Threadbare
Fountain Ink's flagship multi-part podcast show where we examine where we are going, whether it’s jobs for the new economy or why voters rarely punish a political defector. We provide arguments and analysis from experts in the attempt to understand all the angles of a story.
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- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 8
- Years Active
- 2023
Can cities survive extreme rainfall?
Cyclone Michaung flooded Chennai and its neighbouring districts, bringing to the forefront questions of urban land use, planning, ecology and preservation of lakebeds and river basins. In this episod…
00:11:46 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
Why has Khalistan found home in Canada
In this episode of Threadbare, host G. K. Rao does a deep dive into the Sikh separatist movement which has a past riddled with terrorism and deaths, and which at the present finds favour among Sikhs …
00:11:59 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
The war in Gaza
An analysis of what's happening at Gaza; who can stop Israel; and how the path to peace lies in addressing the historical injustices meted out to the Palestinian people.
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00:14:41 |
Tue 31 Oct 2023
Curriculum revision in India obscures the real issues in education
In the final part of Fountain Ink's podcast on India's curriculum revision, we speak to educationist R. Govinda who says the rewriting of history textbooks has become a political project, and the deb…
00:21:30 |
Sat 16 Sep 2023
India's great textbook rewriting project
What's behind the recent revision of textbooks in India? What's been left out and what's been brought in? Have textbooks always been a battleground of political ideologies? What's the history of text…
00:33:49 |
Thu 24 Aug 2023
The Great Nicobar Port: The plan to conquer the Indian Ocean sea lanes
In the final part of our deep dive into the proposed Great Nicobar Project, we examine the economic case for a transshipment terminal at India's southern most island. Will it manage to snare away tra…
00:16:14 |
Mon 24 Jul 2023
The Nicobar project
In part one of our two-part series on the proposed mega development project in Great Nicobar island we speak with Dr. Pankaj Sekhsaria, an environment scientist at IIT-Bombay who has studied the isla…
00:28:17 |
Mon 17 Jul 2023
An island in peril
The island of Great Nicobar is one of India's remotest spots. It is here that the government is planning a Rs 72,000-crore project to build a massive container terminal, India's largest. It size and …
00:10:22 |
Mon 10 Jul 2023
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