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Latest episodes
May 1, 2025 • 22min
CutTheClutter: India’s security architecture, its evolution since 1962 War & how it differs from Pakistan’s
#cuttheclutter Pakistan has a new National Security Adviser (NSA). In Episode 1652 of #CutTheClutter @ShekharGupta contrasts this with India’s reconstitution of its National Security Advisory Board, involving balanced representation from the armed forces, police, and diplomacy; he also contextualises these developments within broader civil-military relations, offering insights into two sharply divergent security architectures in South Asia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to 'Evolution of national security structures in Pakistan' by Nasir Hafeez https://www.jstor.org/stable/48529365 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to 'The Evolution of India’s National Security Architecture' by P.S. Raghavan: https://idsa.in/system/files/jds/13-3-2019-evolution-of-india-national-security.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced By: Mahira Khan
May 1, 2025 • 11min
ThePrintPod: Any cross-border strike by India faces a potential drawback. It may be seen as underwhelming
The response of Kashmiris has been an outcome that is a true game-changer. The present government has an opportunity to claim ownership over this final and happy chapter.
May 1, 2025 • 6min
ThePrintPod: Retd Bangladeshi major general calls for ‘occupation’ of India’s Northeast if it attacks Pakistan
ALM Fazlur Rahman, who heads the seven-member commission probing the 2009 BDR mutiny, made the comment Tuesday on Facebook amid heightened India-Pakistan tension.
May 1, 2025 • 6min
ThePrintAM: What's behind Centre's caste census announcement?
Apr 30, 2025 • 26min
CutTheClutter: Pakistan's offer of neutral probe into Pahalgam attack is a tool to distract. Think 26/11, Pathankot
#cuttheclutter
Pakistan has offered to cooperate if India were willing to agree to a neutral probe into the Pahalgam terror attack. In Episode 1651 of #CutTheClutter Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at past instances of Islamabad offering cooperation in the aftermath of a terror attack in India, and explains how it might be a strategy to virtue signal and buy time.
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Produced By: Mahira Khan
Apr 30, 2025 • 6min
ThePrintPod: How Trump factor & central bank background led Mark Carney to victory in Canadian elections
The Liberal Party's victory is a remarkable turnaround from a few short months ago when opinion polls guaranteed a total wipeout in favour of the Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre.
Apr 30, 2025 • 4min
ThePrintPod15 years after CWG ‘scam’, why a Delhi court accepted ED’s closure report against Suresh Kalmadi
As original CBI case was closed in 2016, ED noted that no 'scheduled offence' was committed by the accused. Money laundering probe fell flat as predicate offence was absent.
Apr 30, 2025 • 6min
ThePrintPod: IPL expansion will kill Test cricket. Players no longer care about playing for the country
One of the founding philosophies of the BCCI has been to effectively control the game in India. The IPL has dented that control.
Apr 30, 2025 • 6min
ThePrintAM: Why has SC ordered CBI probe into 'Builder-Bank nexus'?
ThePrintAM: Why has SC ordered CBI probe into 'Builder-Bank nexus'?
Apr 29, 2025 • 22min
CutTheClutter: Modi chairs key security meet as India's forces 'spot' Pahalgam attackers,& tech used by LeT in J&K
#cuttheclutter A week since Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives, top level huddles are underway in Delhi to calibrate India’s response. PM Modi chaired a key meeting with the Defence Minister, NSA, CDS & Chiefs of the three Armed Forces on Tuesday. In Kashmir, India’s security forces have reportedly ‘spotted’ terrorists behind the attack. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses the key developments on this big story, with Defence Editor Snehesh Alex Philip, in Episode 1650 of #CutTheClutter. They also discuss how Pakistani terrorists, especially LeT have upped the communication battle in Jammu & Kashmir. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produced By: Mahira Khan
