On Point With Kartikeya: Recent Episodes

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On Point is a weekly Twitter Spaces talk show hosted by News9 executive editor Kartikeya Sharma. It’s a platform for the airing, and critical analysis, of divergent points of view, predicated on intellectual rigour and civil discourse.

Producer: Akash Pandey

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News9's Kartikeya Sharma discusses 'The rise of #Bhindranwale 2.0. How will #AmritpalSingh’s radical Khalsa politics shape #Punjab’s future?' with Aditya Raj Kaul,  Prof Rajiv Lochan, & former DGP Punjab Shashi Kant

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Balochistan is engulfed in flames as Pakistan faces economic collapse amid political turmoil. Why does Pak want to hide human rights abuses in Balochistan from the international community? Kartikeya Sharma discusses with Aditya Raj Kaul 

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Has Bharat Jodo Yatra Yatra remade Rahul Gandhi's image? Kartikeya in conversation with senior journalist Vinod Sharma.

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News9 Plus' Kartikeya speaks to Lt Gen Rakes Sharma & Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan on 'Return of the Tank: Will the Modern Fighting Machine Change the Course of the War in #Ukraine?

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News9's Kartikeya Sharma, senior journalists Sugata Raju , R Raja Gopalan & professor Ashwani discuss the 'The Tamil Nadu standoff: Dravidianism and BJP’s cultural Hindutva  why the two ideologies cannot reconcile.'

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Joshimath sinking, families forced to migrate, development projects put on hold. News9's Kartikeya discusses with senior journalists Nivedita Khandekar , Kavita Upadhyay & Geologist Harsh Vatsa.

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After targeted killings of  Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir, now brutal massacre of Hindus in Rajouri. Decoding Pakistan’s plan behind the carnage. News9 Plus podcast with Kartikeya Sharma, Aditya Raj Kaul, Sonam Mahajan & Manu Khajuria

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Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and RLD top leaders are shying away from joining. News9's Kartikeya decodes it with senior journalists Rasheed Kidwai & Brijesh Pandey - 'Why UP's opposition parties are skipping the yatra?’

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"If the popular opinion has become illiberal then the liberal response has become undemocratic".

Author, historian Vikram Sampath, and journalist, senior adviser, Ministry of I&B Kanchan Gupta join the conversation with News9's Kartikeya Sharma on Decolonisation of freedom struggle or rewriting.

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In this inaugural episode of Editor's Roundtable, News9's Kartikeya explores the question with senior journalists Brijesh Pandey, Sharad Gupta, Raj Kishor & Amod Rai.

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News9's Kartikeya and former Indian ambassador to Beijing, Gautam Bambawale decode the current situation between China & USA on Taiwan

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News9's kartikeya speaks to senior journalists Aditya Raj Kaul, AnindyaBanerjee, Sankhadip, Brijesh Pandey on the ED raids on TMC minister Partha Chatterjee

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News9's Kartikeya discusses with defence experts Let Gen P Ravi Shankar & Let Gen Shokin Chauhan.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to former deputy gov of Central Bank of Sri Lanka W A Wijewardena, political analyst Aruna Kulatunga, economist Anushka Wijesinha, and founding chair of LIRNEasia, Rohan Samarajiva.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to former Goa SEC Prabhakar Timble, political analyst Daniel Francis, and author Sandesh Prabhudesai and Journalist Abhijit Bramhnathkar on the latest crisis gripping Goa Congress.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to Sri Lankan political analyst Aruna Kulatunga, senior journalist Zulfick Farzan and economist Anushka Wijesinha.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to the professor at TISS, Ashwani Kumar, and journalist Sharad Gupta on NDA's president candidate Draupadi Murmu. Is BJP's move an assertion of tribal identity or subaltern Hindutva?

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to defence experts & members of Global Counter Terrorism Council, Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia and Major Gen Ashwani Siwach on the new army recruitment scheme.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to GCTC, Executive Council Member and former DG, J&K Kuldeep Khoda, Ibrahim Wani of Kashmir University, and journalist Aditya Raj Kaul on the current Kashmir situation after the selectively targeted killing of Hindus and how it can be resolved.

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In the third episode of our  series of spaces on 'Can India settle Gyanvapi mosque and Krishna Janambhoomi issues?' News9's Kartikeya speaks to author & professor, Hilal Ahmed.

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In the second episode of our series of spaces on 'Can India settle #GyanvapiMosque and #KrishnaJanambhoomi issues?'  News9's Kartikeya speaks to professor at TISS, Dr. Ashwani Kumar.

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In this inaugural episode of our  series of spaces on 'Can India settle Gyanvapi mosque and Krishna Janambhoomi issues?' News9's Kartikeya speaks to author and RSS National Executive Ram Madhav.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to Sri Lankan political analyst Aruna kulatunga, founding chair of LIRNEasia, Rohan Samarajiva and journalist Suhasini haidar on the turbulence in the island nation.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to writer Sanjay Jha, and journalists Vinod Agnihotri and Shivam Vij in the first of a series of talks on the party’s troubles

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News9's kartikeya speaks to prof Ashwani, Rahul Verma, and Anurag Dhanda on the rise of political consultants and its effect on party dynamics.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to CVoter director, Yashwant Deshmukh, and senior journalists Rasheed Kidwai, Aadesh Rawal and Brijesh Pandey on the Congress party’s Prashant Kishor gambit.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to Sri Lankan economist Anushka Wijesinha and political analyst Aruna Kulatunga on the economic crisis in the island nation.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to senior journalists Ghulam Abbas Shah, Taha Siddiqui and Aditya Raj Kaul on the No Confidence Motion against Imran Khan goverment.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to Lt Gen AK Singh, and Editor of News9 Plus, Sandeep Unnithan.

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News9's kartikeya_1975 discusses the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley with executive editor at TV9, Aditya Raj Kaul and senior journalist Ahmed Ali Fayyaz

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News9's Kartikeya discusses the decline of Congress and the Gandhi dynasty with author and media advisor to former PM Manmohan Singh, Sanjaya Baru, and senior journalists Rasheed Kidwai and  Sheela Bhatt

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Mysterious killing of IC-814 hijacker Zahoor Mistry in Karachi, Pakistan. How was the killing of innocent Indian National Rupin Katyal avenged? Executive Editor Kartikeya discusses the details of the killing with TV9 Executive Editor Aditya Raj Kaul.

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to the defense expert, chairman of the ceasefire monitoring group & military diplomat, Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to the academician, author, historian, and expert on International Relations, Pushpesh Pant

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News9's Kartikeya_1975 speaks to the defense expert, chairman of the ceasefire monitoring group, military diplomat, Lieutenant General Shokin Chauhan on the Russia-Ukraine crisis

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News9's Kartikeya speaks to ex envoy, ambassador to Canada & South Korea and foreign affairs analyst Vishnu Prakash.

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Listen to conversation hosted by News9's Kartikeya Sharma, featuring journalists Kavita Upadhyay, Hridayesh Joshi & researcher, Prof AP Dimri about effects of #ClimateChange in the western Himalayan region

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News9's Kartikeya Sharma will be in conversation with senior journalist Arun Anand and journalist, editor Jaideep Giridhar.

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This week on our Twitter Spaces, we ask our panellists if the recent tumult in JNU, DU and Visva-Bharati is a sign of increased tension between the vice-chancellor, the student body and faculty, and of the Centre’s “growing control” over Indian academic institutions. We are Joined by Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University Mr PC Joshi, and Media academician, Ex-president of JNU student union Mr Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.

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This week’s On Point features a mix of writers from the south, east and north. Listen to the discussion hosted by Kartikeya Sharma, featuring senior journalist Rahul Dev, columnist Sugata Srinivasaraju, writer, editor Yajnaseni Chakraborty and activist Manoranjan Pegu  about the centre’s emphasis on Hindi as a language of transaction and administration.

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In this episode of On Point, we discuss "Why must Indian Muslims answer for global Jihad?"

Listen to the discussion hosted by Kartikeya Sharma featuring Nai Duniya chief editor Shahid Siddiqui, author, columnist 

Shubhrastha, and senior journalist Vinod Sharma

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This week, News9’s Kartikeya Sharma talks to columnist Sudheendra Kulkarni, and author, historian Vikram Sampath about the battle over "Dismantling Global Hindutva"