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  • Why Neha Bora wants ‘regime change’

    October 29, 2026 · 41 min

    Unless you were under a rock the past few weeks, you must have seen images of Neha Bora sprinting away from the Delhi Police demanding the removal of Gyanesh Kumar, the Chief Election Commissioner, now accused of rigging the voter rolls in…

  • The reason for Indian democracy’s downslide is collapse of judiciary | Scroll Adda

    October 2, 2026 · 51 min

    The reason for Indian democracy’s downslide is the collapse of judiciary Few people know more about India’s courts than Indira Jaising. In a career spanning more than half a century, Jaising has practised both at the Bombay High Court and…

  • Is the Indian middle class dying?

    August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

    After independence, the middle class ruled India. High-quality university education, good urban infrastructure, and law and order in metros: the government strove to meet white collar India's needs. Today, however, argues investor Saurabh…

  • From militant to chief minister: the remarkable life of Mizoram’s Zoramthanga |

    June 26, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    In 1966, a 22-year-old Zoramthanga joined the Mizo National Front and started an armed struggle to secede from the Indian Union. Over the next two decades, he was on the move: India, East Pakistan, Burma and, after East Pakistan became…

  • Why Mohammed Hanif uses satire to write about Pakistan | Scroll Adda

    May 29, 2026 · 50 min

    Based on the 1988 aircraft crash that killed Zia-ul-Haq, the military dictator of Pakistan, A Case of Exploding Mangoes made a big splash in the South Asian literary world when it was released in 2008. Readers loved that a desi writer was…

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  • Why Hindutva loves to hate Romila Thapar

    May 1, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    Very few things are as controversial in today’s India as its history. The academic discipline now sits at the heart of popular politics, with the Bharatiya Janata Party and its Hindutva supporters using India’s medieval past to power its…

  • Why Indians have stopped reading

    April 10, 2026 · 60 min

    Few people know more about Indian publishing than Scroll's books editor, Arunava Sinha. Sinha has translated an incredible 100 books from Bengali to English. On this episode of Scroll Adda, he tells Shoaib Daniyal about his experience as a…

  • How Iran managed to take on a superpower

    March 25, 2026 · 48 min

    Over the past months, the entire world watched in surprise as Iran stood up to the most powerful militaries in the world. On February 28, when the US and Israel launched attacks on Iran, killing its head of state, Trump was hoping for a…

  • India's scam epidemic

    February 13, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    We all know someone who has been scammed over the internet. It could be a dramatic digital arrest scam or something milder like a phishing scam. In her new book, Scamlands, journalist Snigdha Poonam explores this epidemic. For many…

  • A ringside view of the world of social media

    January 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    “In the age of monetisation, we cannot judge the internet based on morality,” argues Anurag Minus Verma, podcaster and multimedia artist. In this episode of Adda, the host of the widely popular Anurag Minus Verma Podcast speaks with Shoaib…

  • Why India's GDP data can't be believed

    December 19, 2025 · 56 min

    In A Sixth of Humanity, political scientist Devesh Kapur and economist Arvind Subramanian set out to do something ambitious: chart India’s development journey from Nehru to Modi. In this episode of Adda, they sit down with Shoaib Daniyal…

  • Delhi’s pollution crisis needs drastic action

    December 12, 2025 · 56 min

    In almost any other city in the world, Delhi’s apocalyptic pollution levels would have sparked alarm. In India, however, it is business as usual. Governments are wary of taking action and even the once-activist judiciary is now lying…

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An interview podcast with newsmakers from around India and the world, spanning politics, culture, food, and the economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.