Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan was forced to resign under sustained public pressure, but BJP leaders continue to celebrate his tenure rather than grapple with the serious concerns raised during the youth movement. The Wire's Jahnavi Sen is joined by Saroj Giri, Associate Professor of Political Science at Delhi University, and Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, to talk about what really ails the education system, what should be done, and why students' voices can't be suppressed.

Violence continues in Manipur, with at least 26 people being killed in the last four months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to take questions from journalists is under scrutiny again. And the Election Commission appears to have quietly changed the rules for new voters trying to enrol. The Wire's Managing Editor is joined by transparency rights activist Amrita Johri and journalists Vrinda Gopinath, Greeshma Kuthar and Helle Lyng.

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The special investigation team put together by the UP government to probe the theft and embezzlement taking place at the Ayodhya has submitted its interim report, which comes with some answers and many questions. Meanwhile Honey Trehan’s film Satluj, earlier named Punjab95, was released on Zee5 only to be pulled down less that 48 hours later. The Wire's Managing Editor Jahnavi Sen is joined by senior journalists Saba Naqvi and Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, The Wire’s special correspondent Akanksha Kumar and film critic Tatsam Mukherjee to discuss all of this.

The passport is the latest document that the government of India has said is not a proof of citizenship even though it is being used to verify voters' citizenship under the SIR of electoral rolls. Over a fortnight after allegations first surfaced, an FIR has been lodged against alleged misappropriation and embezzlement of donations at the Ram mandir in Ayodhya while Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav too is facing the heat of corruption in connection with land deals secured for him and his family. The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by M.K. Venu, founding editor, The Wire and Maya Mirchandani, senior journalist.

It is the season of political defections in India. While a faction of TMC MPs have announced their merger with little known regional party Nationalist Citizens Party of India; 6 Shiv Sena (UBT) MPs are ready to jump ship having missed a parliamentary party meeting on Thursday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met US President Donald Trump in his first face to face meeting in 16 months, raising questions about the cold realities behind the warm meeting. And 110 Days After US-Israel Attacked Iran, Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian have signed initial peace deal, mediated by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Is the BJP engineering defects to manufacture a majority? Will the peace deal hold? The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor, The Wire and Zoya Hasan, professor emerita, Centre for Political Studies, JNU.

India has been directly affected by the US’s attacks on maritime vessels in West Asia this week, with three Indian sailors being killed. The Trinamool Congress has seen multiple splits over the last two weeks. The BJP has won all three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh unopposed after the Congress candidate was disqualified. The Cockroach Janata Party has moved its protest to various cities across the country. And the Delhi high court has quashed the police’s foreign investment case and the ED’s proceedings against Newsclick. Jahnavi Sen is joined by Senior Deputy Editor at The Hindu Sobhana Nair and consulting editor at The Caravan and lecturer at Yale University Sushant Singh to discuss all of this.

The Supreme Court has upheld the Election Commission of India’s power to conduct a special intensive revision of voter rolls, and said that the EC must forward names of people deleted from voter rolls because of doubtful citizenship within four weeks. Meanwhile, students across ages and states have been raising serious concerns over the way examinations are conducted and evaluated, from the CBSE board exam to entrance exams like NEET. Jahnavi Sen discusses these issues with transparency rights activist Anjali Bhardwaj and The Wire's editor Seema Chishti.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's five nation tour just days after he urged Indians to adopt austerity measures including not travelling abroad, has been in the headlines for reasons that have little to do with bilateral relations. Press freedom questions in Norway and the Netherlands, and a reel with Italian PM Georgia Meloni have been the major takeaways amid questions of how the Indian economy is coping in the aftermath of the shocks from the West Asia conflict. Meanwhile at home, Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant's remarks comparing unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites has stirred a controversy, leading the CJI to issue a clarification of sorts. The Wire's senior political correspondent Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty, senior journalist and Ghazala Wahab, author and editor, Force Magazine.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged the citizens of India to adopt some Covid era-like measures in light of the continuing West Asia crisis, including limiting the use of fuel and cooking oil, working from home, avoiding gold purchases and foreign travel, and reducing the usage of chemical fertilisers. Meanwhile across India’s industrial belt, reports of MSMEs freezing production and workers losing their jobs have been coming in. Jahnavi Sen is joined by Dr Himanshu, an economist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and independent researcher and senior journalist Sukumar Muralidharan to discuss these issues.

It has been a week now since the Narendra Modi government’s three-Bill push for delimitation and an expanded Lok Sabha has failed, and it’s also today that the first phase in West Bengal and voting in Tamil Nadu are being held. Meanwhile, a large number of people in Noida have been arrested after the workers' protest, and the police and state government appear keen to mask the whole thing as a law and order issue. The Wire's Jahnavi Sen is joined by senior journalist Sanjay Jha and The Wire's Founding Editor M.K. Venu.