The Wire Talks

This week on The Wire Talks, host Sidharth Bhatia is joined by investigative reporter Ashish Khetan, whose new book 'Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva' describes his many forays int...

26 Jan 202124min

Rabindranath Tagore was a Renaissance man. An author, a poet, a musician and a playwright. He also wrote on a wide variety of issues. Tagore was a literary giant, not only in India, but across the wor...

19 Jan 202129min

For the past month and a half, thousands of farmers of Punjab and Haryana have been camping near the borders of Delhi to protest against the three new laws passed by the Modi Government. The farmers f...

12 Jan 202140min

In December 2019, the students of JNU - Jawaharlal Nehru University were attacked by a mob that broke onto the campus. The students were protesting in support of their demands, which included the scal...

22 Dec 202031min

This week on The Wire Talks, Sidharth Bhatia is joined by Harsh Mander, author, columnist, teacher and social activist. Harsh is an activist for harmony and love. In 2002, Harsh Mander left his job as...

15 Dec 202046min

125 years ago, Bombay was hit by a deadly disease called 'the plague'. Nobody had seen anything like it, a large number of people were losing their lives everyday due to this disease, and the hospital...

8 Dec 202039min

This week, Sidharth Bhatia is joined by the extremely talented filmmaker and screenwriter Zoya Akhtar. Zoya has been a part of some of the most successful and well received Hindi movies in recent year...

1 Dec 202045min

Smog issues in parts of India, especially in the north, have reached hazardous levels. This is the case not just in Delhi and it's neighbourhoods, but in most of North India. Residents are breathing n...

24 Nov 202041min