Distilled, a Firstpost podcast: Recent Episodes
Distilled, a Firstpost Podcast
Distilled is a new podcast series from Firstpost, which introduces us to innovative, cutting-edge thinking about our world, and the issues it confronts, through conversations with some of the most highly-regarded experts in India and the world. In each episode, Network18 Group Consulting Editor Praveen Swami will be discuss subjects ranging from geopolitics to culture and sport—trying to unpack the unpredictable, ever-changing forces that are shaping our times.
In the latest episode of the Distilled podcast, Praveen Swami discusses India’s grim politics of crime and punishment with historian and philosopher Dilip Simeon.
In this Distilled conversation, Praveen Swami speaks to Dr Ayesha Siddiqa, one of the foremost authorities on the Pakistan Army, and author of Military Inc, a path-breaking work on its business holdings and interests, on the unprecedented confrontation between the country's Supreme Court and the government.
In this first Distilled conversation, Praveen Swami speaks to Oxford University scholar Maya Tudor, author of the highly regarded book The Promise of Power: the Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan, on nations and the great tide of nationalism sweeping the planet.