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South Central 27 | India-Pakistan tensions, and the theatre of TV news

In Episode 27 of South Central, Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath discuss the India–Pakistan ceasefire following Operation Sindoor and examine the role of the media during military escalation. They speak with defence expert Sushant Singh and senior journalist Prem Panicker. Once…

From The Marginlands Ep 6 Ft. Yuvan Aves

In this episode, Arati and Prem dive into the heart of Bangalore’s flood crisis and the intricate dance between humanity and nature. We unpack the city’s recent flooding woes, echoing themes from our previous conversation with S Vishwanath on urban planning and his six pillars of water conservation…

From The Marginlands Episode 7: Shipwreck off Kerala Coast

On May 23, 2025, the MSC Elsa 3, a 28-year-old container ship, left Vizhinjam Port for Kochi, carrying 640 containers—13 of them packed with hazardous cargo, including calcium carbide, a chemical that can ignite with a spark. Less than 24 hours later, 38 nautical miles off Kerala’s coast, it sent o…

From The Marginlands: Ep 8: The State Of India's Environment

In this episode, Prem Panicker and Arati Kumar-Rao discuss significant updates regarding environmental incidents off the coast of Kerala. The conversation then turns to The State Of India's Environment through Figures, a study released by the Center for Science & Environment (CSE) on June 5, 2025. …

What is life like in the Sundarbans? Annu Jalais Weighs In

In the second episode of Season 2 of From the Marginlands, Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker speak with environmental social anthropologist Annu Jalais, whose 27+ years of research in the Sundarbans reveals a world far more complex than standard conservation narratives. We explore human–tiger coexi…

If A City Forgets Itself, What Lies Ahead? We Ask Harini Nagendra

n this episode of From The Marginlands, Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker speak with ecologist and writer Harini Nagendra about the lost ecological memory of Bengaluru — a city once shaped by lakes, wetlands, trees and commons that sustained both biodiversity and community life.Drawing on decades o…

Why Care About the Environment? (When People Are Being Killed) -- Mahesh Rangarajan

A young person once asked: why care about nature when people are dying in Gaza? Environmental historian Mahesh Rangarajan gives the long answer — why the choice between people and the planet was always false.In previous episodes of this podcast, our guests have talked to us about particular rivers,…

What Are The Real Risks To Our Health? We Ask Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Most people in health pick a lane — clinician, researcher, or policymaker. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan has been all three for forty years: a paediatrician who became a leading TB and HIV researcher, then the WHO's first-ever Chief Scientist, steering global science through COVID. She now chairs the M.S.…

When Rains Fail, What Should The City Do? Vishwanath Suggests ...

The 2026 monsoon is failing, the Cauvery catchment is running dry, and the reservoirs feeding Bengaluru are alarmingly low. So Arati Kumar-Rao and Prem Panicker call back the one person who can tell us what it means: S. Vishwanath, who first argued on Season 1 of this show that the city's water cri…

When The Fever Map Changes & Cures Stop Working: Talking Health & Climate with Ramanan Laxminarayan

In this episode we talk to epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan about what ails India's health. He makes the case that the biggest threat is the silent spread of noncommunicable disease, and that India is good at health events, but weak at the unglamorous, sustained work of public health. The conver…