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Hosted by Urvashi Sarkar, Beyond Nation and State is a show about international affairs from a South Asia perspective. It will feature discussions about identity literature and culture and provide a very wide perspective on what we mean by international affairs.
Urvashi is an independent journalist based in India, with a focus on international politics, gender and culture. She is working on a book on Indian think tanks, to be published by HarperCollins.
May 02, 2022
Press freedom is increasingly endangered across the world. At least 28 journalists were killed due to their work in 2021, with India and Mexico topping the list of countries with the most media worker deaths, a...
58 mins
Apr 29, 2022
Sri Lanka is in the midst of an acute crisis. Thousands of Sri Lankans are on the streets protesting shortages and the soaring cost of food, medicines and fuel. Long power cuts and no cooking gas are causing Sr...
54 mins
Mar 09, 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has inaugurated a dangerous era of world politics with a huge human cost. Overnight, more than 1 million people have already become refugees, fleeing to neighbouring countries such...
58 mins
Feb 28, 2022
Ethnic communities in Myanmar have long borne the brunt of abusive military rule since the military staged a coup against the democratically elected government in 1962. Time and again ethnic people especially i...
52 mins
Jan 31, 2022
Urdu is a major South Asian language spoken in large parts of India and Pakistan. In India, it is one of the 22 languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution while in Pakistan Urdu is the...
65 mins
Dec 20, 2021
The discipline of international relations and its practice, which includes foreign policy, is an esoteric field. Debates on foreign policy and international relations are abstract and rarefied as if it doesn’t...
54 mins
Nov 30, 2021
Increasingly powerful and wealthy corporations are challenging the might of the state, though in most cases, states facilitate their rise to those powerful positions. In many cases, corporations also behave as...
56 mins
Oct 30, 2021
Defence modernisation is a declared priority of successive Indian governments. When some years ago, the Indian Air Force sought to replace its outdated aircraft, major defence equipment manufacturing companies...
44 mins
Sep 30, 2021
The Sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change strongly concludes that human beings are almost wholly responsible for climate change and its calamitous effects. The Conference of Parties (COP), an annual m...
47 mins
Aug 30, 2021
Despite the presence of and intervention from foreign forces, the people of Afghanistan have always sought peace, which continues to evade them. In attempting to make sense of events in Afghanistan, what is the...
65 mins