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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashes out at TMC government; Union Minister Rajnath Singh has appealed to farmers to try the three new farm laws as an "experiment" for a year or two and Tamil superstar Rajinikanth was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad on Friday after severe fluctuations were recorded in his blood pressure.

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Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio, in today's episode, we discuss 'Empire of the Moghul' by Alex Rutherford, 'The Great Unravelling' by Sanjay Jha, 'Durbar' by Tavleen Singh and why Rahul Gandhi should write a book.

We also, dwell into the sky novels, the skill of John le Carré.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi, this is Ahmed Shariff and welcome to DH Radio. Joining me is my colleague L Subramani. Hi sir, welcome to another episode of Read of the week.

L Subramani: Thank you, Ahmed. Wonderful to be here once again to talk about books that we read in the week that went by. So what about you, what book have you read?

Ahmed: In the previous episode, I told you that I would be reading 'Dara Shukoh: The Man Who Would Be King' by Avik Chanda. I haven't started with the book, I diverged a bit in the same direction though. I would like to talk about... This is my suggestion to our listeners, 'Empire of the Moghul' by Alex Rutherford...

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, No night curfew in Karnataka; A Covid-19 positive woman, who recently arrived from the UK was picked up from Rajamahendravaram; The BCCI's governing body ratifies the entry of two new franchises in the IPL to make it a 10-team affair from 2022 and government again invites protesting farmer unions for talks

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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio,  Actor Shakeela talks to DH about her biopic starring Richa Chadda and Pankaj Tripathi.

Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. Some love her, some abhor her, but the fact is you can't ignore her. She is Shakeela.

In today's episode, the actor talks to DH's Nina C George about her biopic, which releases on December 25. Starring Richa Chadda and Pankaj Tripathi, Shakeela is among those films which have braved to have a theatrical release. Listen in to the conversation.

Nina C George: Mam, welcome to DH Radio.

Shakeela: Thank you.

Nina: Mam, you would have seen the snapshots of the film Shakeela, which is releasing on December 25. It's a theatrical release. How did you like it?

Shakeela: It's my biography so I liked it. And I am happy that my movie after a long time is re-starting the theatres.

Nina: We have read your biography, we know a little bit about your life from there. When you watched the snapshots of the film, did it bring back a lot of memories of your heydays when you were active?

Shakeela: It did. Actually, when we did the launch of Shakeela here in Chennai. In Bangalore, we saw in Hindi and Kannada. In Tamil, when I saw. It brought back a lot of memories. And I was so emotionally touched that I even couldn't, after the launch, sit with the press and talk about it...

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah says forging alliance was a tough After leading People’s Alliance for Gupkar Deceleration to victory in DDC elections; Karnataka will impose a state-wide night curfew from 10 pm to 6 am starting Thursday. The curfew will be in effect till 6 am on January 2, 2021, and Scientists said that there could be a chance that a new mutated variant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus has already made its way into Karnataka.

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In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, we look into the graph of the automobile industry through the pandemic, what went wrong and the hope for a better new year.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio. 2020 is hasn't been a star of a year for many and more so for the automobile industry. The pandemic hit it hard. In today's episode, my colleague Vivek Phadnis tells us what went wrong for the automobile industry and its hopes for a better new year.

Listen in

Ahmed: Hi Vivek and welcome to DH Radio. My first question to you is: Before 2020, that is the pre-pandemic era, how was the auto industry like?

Vivek Phadnis: Before the pandemic hit, the auto industry was one of the largest markets in the world. Even before the pandemic hit, the auto industry was going through a slowdown for approximately one and a half years...

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In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, Six passengers from UK test positive for Covid-19 on arrival; The co-founder of BioNTech says that it was "highly likely" that its vaccine against the coronavirus works against the mutated strain; Bharat Biotech says recruitment of volunteers for a late-stage trial of the shot was on track; Cricketer Suresh Raina and some other celebrities were booked for violating Covid-19 norms and Prashant Kishor challenges BJP leaders to say on record that they would quit their positions if the party failed to get 200 seats in West Bengal.

In this episode of The Lead from DH Radio, Programme Director-Water Programme Centre for Science and Environment Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla shares insights about the sewage treatment of water.

Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla: Hello.

In your evening news brief, From The Newsroom, India bans all flights from the UK; The United Kingdom goes back into strict lockdown due to the discovery of the new strain of the Sars-CoV-2 virus; Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan says the government is fully alert and there is no need to panic and Taiwanese contract manufacturer for Apple Inc., Wistron Corp says the recent violence at its facility in Karnataka will not cause significant impact to the company.

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Hi and welcome to the Lead by DH Radio, in today's episode, DH's Sagar Kulkarni speak to author Vinay Sitapati about the latter's latest book "Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi".

Sagar Kulkarni: Why this book Jugalbandi?

Vinay Sitapati: Well I felt that India has changed and Indian politics has changed very rapidly for a lot of people and Modi's India seems so dominant. Really, the argument of the book is that it's taken 100 years to create Narendra Modi. To understand politics, today's changing India and society is a 100-year project that begins in the 1920s.1920s is when Savarkar writes his famous essay 'the essence of Hindutva'...

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