We The People

On the campaign trail in Jammu and Kashmir, We The People broadcasts from Srinagar. We debate: will these Assembly elections make a homecoming possible for Kashmiri Pandits? Is their rehabilitation just a political slogan? And will Pandit groups' demand of separate enclaves ensure the safety of Kashmiri Pandits or promote ghettoization?

On this special edition of We The People from Srinagar, we ask: will the Assembly elections script a new chapter? Are these elections of hope or hype? Can they heal the wounds of the Kashmir valley? Voices of all three regions - Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir - join the debate. What are their expectations from these elections? And what's the political messaging of the high voter turnout?

In this episode of We The People, we debate the proposal made by the head of the women's panel on legalising sex trade. India's laws on sex trade punish the pimp and the man soliciting but not the woman. Do they need more decriminalisation? A report estimates that India has 20 million sex workers; 16 million of them sold into the sex trade. Would legalising trade empower them?

India has more women who rely on sterilisation to prevent pregnancy than any other country. On this episode of We The People, we ask: why should the burden of family planning fall on women alone and whether the policy of providing financial incentives for sterilisation needs to be scrapped.

In this episode of 'We The People', Sonakshi Sinha takes on detractors and refuses "to look like a skeleton" - We debate whether the pressure to conform to a certain idea of body type or body image is driving women to anorexia.

In this episode of We The People, we explore the mind of the Muslim voter and what the debut of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) in the recently concluded Maharashtra assembly elections tells us about the failure of mainstream parties in giving assurance to the minority community. Is a 'Muslim' party really what the community needs?

In this episode of We the People, we debate: Invoking Gandhi, is it only symbolic or substantive and whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi, by appropriating for 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, revives a discarded political brand? We ask if history has become a battleground for politics?

Often described as one of the greatest and most talented actors of the theater world, Naseeruddin Shah is a man who has both lived and worked on his own terms. Known to never mince his words, he has now taken his embrace of honesty many steps further with a searingly candid autobiography 'And Then One Day'. In this book Naseeruddin Shah tells his own story, not only the story of how he became an actor but many other stories that are deeply personal to him. On We The People, a freewheeling conversation with one of the most formidable actors of Hindi cinema, Naseeruddin Shah.

On We The People, we debate: Can global 'jihad' network entangle Indian Muslims? Is the threat of homegrown 'jihadis' real or media stereotype? And does political correctness stop an honest debate on radicalization?

On We The People, we debate, why has the fringe phrase 'love jihad' entered mainstream politics? Why is inter-faith love, which should be a celebration of diversity, being dubbed as a conspiracy? Is 'love jihad' the BJP's new poll polariser in Uttar Pradesh? Is it a product of myth-making or real concerns? Shooter Tara Sahdev's brother joins the show to talk about his sister's allegations that she was tortured to convert to Islam after her marriage.