What This Means

'Once a temple, always a temple -- is not a doctrine that only our dharmshashtras speak of, but this doctrine was recognised by the foreign British rule as well and there are examples of it, says Vikas Saraswat.

In this episode:

- What is the solution to stone pelting incidents and violence

- What triggered the violence in Sambhal

- 'Survey was hurried. Why go for every temple?': Why these arguments don't make sense

- Muslim veto in elections on decline?

The only hope for the BJP in Jharkhand was to consolidate non-tribal votes, but they failed in doing so. Political analyst Suyash Jha explains what led to this failure and key takeaways from the state election results in this episode of WTM with Diksha Yadav.

Sivakumar S, in this episode, explains various concerns related to satellite spectrum allocation on What This Means with Diksha.

"While the Waqf narrative is national, it is multifaceted. And its tone, tenor, and form change from region to region."

In this episode, we discuss with Venu Gopal Narayanan and Ananth Krishna Subhalakshmy:

Jaideep Mazumdar explains what Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election means for Bangladesh in this episode of What This Means with DIksha Yadav.

- Why the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government was laying grounds to ban ISKCON in Bangladesh

- Impact of Trump's victory on the Bangladeshi Hindus and other religious minorities 

- Press for early elections in Bangladesh: The best thing Trump and Modi can do right now

- What next for former PM Sheikh Hasina & her party, Awami League 

"I would say that the BJP, SP, and even the BSP have taken the caste equation into consideration in their candidate selection. However, as it seems right now, the BJP has an edge in six seats, while the SP has an edge in three seats of the nine seats up for bypolls," says Amit Yadav in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav.

In this episode:

1. How prepared was Congress... to not fight in the UP bypolls

2. Yogi Adityanath vs Akhilesh Yadav

3. The nine bypoll seats: who has an edge and where

4. BJP: Leaving behind the Lok Sabha setback

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"The major challenge the BJP is currently facing in Jharkhand is consolidating votes from the lower economic classes.

Due to schemes like the Mukhya Mantri Maiya Samman Yojana (which has influenced female voters) and the emergence of a new player in the coal mining belt, Jairam Mahato, the contest has become increasingly close and intense.

So the worry for the BJP is not that it is not gaining on tribal votes. It is that it needs to consolidate the votes of lower economic classes in Jharkhand's non-tribal seats sufficiently to secure victory in the elections," says Suyash Jha in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav.

In this episode, we discuss:

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The 'R&AW (read RAA) ki sajish' narrative never gets old and is back yet again, says Rohit Pathania.

In this episode, we discuss:

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'Those writing Uddhav Thackeray's speech are doing a disservice not to him but to the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray. Balasaheb's legacy is being undermined by the speeches that Uddhav has been delivering that are filled with anti-Hindu rhetoric, whether it was the 'gobar' jibe and now the 'cow's mooing' comment.

'At this point, by making such comments, whose support is Thackeray trying to gain? It is clear to everyone that the Muslim votes Shiv Sena (UBT) received during the Lok Sabha elections were due to its alliance with Congress—those are actually Congress voters', says Varun Singh on the What This Means podcast with Diksha Yadav.

In this episode, we discuss:

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In conversation with Rohit Pathania and Krishna Dange - Can Haryana assembly election results shape Maharashtra elections?

In this episode of 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨, we discuss: