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Frontline Conversations — 121 episodes

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Arup Kumar Dutta on Assam tea plantations, colonialism, and "Leaves No Longer Green"

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"Unapologetic": Indo-Canadian journalist Haroon Siddiqui on identity, migration, & media narratives

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Inside the US-Iran deal: Talmiz Ahmad on Trump, Israel, Iran, and a changing Middle East

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Inside the TMC crisis: Sagarika Ghose on power, loyalty, and politics

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Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek, and the struggle for Trinamool's future | Jawhar Sircar

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TMC split explained: Ritabrata Banerjee on corruption, power, and rebellion

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Engineer Rashid’s family on jail, grief, and Kashmir politics

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Why Amaravati became India's most controversial capital project | Carol Upadhya interview

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Can the Cockroach Janta Party become India's next political movement? | Abhijeet Dipke

10

North vs South? Yogendra Yadav explains the real delimitation battle

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Why Kashmir’s lakes are vanishing | Dal, Wular, & Anchar under threat

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Inside India’s NEET crisis: Paper leak mafia, coaching industry & NTA failures | Anita Rampal speaks

13

Suhas Palshikar explains the delimitation row: North vs South, federalism, and women’s reservation

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West Bengal election 2026: Identity politics, vote banks, and the BJP vs Trinamool battle

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Dalit history month: Tamil writer Bama on Ambedkar, Dalit unity, and the politics of identity

16

Francesca Albanese on the genocide in Gaza, Israeli jail torture reports, and crisis of global law

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Tamil Nadu election 2026: Social media narratives, war rooms, and players

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Shailaja Paik on Ambedkar, caste "vulgarity", and women’s bodies

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Will Vijay’s TVK disrupt DMK and AIADMK? |Tamil Nadu election 2026

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Will West Bengal see its most communal election yet?

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DMK manifesto 2026: Key promises, alliances, & welfare politics | Manuraj Shunmugasundaram speaks

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Puducherry election 2026: Can Congress return to power? | V. Narayanasamy explains

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Tamil Nadu election 2026: DMK vs AIADMK, alliances, and Vijay’s entry

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Inside AIADMK strategy: EPS leadership, BJP alliance, and TVK challenge

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K. Kavitha on Delhi liquor case, Tihar jail, and new party plans

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Can science in India be a dream job? | Dr Karishma S. Kaushik explains

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Will Iran lose the war? Defence expert Pravin Sawhney explains

28

Journeying the Brahmaputra: China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam, river dolphins, and pirate encounters

29

LDF vs UDF vs BJP: Is Kerala now a tripolar political battlefield? CPI(M) MP John Brittas explains

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Why we can’t control trust: Professor Thomas Müller on media, AI, & love in modern society

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Why India doesn’t know how many denotified tribes exist | G. N. Devy

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Why denotified tribes are missing from Indian cinema | Dakxin Chharra

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Anna Mani: The story of a great Indian scientist

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SIR voter list chaos: Former CEC O. P. Rawat on India's election crisis | Frontline

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Caste in Indian cities: Why urbanisation has not brought equality

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How crime, policing, and evil shape Delhi | Rudraneil Sengupta on "The Beast Within"

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The people of Ladakh wish to be part of the open world: Siddiq Wahid

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Aatish Taseer on Modi, exile, and the idea of India

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The historian’s charge is not to forget: Audrey Truschke

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CBFC being used as backdoor to control freedom of expression: Honey Trehan

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Yogendra Yadav exposes Bihar SIR crisis: Why EC deleted 65 lakh voters?

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How rich schools keep caste alive - Surinder Jodhka explains

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ECI trust crisis: Why Lokniti-CSDS survey shocks Indian politics | Sanjay Kumar explains

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More than 80 per cent might say they don't have faith in the Election Commission: Manoj Kumar Jha

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Misunderstanding a story for history is pathetic: Indologist R. Balakrishnan

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The Truth About Women’s Work in India | Working Girls by Paromita Vohra

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What’s happening in Bihar is a template for how elections will be conducted across India: Dipankar

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Don’t focus on the idea that only export-led manufacturing creates jobs: Raghuram Rajan

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Cricket's interests are perennially at risk of being secondary to political interests: Gideon Haigh

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Bihar is still less Hindutva-oriented than other States: Ashish Ranjan

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The onus is now on the people to prove they are citizens: Jagdeep S. Chhokar on SIR

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Water is a universal language and water scarcity also has the same language: Nimal Raghavan

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Iran-Israel War | 'Iran sees itself in a moral fight, not a military fight': Syed Akif Zaidi

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Raj Kapoor never stopped experimenting: Nasreen Munni Kabir

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Pakistan has always considered India as an existential threat: General N.C. Vij

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India has now got the strategic space to act against Pakistan: Ajai Shukla

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India and Pakistan are still very much on the razor's edge: Ramanathan Kumar

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For RSS-BJP-Hindutva, Gandhi is the real enemy: Ashutosh

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Trade is very central to Trump's world view: Navtej Sarna, former Ambassador to the US

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'Fears of demographic change in Kashmir are real': Waheed Parra

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Is Caste-Based Data the Key to Solving India's Inequality Crisis? | Interview with Sumeet Mhaskar

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Abdulrazak Gurnah: 'Larger prosperity in the world has opened up possibilities but also hostilities'

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EXCLUSIVE | Banu Mushtaq: I started writing to challenge patriarchy | International Booker Prize

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'Corruption in the judiciary is a virus that is spreading': Prashant Bhushan

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'Ambedkar was clear: Hindu Raj would be the biggest calamity for India': Anand Teltumbde

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Why honour killing still exists in India: Lata Singh speaks

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Kashmir, custody, and the cost of politics | Waheed Parra explains

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How the Indian Army handles religion and uniform: Lt General D. S. Hooda explains

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Is India really the fastest-growing economy? Economist Arun Kumar breaks down the reality of numbers

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Delhi blast: Ex-IB Chief Yashovardhan Azad on India’s security gaps

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Why India exists because of the monsoon | Author Sunil Tambe explains

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What makes Serendipity Arts Festival so unique? Sunil Kant Munjal explains.

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Why are human-tiger conflicts growing in India? Ullas Karanth explains

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Prashant Bhushan on SIR, voter deletions, and the ECI’s credibility crisis

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BJP is no longer denying caste; it is managing it politically: Anand Teltumbde

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Being Tamil is an identity you acquire by doing, by speaking, by belonging: Vignesh Rajahmani

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Bihar election 2025: Why CPI(M-L) is a big factor this time | Dipankar explains

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Frontline Exclusive | I’m asking the RSS to follow the law of the land: Priyank Kharge

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Ghatam player Sumana: Breaking barriers in Carnatic music

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West Bengal flood crisis: Climate change or dam failure?| Nilanjan Ghosh explains

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Voices from Kalyan Bigha

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AI is being trained to replace us: Sushin Shyam

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Is Bihar’s caste equation changing again in 2025? | Prof. Abdul Qadir explains

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King will not contest elections; he knows the limits of his support: Ranjit Rae

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India must acknowledge that its treatment of Muslims has repercussions: Debapriya Bhattacharya

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Delimitation Debate | 'India should now think of extreme decentralisation': Nilakantan R.S.

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EXCLUSIVE | 'The two-state solution died a long time ago': Gideon Levy on Gaza conflict

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'Cinema is hope': Goutam Ghose

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'WTO, as we know it, is finished': Mohan Kumar, retired diplomat

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'Relieved that the Adani wind energy project has been annulled': Rohan Pethiyagoda

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'Zakia Jafri was more than a widow seeking justice': Zara Chowdhary

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We wanted to understand the civilisation we come from: Thangam Thenarasu

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'Only Delhi has this kind of a khichdi, mish-mash governance': Jasmine Shah

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Greenwashing in Indian Railways? | '100% Electrification Will Result in Suboptimal Use of Assets': K. Balakesari

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Gauri Lankesh rejected neutral journalism: Rollo Romig

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The West's hypocrisy has become almost unbearable: Kanwal Sibal

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'Opposition has a role to play in democracy, but they must do so responsibly': Najma Heptulla

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'Syria is looking at a long period of instability': Talmiz Ahmad

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'I often compare Indian history with Game of Thrones': Ira Mukhoty

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Aparajita Bill a political gimmick: Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

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India needs to engage with Bangladesh much more proactively: Sudeep Chakravarti

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Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Elections: What's the deal?

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Hema Committee Report | 'It cannot get dirtier, it can only get cleaner': Bina Paul

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It’s all about power and the entitlement to misuse it: Sreelekha Mitra

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EXCLUSIVE | 'Absolute majority for Mahayuti': Sunil Tatkare on Maharashtra Assembly election

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EXCLUSIVE | 'We're Ahead by 2 Lakh Votes in Mumbai': BJP’s Ashish Shelar on Dharavi, Development, and Elections

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EXCLUSIVE | Aaditya Thackeray on Maharashtra's future & MVA's vision

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Hema Committee Report will make Malayalam film industry safer: Revathi

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'Article 370 should be the concern of the republic itself': Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami

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'Every one of us is a minority in this country’: Yogendra Yadav

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Waqf Amendment Bill | 'They've brought it with vengeance': K. Rahman Khan, former Union Minister

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What is happening in Bangladesh? | In conversation with Swati Narayan, author and academic

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'We shed blood for the idea of India. But we feel betrayed now': Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, Srinagar MP

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'Every hour, six people die of snake bite in India': Sumanth Bindumadhav

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Will the new criminal laws make India a police state? | Rebecca John in conversation with Saba Naqvi

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'India doesn't tolerate differences, it celebrates': Sasikanth Senthil

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Saikat Majumdar: 'The scariest thing is the chance to live by your own convictions'

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The Great Nicobar Betrayal

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'Federalism should be back to what it was': Christophe Jaffrelot

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Frontline Conversations | Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in conversation with Amit Baruah

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Amit Baruah in conversation with Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami