The 2022 Indian Premier League, also known as IPL 15 or Tata IPL 2022, is scheduled to be the fifteenth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2007. The tournament is scheduled to start on 26 March 2022, and conclude with the final on 29 May 2022. The group stage of the tournament will be played entirely in the state of Maharashtra, with Mumbai and Pune hosting the matches. The full sche...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 47 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Mar 20, 2022•41 min
The pandemic has altered the destinies of not just people worldwide but of entire nations. Many developed countries despite having superior infrastructure and significant investments in public health haven’t been able to tackle the onslaught of the pandemic. It was in this backdrop that India’s ability to rise to the challenge had been written off entirely by many leading ‘experts’. Doomsday predictions were made which included mass deaths and anarchy. However, Prime Minister Modi’s robust grip ...
Mar 18, 2022•42 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 6 min
The Indian Bridge Management System is one of the most advanced public infrastructure databases in the world. The IBMS creates an inventory of all bridges in the country and rates their structural condition so that timely repair and rehabilitation work can be carried out based on the criticality of the structure. It is the largest platform in the world owned by a single owner, with a database that could exceed 1,50,000 bridge structures. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has inventoriz...
Mar 09, 2022•29 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Mar 06, 2022•44 min
India unveiled its first National Hydrogen Policy in January this year with an aim to boost production and use of cleaner sources of energy. The 2021-22 budget allocated Rs. 1500 crore for renewable energy development. Issues faced with current systems include high AT&C losses, inefficient distribution, and billing, The plan will focus on generation of hydrogen from green power resources and on linking India’s growing renewable capacity with the hydrogen economy. It will also effectively int...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 6 min
In March and April 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to begin massing thousands of military personnel and equipment near its border with Ukraine and in Crimea, representing the largest mobilization since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. This precipitated an international crisis and generated concerns over a potential invasion. Satellite imagery showed movements of armour, missiles, and heavy weaponry. The troops were partially removed by June. The crisi...
Mar 01, 2022•50 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Feb 27, 2022•52 min
Historically, India has depended on West Asian countries for energy dependency. Moreover, due to budding business in the region, especially in UAE, around 7 million Indians live here. This has also been a point of discussion in bilateral talks and agreements in the past. Since the election of the Modi government, India's discourse with the Middle East and the rest of West Asia has revolved around topics such as counterterrorism, security, defense cooperation and non-oil trade. Dr. Ningthoujam is...
Feb 22, 2022•1 hr 2 min
The legislative assembly elections are all set to get underway in 4 of India's biggest states. We will see voting on caste lines, party lines, and district favorites. From Uttar Pradesh, to Uttarakhand, to Punjab and Goa, our resident political expert Rohit Jayaraman will take up a LIVE Q&A to delve deep into the specifics of each of these states and provide insights on India's complex electoral systems.
Feb 20, 2022•1 hr 36 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Feb 20, 2022•42 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Feb 13, 2022•36 min
India's ties with Central Asia can be traced back to the ancient Silk Road, along which goods, people, and ideas flowed. Under the Modi government, there is a renewed effort to reconnect India with the region. During a recent summit, India expressed a need to boost its ties with all five central Asian nations – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The five Presidents also decided to set up a joint working group on Afghanistan. PM Modi outlined 3 focus areas for India'...
Feb 09, 2022•56 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Feb 06, 2022•59 min
Vikram Sampath is an esteemed historian and the author of five acclaimed books: Splendours of Royal Mysore, a biography of Gauhar Jaan, S Balachander, and a two-volume biography of Savarkar. In 2021, Sampath was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is a former senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, and has many many more achievements under his belt. Welcome to the podcast. As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political asce...
Feb 05, 2022•1 hr 12 min
The great war of right versus wrong was fought here. It was from this land that Lord Krishna’s wisdom—the universal truth—spread across the globe. It is the cradle of the ancient Indus-Saraswati civilization, with the sacred river Saraswati, glorified in the Rig Veda, flowing in its full might across the plains and onward. Kings and emperors used this place to expand and consolidate their empires. The East India Company, and later the British Crown, played their games here, manipulating and mana...
Feb 01, 2022•59 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Elbridge Colby is co-founder and principal of The Marathon Initiative, a policy initiative focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition. He is the author of The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict (Yale University Press), which The Wall Street Journal selected as one of the top ten books of 2021. Previously, Colby was from 2018-2019 the Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New Ameri...
Jan 29, 2022•1 hr 16 min
The 2020–2022 global chip shortage is an ongoing crisis in which the demand for integrated circuits (commonly known as semiconductor chips) is greater than the supply, affecting more than 169 industries[3] and has led to major price increases, shortages and queues amongst consumers for automobiles, graphics cards, video game consoles, computers, and other products that require semiconductors.[4][5][6] Commonly cited causes for the shortage include the COVID-19 pandemic, the China–United States t...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Jan 24, 2022•57 min
Prof. Shamika Ravi is VP @ ORF, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute, and a former member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. She is one of the most recognized people in Developmental Economics in India today. We hosted Prof. Ravi in Aug 2020 for a data-led analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic; she spoke about the rising infections, impact of lockdowns, how various states have performed, impact on healthcare infrastructure, innovation and economy, and the way out....
Jan 22, 2022•33 min
Legislative Assembly elections will be held in Goa on 14 February 2022 to elect 40 members of the Goa Legislative Assembly. The votes will be counted and the results will be declared on 10 March 2022. In this election, we are seeing major parties from all over the country such as BJP, Congress, TMC, and AAP competing for seats in the first assembly elections of 2022. We have our resident political experts, Rohit Jayaraman and Nimish Joshi, break down the various parties and players they bring to...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 3 min
India have lost yet another series away from home, this time against South Africa / Virat Kohli stepped down as Test captain yesterday Besides the batsmen’s failures, Kohli listed inconsistency, lack of application, lapse in concentration and their inability to seize the crunch moments as reasons for the loss. South Africa won the series 2-1. Also, yesterday Virat Kohli announced on social media that he will be stepping down as Test Captain. On this livestream, Abhishek Paul, Mahek Vyas, and Nir...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Instagram).
Jan 16, 2022•44 min
Samuel Ramani is a politics and international relations tutor at the University of Oxford, where he completed his DPhil. An associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, he contributes regularly to Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera English and CNN International. He tweets as @samramani2.
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 15 min
On this special episode, we look back at 21 moments from 2021 across 86 episodes covering Politics, Policy, and Culture. Watch this video and check out our best moments from the last year. Jeffrey Archer - Why He Releases in India First - https://youtu.be/l4E3BOvdEyM Vijay Gokhale - How Does China Negotiate - https://youtu.be/jgEv4C86HFk Velina - New Geopolitical Order Post-Trump - https://youtu.be/jrtW5rHJfSs Hizbu - Humanitarian Situation In Afghanistan - https://youtu.be/EiZR1EOfo5k Sanjeev S...
Jan 15, 2022•1 hr 8 min
The Bharatvaarta Weekly is our reaction to the news headlines of the week that was. This week we spoke about rising number of COVID cases, PM Modi's visit to Punjab, India's upcoming Test match, and India's rising GDP. If you liked this episode, then don’t forget to subscribe to our channel and share this content. You can stay updated with everything at Bharatvaarta by following us on social media: we're @bharatvaarta on Twitter, facebook.com/bharatvaarta.in on Facebook, and @bharatvaarta on Ins...
Jan 09, 2022•44 min
Tuhin A. Sinha is an Indian author and politician. He is known for the novels Mission Shengzhan, a topic of a previous episode on Bharatvaarta, and today's topic of discussion, The Legend Of Birsa Munda; a dramatized account of one of the unsung heroes of India's independence movement. In 19th century India, deep in the heart of what is now the state of Jharkhand, the Adivasis have been leading a life of absolute misery and darkness. The colonial state, with the help of its scheming local collab...
Jan 05, 2022•34 min•Ep. 165
Domestic equities rose to their peak levels in October on strong global cues with P/E multiples touching 31 for the Sensex. This then prompted a sell-off by foreign investors, prompting them to pull a whopping ₹13,550 crore from Indian equities during the month. Indian stocks have witnessed a heavy outflow of foreign investment - a key driver for domestic equities - over the past two months. Benchmarks like Sensex have corrected nearly 10 per cent from their record high levels. Both the Sensex a...
Dec 27, 2021•51 min•Ep. 164
