India Explained

We discuss a bride backing off a wedding because of the nagin (snake) dance performed by the groom

We discuss the new taxation regime with the kickoff of the Goods and Services Tax

We discuss the curious reaction to the "Not In My Name" citizen protests against lynchings of Muslims by cow vigilantes in India

Car buying in pre-liberalization India, US, and the UK

We look at the BJP boycott of the President's annual Iftar dinner and caste and religious identity calculations in the Indian political scene

A snake bit a man in Bihar and the man bit is wife so she would be with him in the afterlife. We discuss

What the India-Pakistan cricket rivalry tells us about ourselves

We discuss the proposed privatization of Air India and union resistance to the idea

On the government's witch hunt against NDTV and Prannoy Roy

On the Indian obsession with caste and cleanliness