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Scroll Adda
An interview podcast with newsmakers from around India and the world, spanning politics, culture, food, and the economy.
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Episodes
Scroll AddaWhy Neha Bora wants ‘regime change’
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…
Scroll AddaThe reason for Indian democracy’s downslide is collapse of judiciary | Scroll Adda
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…
Scroll AddaIs the Indian middle class dying?
After independence, the middle class ruled India. High-quality university education, good urban infrastructure, and law and order in metros: the government…
Scroll AddaFrom militant to chief minister: the remarkable life of Mizoram’s Zoramthanga |
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…
Scroll AddaWhy Mohammed Hanif uses satire to write about Pakistan | Scroll Adda
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…
Scroll AddaWhy Hindutva loves to hate Romila Thapar
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…
Scroll AddaWhy Indians have stopped reading
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…
Scroll AddaHow Iran managed to take on a superpower
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…
Scroll AddaIndia's scam epidemic
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…
Scroll AddaA ringside view of the world of social media
“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…
Scroll AddaWhy India's GDP data can't be believed
In A Sixth of Humanity, political scientist Devesh Kapur and economist Arvind Subramanian set out to do something ambitious: chart India’s development journey…
Scroll AddaDelhi’s pollution crisis needs drastic action
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…
Scroll AddaWhy Ladakh is angry with the Modi government
On September 24, shots rang through the otherwise idyllic town of Leh. Four people were killed and many more injured in police firing as protests for statehood…
Scroll AddaDoes communism have a future in India?
From the 1950s to the 1990s, left-wing thought played a major role in Indian society. From shaping the nascent Indian state after the British left, with…
Scroll AddaCan an IAS officer have a conscience?
India has, in theory, a cabinet system of government. A group of popularly elected politicians are meant to rule using consensus.In practice, of course, we…
Scroll AddaWhy is the Indian state so corrupt?
The Indian state is an almost mythical animal. Inherited by Indians from the British Raj, the state is responsible for great injustice: Indians are generally…
Scroll AddaWhy the Congress thinks India’s elections are rigged
India’s largest Opposition party is levelling an explosive charge against the Election Commission: vote rigging to favour the Bharatiya Janata Party. In…
Scroll AddaHow Varun Grover does political comedy in the Modi age
Contribute to Scroll's studio fund: https://pages.razorpay.com/scrollstudiofund Varun Grover describes himself as an anti-establishment artist. And as a…
Scroll AddaWhy this Mughal historian fears coming to India
While completing her PhD in 2012 in New York, Audrey Truschke did not imagine that her work would one day rile up a section of Indians so much that she would…
Scroll AddaWhy Devdutt Pattanaik thinks humans can't live without mythology
As a prolific mythologist with more than 60 books, Devdutt Pattanaik has single-handedly created a new genre of writing in India. His thoughtful commentaries…
Scroll AddaThe myths, politics and rich history of India’s food
Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Kayastha, Baniya – the Indian subcontinent has more varieties of food than possibly any other place on Earth. So much so that food…
Scroll AddaThe man who studies India's savarnas
India’s caste system is unique. Nowhere else in the world does this system of thousands of graded endogamous groups exist. At the top of the pyramid are the…
Scroll AddaA public historian in Modi's India
Few things seem more contested today than history. From politics to Bollywood, this once sleepy school subject dominates headlines. In an extensive chat with…
Scroll AddaHow fact checkers fight IT cell disinformation
India is drowning in fake news. And much of it is produced by its own political parties. Dedicated so-called IT cells supported by highly paid consultants push…