Itihaas 2.0

The late 80s have a nation going through a major change where governance takes a back seat, political opportunism is ripe and social fabric is being churned and strained like never before. This episode talks about the elections of 1989 and 1991 and traces these changes.

The first non-congress government, rampant with factions, ego, and opportunism, could not even complete a full term.
This episode discusses the situation in the Janata regime, the 1980 elections and how Indira returned to the power with a thumping majority.

In the middle of the stormy decade, came an unprecedented political move- the emergency from 1975 to 1977. The democracy was almost dead for 19 long months. The 1977 elections, which came after this draconian rule, decimated the Congress for the first time.
In this new episode, we discuss these elections and the complicated background of that one.

The elections of 1971 happened on the backdrop of multiple major sociopolitical churnings. Indira era began a couple of years before that, decimating the political opposition and cementing her position by the victory in 1971 Bangladesh war. Things were not at all cool though. The country was going through turbulent times. In this episode, Ranjeet Rane and Sneha gore Mehendale discuss the 1971 elections, a prologue to the stormy decade.

The fourth general election of 1967 is brought a beginning of a new era. The grand old party in India getting more factionized,clear emergence of a political opposition, and India still surviving as a single country, despite predictions of doom.
Sneha Gore Mehendale converses with Neha Phadke Mahajan about all of it in this episode

Moving to the 1960s, where Congress had completed a decade of power and other sociopolitical factors were playing a role in the electoral politics. importantly, the third election of 1962 also coincides with the Sino-Indian war.
Joining us on the conversation is Parimal Maya Sudhakar explaining the build-up to 1962 elections and aftermath.

That is the name of the system using which India has its election.
It is crucial to understand what it is as it can massively swing elections this way or that way.
Sneha gore Mehendale discusses this important phenomenon with Neha Phadke Mahajan and notes a few interesting statistics of electoral wins and misses due to FPTP.

Did you know that the second general elections of India in 1957 is when the first incident of booth capturing was recorded?!
Listen to this episode that talks about such interesting things along with the backdrop of the 1957 elections and the aftermath.

The implementation of the Mandal commission's report had deep rooted repercussions, especially in the northern India.
What were these effects? Where are we with reference to the issue of caste-based reservations? What does the future hold? Is there any other way of implementing reservations?

Dr.Vikas Pathak offers insights in his conversation with Sneha Gore Mehendale.

1990s remain one of the most turbulent decades of the modern India, and one of the three Ms that caused this turbulence was 'Mandal'. The report of Mandal commission, advocating caste based reservations, specifically, OBC quota in central government jobs and PSUs, was implemented in 1990.
In this episode, Sneha Gore Mehendale and Pradnya Shidore take an overview of 'affirmative action' that India has seen and what exactly is this much controversial term "mandal".