Big Story: We will try to wrap our heads around the hottest term in tech: Web3.0.

Food for thought: Why Google refuses to pull down what’s essentially a pro-suicide website.(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/09/us/where-the-despairing-log-on.html)

What are we Roasting?1) India nixes a climate change resolution

What are we Toasting?1) The Natural History Museum gets into the Christmas spirit(https://www.instagram.com/p/CXNxgoQqsaP/)

2) Tesla accepts Dogecoin

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Big Story: We will try to wrap our heads around the army operation that went horribly wrong in Nagaland.

Food for thought: Do fitness and body positivity have anything in common?

What are we Roasting?1) The Journal of Universal Rejections

What are we Toasting?1) China's most popular meme: 'tang ping'2) The drunkest country in the world

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Big Story: We discuss the biggest news of the week. The brand new Covid variant—Omicron—that was detected in South Africa.

Food for thought: We’re going to attempt to understand what the hell the Metaverse is and why everyone is jumping on this bandwagon.Quartz on AR/ VR / XR: (https://qz.com/2089665/everything-you-need-to-know-to-understand-the-metaverse/)

What are we Roasting: French furore over a nonbinary pronoun

What are we Toasting:Lessons in scamming by Lucian FreudCough syrups from the good old days

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Food for thought: We will talk about the ‘no stags’ policy that many bars and restaurants follow—across the country. Here we will have with us the amazing author and journalist Sandip Roy joining us with his valuable insight.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mAj2zxFrQg)

Big Story: We look at the Union government’s decision to roll back the farm laws that farmers have been protesting against for almost a year.(https://splainer.in/posts/2021/Autopsy-of-a-Murder)(https://splainer.in/posts/2021/Blinded-By-the-Smoke)

What are we Roasting?Advertisers are trying to 'hack' your dreams

What are we Toasting?Instagram's two new features - Carousel deletion and Rage Shake

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Big Story: In context of the ongoing campaign against selling meat in parts of India, we talk about the convergence of religion, identity, class and money that are at the centre of this campaign.(https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/opinion/bollywood-politics-india-modi.html)

Food for thought: We will be talking about what sets Nykaa apart and what may bring it down.

What are we Roasting?Julia "Hurricane" Hawkins set a record for a 100-meter dash in the 105 plus age category

What are we Toasting?Bewafa chai wala in Patna

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Big Story: We will be looking at India's announcement at the COP26 summit to commit to net zero emissions only by 2070.

Food for thought: We will be talking about the festival of outrage this Diwali season given the sheer number of brands that have been targeted for their ad campaigns.(https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQRb4NIZSH/)

What are we Roasting?1) Bill Gates' big birthday bash2) Facebook goes 'Meta'

What are we Toasting?1) Chinese influencers have found an amusing way to satisfy their wanderlust.(https://twitter.com/giorgiomomurder/status/1452856391803146249?s=20)

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Big Story: In context of Aryan Khan’s arrest we will talk about how the law treats drug consumption both in India and around the world.

Food for thought: We will be talking about the accidental shooting on the sets of the movie ‘Rust’ that killed a cinematographer. We will look at prop guns and the general idea of safety or the lack thereof on film sets.

What are we Roasting?1) A research division headed by Anthony Fauci deliberately infected puppies with parasites.

What are we Toasting?1) The Colombian government has unveiled a new anti-machismo hotline called the ‘Calm Line'2) Even Michelangelo hated his day job

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Big Story: We will look at the state of India’s food security considering we dropped by seven spots to #101 out of 116 countries in the latest Global Hunger Index rankings.

Food for thought: Teenage girls are developing tics thanks to TikTok. We're going to look at how addictive social media algorithms are and whether we can regulate them.

What are we Roasting?1) Deciphering the 'slut' scrawled at the end of the manuscript for John Steinbeck’s epic novel 'The Grapes of Wrath'.

What are we Toasting?1) Banksy's shredded painting finally goes under the hammer.2) The totally shocking winners of the Planeta Literary Awards.

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In today's Big Story we're going to look at the increasing incidents of animal-human conflict in the face of a controversial hunt order for a 13-year-old tiger in Tamil Nadu.

For Food for thought, we discuss China's plans to silence its 'dancing grannies'—the giant groups of middle-aged and older women who gather in public spaces and dance to loud music. We look at how this reflects a generational gap in the country and also at who gets to stake claim over public spaces.

What are we Roasting?1) Dave Chapelle's transphobia2) A conspiracy theory about the Sputnik V vaccine

What are we Toasting?1) UK accepts Covishield2) A little bit of Lakmé's history

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In today's Big Story we make sense of the Pandora papers revelations. Does it make all the people named criminals? Should we tax the rich more? How are countries reacting to this?(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58786291)

In our Food for Thought segment we will talk about the Squid Game phenomenon, of course!(https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/netflix-squid-game-review/)

What are we Roasting:1) People who attended the 2019 Glastonbury festival in the UK did so many drugs that their urine contaminated the nearby river and even endangered aquatic life.2) The hidden crotch of Michelangelo’s David at a Dubai Expo.

What are we Toasting?1) October cover of playboy magazine features male influencer Bretman Rock.2) Marie Antoinette’s secret love letters revealed!

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