In which situations can judicial intervention help broaden the impact of journalistic work? Sukanya Shantha notes

The JNU professor spoke to The Wire about her latest book, Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South.

The Wire's Jahnavi Sen speaks to senior advocate in the Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde and The Wire's national affairs editor Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty.

The Wire's Jahnavi Sen speaks to documentary filmmaker and Chal Chitra Abhiyan founder Nakul Singh Sawhney and The Wire's Editor Seema Chishti.

In 2014, Narendra Modi referred to the Aadhaar programme as a “political gimmick”. Two years later, his government pushed the Aadhaar Act through parliament. In the last 10 years, while carefully maintaining that it is a “voluntary” programme, his government has slowly but surely ensured that Aadhaar is mandatory in all the ways that matter.

The Wire's Jahnavi Sen speaks to Sushant Singh, Lecturer, Yale University and Consulting Editor, Caravan and Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor, The Wire.

While falsely accusing the Congress of no longer bringing up these two business moguls, the prime minister failed to answer some burning questions on the duo and their relationship with his administration.

The Wire's Jahnavi Sen is joined by senior journalist Sanjay Kumar Jha and The Wire's national affairs editor Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty.

Madhumita Murgia, the AI Editor at Financial Times, explains what she found during her research, focused on the lives of individuals living far away from Silicon Valley.

On this episode of The Wire Wrap, The Wire's Jahnavi Sen is joined by development economist Dipa Sinha and The Wire Hindi's editor Ashutosh Bhardwaj.

The Wire's Jahnavi Sen is joined by Malayala Manorama bureau chief Jomy Thomas and The Wire's founding editor M.K. Venu to discuss recent political developments.

What are the messages the different political parties are out to portray? Will they resonate?

Lawyer Apar Gupta and The Wire editor Seema Chishti discuss the link between the electoral bonds data and Arvind Kejriwal's arrest, as well as the questions around the now-halted Viksit Bharat WhatsApp campaign.

Transparency rights activist Anjali Bhardwaj told The Wire that this discrepancy could be because the State Bank of India has only released data starting from April 12, 2019.

Money that exchanged hands through electoral bonds has already funded two general election cycles and multiple state elections. 

Historian Sudev Sheth in his new book 'Bankrolling Empire' takes a deep dive into several generations of the Jhaveri family, detailing their changing relationship with the Mughal court as the empire slowly started to lose its strength.

What are the implications of these developments as we approach the elections?

"As I understand it, the novelist’s task is to make meaning of the ideas of an epoch through a textual form that is uniquely spacious and versatile. To think of fiction as anything less is to underestimate its potential."

Oscar-winning sound designer Pookutty spoke to The Wire about his directorial debut, the times we live in and his plans for the future.

"When you're translating someone you enter into a relationship with that work that is so intense, that it's almost like a love affair. But for me I think it's kind of like cheating – it's a wild affair that I'm having while I'm married to my own writing."