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Sep 13, 2022

Can Twitter curb messages that encourage suicide?

In August 2022, the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University released a report saying that they have detected a community on Twitter that is promoting self-harm. These tweets have graphic pho...

21 mins

Sep 10, 2022

How to reduce suicides in India

The World Suicide Day falls on September 10. As per the World Health Organisation, an estimated 703000 people die by suicide every year. The recent data from National Crime Records Bureau or NCRB recorded the h...

35 mins

Aug 31, 2022

In our opinion: Was offering remission to the culprits involved in Bilkis Bano's case an exception?

On August 15, 11 convicts in the case relating to Bilkis Bano during the 2002 Gujarat Riots were released. The 11 convicts were serving life sentences, and the jail time was commuted. Bilkis was 21 years old an...

43 mins

Aug 30, 2022

What is the matter with freebies culture: An economist’s view

Revadi culture seems to be the buzzword in politics today. It started with a speech made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and now has been responded to by many leaders including Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejr...

24 mins

Aug 29, 2022

Disability & Tech: How tech helps a hearing impaired journalist communicate with the world

This is part three of our miniseries on disability and technology on The Suno India Show, where we talk to people across a range of disabilities. In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Nandita Venk...

34 mins

Aug 26, 2022

Disability & Tech The first disabled Indian to live on Antarctica, struggles with infrastructure at home

This is part two of our miniseries on disability and technology on The Suno India Show, where we talk to people across a range of disabilities. In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Sai Prasad Vis...

32 mins

Aug 23, 2022

Disability & Tech: How apps help an autistic person navigate the world

This is part one of our miniseries on disability and technology on The Suno India Show, where we talk to people across a range of disabilities. In this episode, host Suryatapa Mukherjee speaks to Apurupa, a neu...

35 mins

Aug 15, 2022

Why understanding constitutional debates is relevant today

The Indian Constitution is a result of debates and deliberations by the Constituent Assembly over three years between 1946 to 1959. As a barely formed nation, what were the issues that bothered our leaders and...

34 mins

Aug 13, 2022

Drug stock outs again! What ails India’s HIV programme

On July 21, HIV positive persons started protesting outside the National AIDS Control Organisation’s office in Delhi. They are protesting the stock outs of different medicines all over the country. Stock outs o...

22 mins

Jul 31, 2022

Why are we opening Asia’s largest coal mine while promising to phase down coal?

The West Bengal government is working on opening a coal mine in the district of Birbhum. The mine in the Deucha Pachami area will be the largest in Asia and the second largest in the world. It will displace aro...

38 mins