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Class Room & New India || Midweek Matters 47 || Parakala Prabhakar
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - February 23, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode, Dr Parakala shares with you some of his thoughts about class room, and the experience of his journey through that sacred space. He also talks about the changes that are beginning to take shape in the class rooms in our New India.
Hijab Vs Saffron Scarf | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (44)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - February 16, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Dr Parakala examines the hijab controversy, understand what is being played out in Karnataka, and reflect on the sub text these unfolding events contain.
Decoding Deccan Messages | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (43)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - February 11, 2022 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwo different messages came from the Deccan last week. One from the Prime Minister and the event he participated. The other, to the Prime Minister from the Chief Minister of Telangana. In this week's Episode, Dr Parakala Prabhakar decodes those messages, interprets them and shares his reflection...
Subhas Bose & New India's Legacy Raid | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (42)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - February 02, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNew India's latest attempt is to appropriate the legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. In this episode, Dr Parakala Prabhakar reflects on the dark attempts by the New India's leadership not only to appropriate the legacies of the heroes of India’s freedom movement but also to portray them as rig...
Oxfam Inequality Report, Piketty & New India | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (41)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - January 26, 2022 09:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Parakala speaks about Thomas Piketty's absorbing book, Capital and Ideology and the recently released Oxfam's report, Inequality Kills which has an India supplement also. He suggests that we all engage with these two works, challenge them. And, even if we do not agree with them, we should all...
Bolted Horses, Burnt Chariot & Uttar Pradesh Polls | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (40)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - January 19, 2022 08:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Dr Parakala Prabhakar shares his reflections on the state of play in Uttar Pradesh.
Farmers, Economists & Democracy | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (39)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - December 24, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere is an insidious project underway with regard to the now repealed Farm Laws. The ruling party, an influential section of our economists, a large and vocal section of the urban middle class, and the mainstream media are stealthily, but effectively, pushing a narrative. In this Episode Dr Par...
New India: How Not To Be Gaslighted By It | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (38)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - December 15, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Parakala dwells on the main features of India's dominant national public discourse in the Episode. Today in India political discourse has come to such a stage that if you support the government and praise the Kashi Vishwanath corridor you’re a nationalist and a patriot. And if you speak about...
New India & Modi's Squandered Mandates | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (37)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - December 08, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Parakala Prabhakar meditates on the import of the rapidly parading events since New India's journey began in 2014, and asks if the 2014 and 2019 mandates are squandered, the trust reposed in the leadership by the people belied and shares his reflections with you.
New India & Modi's Squandered Mandates | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (37)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - December 08, 2021 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Parakala Prabhakar meditates on the import of the rapidly parading events since New India's journey began in 2014, and asks if the 2014 and 2019 mandates are squandered, the trust reposed in the leadership by the people belied and shares his reflections with you.
BJP & Five State Elections: State of Play | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (36)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - November 10, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe BJP has concluded its National Executive Committee meeting in New Delhi three days ago. Newspapers told us that among other things, the party's top leadership has discussed its Rana Niti, meaning strategy, for the impending elections to the five state Assemblies. We all know that real strate...
1 Billion Jabs: Let’s Join the Celebration! | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (35)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - October 27, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIndia administered the Billionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine on 21 October. The government and the ruling party are marking the occasion with huge celebrations across the country. Dr Parakala unpacks the core messaging contained in these celebrations, what it set out to say as well as what it tried...
RSS: Stronger Presence & Wronger Vision | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (34)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - October 20, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Vijaya Dasami Address of the Sasanghchalak of RSS is an important annual event. His address to the would be citizens of the Hindu Rashtra that is in the making is supposed to be an occasion to guide them on how to think about the world around them. And provide them with an agenda for action ...
Lakhimpur Kheri: Modi-BJP's Mann Ki Baat | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (33)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - October 13, 2021 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt is important that we need to carefully unpack the ghastliness of Lakhimpur Kheri event. Recall what happened before and after the SUV ran over and killed the farmers. Connect those events to understand the context of the event. And to decipher its loud as well as the quiet messaging that it c...
Congress: Unsure of Conscience & Constituency? | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (32)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - October 06, 2021 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe deep organisational crisis in the Congress Party is apparent. It is yet to confidently settle for a full time President since its massive defeat in the 2019 general elections, its second successive defeat. In this Episode, Dr Parakala shares his reflections on the background to this sorry st...
Abnormalise & Eventify: Modi’s BJP Shuns The Normal | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (31)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - September 29, 2021 05:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode, Dr Parakala reflects on the attempts by the BJP, the union government and the PM Modi himself to shun the ordinary and normal, embrace the extraordinary and the abnormal, their collective need for eventification of everything done by the PM and his government, and what this coll...
Yogi Adityanath's Abba Jaan Remark | Mid Week Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (30)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - September 22, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode, Dr Parakala speaks about how UP CM Yogi Adityanath's Abba Jaan remark was so very predictable, and how it simply followed a pattern that is now quite normal under the New BJP. He also traces the origins of such dog whistle remarks, calculated to summon the base instincts of hatr...
Our Universities: Our Best Are Not Good Enough? | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (29)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - September 15, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLast week NIRF 2021 report was released by the union education minister. In this Episode, Dr Parakala speaks about its findings, and shares his reflections on them by putting them in a global perspective. . . . Link to NIRF portal: https://www.nirfindia.org/2021/Ranking.html Link to WIPO Port...
Bhabanipur: Has the BJP Blinked? | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (28)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - September 08, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Dr Parakala looks at the contrasting findings of surveys conducted by india Today (Mood of The Nation) and Morning Consult, and shows how they could help us understand BJP's present reluctance to engagement in Bengal, especially with regard to Bhabanipur by-election. Link to the...
New BJP's New India & Nehru | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (27)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - September 01, 2021 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingParakala talks about the extraordinary act of omission of Jawaharlal Nehru from the Amritmahotsav poster by ICHR and points out it’s pettiness. He contrasts this brazen attempt by the funding body and its minders with the assessment of Nehru by his colleagues, and those the architects of New Ind...
Taliban & India’s Own Great Game | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (26)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - August 25, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingParakala dwells on what the recent developments in Afghanistan signal about the west's preparedness to fight for the values of liberal democracy world wide, and their potential to alter the terms of the global discourse on democracy, autocracy, identity, and political legitimacy. And how these e...
Modi Vs Modi 2014-2021 | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (25)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - August 18, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode of Midweek Matters, Dr Parakala looks back at all the seven speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2014 until last year, and puts this year's speech against the back drop of his utterances in those. And tries to understand from them the shift that has taken place between 2...
BJP-RSS & The Rabbit-Duck Illusion | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (24)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - August 11, 2021 09:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode, Dr Parakala speaks about how the Rabbit-Duck Illusion is helpful for us to understand the current political scenario in India. He dwells on how for a large and significant section of the people the Hindu-Hindutva construct of Indian identity did not appear as an acceptable polit...
India's Unemployed, Unemployable & Unskilled | Parakala Prabhakar | Midweek Matters (23)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - August 04, 2021 12:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this Episode Dr Parakala returns to the population question and examines it from the point of view of demographic dividend. He would also look at the employment and unemployment figures that came out a few days ago, and tries to place the demographic dividend in the context of our population'...
Pegasus & Turning India Into Surveillance State | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (22)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - July 28, 2021 08:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRevelations by Pegasus Project have created a storm across the globe. A list of about 50,000 phone numbers from across the globe are accessed by a Paris based non-profit journalism portal. The list of potential and intended targets identified by the clients of NSO Group, the Israeli company that...
BJP’s Population Politics & India's Population Policy | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (21)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - July 22, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUttar Pradesh announced a new population policy recently. Assam implemented one from 2017. PM Modi expressed concern about population explosion in 2019. In this episode, Dr Parakala examines the data on India's population growth, the trends of total fertility rates over the years, and the projec...
Who Killed Father Stan Swamy? | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (20)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - July 14, 2021 07:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShould Father Stan Swamy have died? Died in this way? Why did it happen? Who is responsible for it? Was the Indian State threatened by Stan Swamy? Why was it threatened? Is our Republic safer today with his death? These questions haunted Dr Parakala. He tried to search for answers. In this Episo...
Religious India, Political India & PEW Report | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (19)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - July 07, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Parakala speaks about the important findings of the PEW Report on Religion in India and explores what could be their implications for our polity. He teases out the not so very obvious political messages those findings contain. And examine what do they tell us about the foundatio...
India's Covid Children | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (18)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - June 30, 2021 08:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingObserving the schooling as well as the lack of it of two boys prompted Parakala to look at the larger picture of what’s happening with our children across the country during the Covid lockdown. In this week's episode, Parakala shares with you what he found and speaks about the direct and indirec...
Cabinet Reshuffle Or Farm Laws Reset: What’s The Priority? | Midweek Matters | Parakala Prabhakar (17)
Midweek Matters with Dr. Parakala Prabhakar - June 23, 2021 09:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere are reports that the Prime Minister is planning to rejig his Cabinet.In this edition, Dr Parakala Prabhakar argues that a Cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to yield much political dividend. What’s more important now is for the government to reset its policies. Especially to reset its policy on...
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