https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/il-fs-lessons-for-modi-from-two-singhs-manmohan-ja Ironically, Prime Minister Modi needs to take lessons from the swift, decisive actions of two politicians he holds in disdain, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, says The Quint's founder Raghav Bahl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 04 Oct 2018 06:49:43 -0000 IL&FS Lessons for Modi From Two Singhs – Manmohan & Jaswant full 252 The Quint Ironically, Prime Minister Modi needs to take lessons from the swift, decisive actions of two politicians he holds in disdain, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, says The Quint's founder Raghav Bahl. Ironically, Prime Minister Modi needs to take lessons from the swift, decisive actions of two politicians he holds in disdain, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, says The Quint's founder Raghav Bahl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Ironically, Prime Minister Modi needs to take lessons from the swift, decisive actions of two politicians he holds in disdain, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, says The Quint's founder Raghav Bahl.

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]]> 382 Battleground 2019: What DUSU, Bypolls & ‘Peak Modi’ Indicate https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/battleground-2019-what-dusu-bypolls-peak-modi-indi The University of Delhi (DU) immeasurably helped create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political brand. His sprint towards the stunning 2014 victory had begun on 6 February 2013 at DU’s Shri Ram College of Commerce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:28:46 -0000 Battleground 2019: What DUSU, Bypolls & ‘Peak Modi’ Indicate full 251 The Quint The University of Delhi (DU) immeasurably helped create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political brand. His sprint towards the stunning 2014 victory had begun on 6 February 2013 at DU’s Shri Ram College of Commerce. The University of Delhi (DU) immeasurably helped create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political brand. His sprint towards the stunning 2014 victory had begun on 6 February 2013 at DU’s Shri Ram College of Commerce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices The University of Delhi (DU) immeasurably helped create Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political brand. His sprint towards the stunning 2014 victory had begun on 6 February 2013 at DU’s Shri Ram College of Commerce.

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]]> 413 Indian TV Channels Cower as Post-Trump US Media Puts Up a Fight https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/indian-tv-channels-cower-as-post-trump-us-media-pu President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hugely dissimilar personalities in outward conduct – one writes crude tweets, the other remains strategically silent – have nonetheless created equally polarised democracies ten thousand miles apart. And what about their attitude towards independent news platforms? Listen to The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:07:08 -0000 Indian TV Channels Cower as Post-Trump US Media Puts Up a Fight full 250 The Quint President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hugely dissimilar personalities in outward conduct – one writes crude tweets, the other remains strategically silent – have nonetheless created equally polarised democracies ten thousand miles ap... President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hugely dissimilar personalities in outward conduct – one writes crude tweets, the other remains strategically silent – have nonetheless created equally polarised democracies ten thousand miles apart. And what about their attitude towards independent news platforms? Listen to The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hugely dissimilar personalities in outward conduct – one writes crude tweets, the other remains strategically silent – have nonetheless created equally polarised democracies ten thousand miles apart. And what about their attitude towards independent news platforms? Listen to The Quint's Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl!

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]]> 399 Listen: How Did The Critic Become the Enemy in Indian Politics https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/listen-how-did-the-critic-become-the-enemy-in-indi On 28 July, the man responsible for securing our telecom and broadcast infrastructure, RS Sharma revealed his Aadhaar ID number and dared hackers to “harm”, but did he accept his defeat with humility? Listen to The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talk about the culture of intimation in our current political environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:27:10 -0000 Listen: How Did The Critic Become the Enemy in Indian Politics full 249 The Quint On 28 July, the man responsible for securing our telecom and broadcast infrastructure, RS Sharma revealed his Aadhaar ID number and dared hackers to “harm”, but did he accept his defeat with humility? Listen to The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl ... On 28 July, the man responsible for securing our telecom and broadcast infrastructure, RS Sharma revealed his Aadhaar ID number and dared hackers to “harm”, but did he accept his defeat with humility? Listen to The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief Raghav Bahl talk about the culture of intimation in our current political environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices On 28 July, the man responsible for securing our telecom and broadcast infrastructure, RS Sharma revealed his Aadhaar ID number and dared hackers to “harm”, but did he accept his defeat with humility?

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]]> 334 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/3-reasons-a-2019-khichdi-coalition-could-be-a-poli Khichdi is also a colloquial description of weak coalition governments. The phrase acquired wide currency during 1996-97, when unstable United Front regimes were formed during a sickly interregnum in India’s democracy. Today it’s back in vogue, with several pundits wondering if the 2019 polls shall throw up another khichdi coalition. Listen to The Quint's Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl analyse India's politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:39:59 -0000 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy full 1 The Quint Khichdi is also a colloquial description of weak coalition governments. The phrase acquired wide currency during 1996-97, when unstable United Front regimes were formed during a sickly interregnum in India’s democracy. Today it’s back in vogue, with se... Khichdi is also a colloquial description of weak coalition governments. The phrase acquired wide currency during 1996-97, when unstable United Front regimes were formed during a sickly interregnum in India’s democracy. Today it’s back in vogue, with several pundits wondering if the 2019 polls shall throw up another khichdi coalition. Listen to The Quint's Editor-in-Chief, Raghav Bahl analyse India's politics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Khichdi is also a colloquial description of weak coalition governments. The phrase acquired wide currency during 1996-97, when unstable United Front regimes were formed during a sickly interregnum in India’s democracy. Today it’s back in vogue, with several pundits wondering if the 2019 polls shall throw up another khichdi coalition.

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]]> 384 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/3-reasons-a-2019-khichdi-coalition-could-be-a-po-1 2019 coalition government: In an eerie replay of 1996, the BJP could become the single largest party, the Congress could come in second and a clutch of regional parties could dice the remaining seats. Here are three reasons why the 2019 "khichdi"coalition could be a political delicacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 31 Jul 2018 09:40:53 -0000 3 Reasons a 2019 ‘Khichdi’ Coalition Could Be a Political Delicacy full 248 The Quint 2019 coalition government: In an eerie replay of 1996, the BJP could become the single largest party, the Congress could come in second and a clutch of regional parties could dice the remaining seats. Here are three reasons why the 2019 "khichdi"coalit... 2019 coalition government: In an eerie replay of 1996, the BJP could become the single largest party, the Congress could come in second and a clutch of regional parties could dice the remaining seats. Here are three reasons why the 2019 "khichdi"coalition could be a political delicacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 2019 coalition government: In an eerie replay of 1996, the BJP could become the single largest party, the Congress could come in second and a clutch of regional parties could dice the remaining seats. Here are three reasons why the 2019 "khichdi"coalition could be a political delicacy.

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]]> 325 PM Modi Should Control Clumsy Propagandists Lest They Do More Harm https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/pm-modi-should-control-clumsy-propagandists-lest-t Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:18:59 -0000 PM Modi Should Control Clumsy Propagandists Lest They Do More Harm full 230 The Quint Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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]]> 414 Don’t Fall for the ‘GDP Growth’ Jumla Ahead of 2019 Elections https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/don-t-fall-for-the-gdp-growth-jumla-ahead-of-2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government treats Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the God of all economic success. PM Modi cherry-picked and talked about all the good stuff, but "overlooked" many troublesome facts, about India’s economy. Here's a reminder from Raghav Bahl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:37:49 -0000 Don’t Fall for the ‘GDP Growth’ Jumla Ahead of 2019 Elections full 212 The Quint Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government treats Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the God of all economic success. PM Modi cherry-picked and talked about all the good stuff, but "overlooked" many troublesome facts, about India’s economy. Here's a rem... Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government treats Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the God of all economic success. PM Modi cherry-picked and talked about all the good stuff, but "overlooked" many troublesome facts, about India’s economy. Here's a reminder from Raghav Bahl. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government treats Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, as the God of all economic success. PM Modi cherry-picked and talked about all the good stuff, but "overlooked" many troublesome facts, about India’s economy. Here's a reminder from Raghav Bahl.

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]]> 340 PDP-BJP: From a “Coalition of Hope” to “Coalition of Fear” https://omny.fm/shows/raghavs-take/pdp-bjp-from-a-coalition-of-hope-to-coalition-of-f Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:52:07 -0000 PDP-BJP: From a “Coalition of Hope” to “Coalition of Fear” full 196 The Quint Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear." Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Unquestionably, the Mufti-Modi Pact to create the PDP-BJP coalition government on 1 March 2015 was a Coalition of Immense Hope. Unfortunately, in three years, it had transgressed into a "Coalition of Fear."

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