Emigration Is (Not) Bad: Rethinking the Debate

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The Ministry of External Affairs, in a question to the Rajya Sabha, gave a response that over 2 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship in 2024. Since 2022, every year, this is the figure of number of Indians giving up Indian citizenship. The past two to three years in India have seen extensive talk about the number of people moving out and relinquishing their citizenship. People also give a very catchy term for that- "Brain Drain", where intelligent and well-qualified citizens are leaving the country for opportunities elsewhere. Then there is the argument of demographic change, where regions are seeing young people leave for green pastures and old people remain with no one to take care of them. All of them are true and valid points, but there is another side of the debate which we often ignore and miss.  The causes of migration can be broadly categorised as push and pull factors. Only if both of them work together, mass migration usually happen. As we have already discussed m...

Lok Sabha Elections 2024- Issues, Results, Analysis and Impact- A Podcast

Greetings to all listeners and readers!!

The biggest headlines this week have been about Lok Sabha Elections 2024 where the results are out and experts, journalists, psychologists and any random person are giving their own analysis of the same. BJP even though got its tally reduced will form a government with its allies. Unlike the BJP government, we will witness an NDA government. Similarly, INDIA has made massive strides not behind BJP-led NDA with the Congress party not performing as bad as expected. The exit polls went wrong once again which didn't expect the underperformance of the BJP and the overperformance of INDIA. This podcast episode will dive through these topics directly from the expert on all these topics. 


About The Guests

Aswin Shanil

Ashwin Saji George

Thejas Krishna

Disclaimer- All the opinions presented are of the respective speakers in their personal capacity and do not reflect the opinion of the platform or any organisation they represent. 

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Summary of the podcast 

Generally, these topics aren’t much available in the mainstream media, because they are believed hard to crack and don't address the basics. But, through our podcast, we disprove this misconception that these cannot be understood by common people. We explain in simple terms various subtopics under this vast topic in the form of conversational and discussion styles. Everything is easy to follow and understandable in the episode. 

The panel discussion is based on the most recent and the pertaining issue of the Lok Sabha election 2024 season that spanned across three months including the time for campaigning. India, the world's largest democracy led its election this time banking on Modi, his policies and the narrative of aap ki bar 400 par. For the INDIA alliance, it was a referendum on Modi, Democracy, the constitution, caste census, farmers' issue, inflation, secularism and much more. 

The podcast episode will traverse through the narratives, national and local issues, leaders, constituencies, states, numbers and much more. All the guests have put in a lot of time and effort to bring the analysis. 

Before winding up the episode, all panellists extensively talked about the impact on the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 and what we can expect in the upcoming days and beyond. The guests talked about important sources that would be helpful for the audience's reference. This is just a tiny glimpse please listen to get the full picture and how the discussion went. 

We cover in detail the following topics-

  1. Introduction to the topic
  2. Opening Remarks
  3. Understanding Modi 2.0 and Modi ki Guarantee
  4. Kerala's political picture
  5. National issues and politics
  6. Closing remarks
  7. Feedback and conclusion
Where can you find the podcast?

If you are a regular consumer of a podcast you will be very well aware of the various platforms used to hear them. Some platforms allow you to listen without logging in while others require compulsory logging in. 

As you know the most popular app is Spotify. Here is the Spotify frame. 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1on7PSvSHju4WRWN9iGCjG?si=ecdc373fd84b4e68

Also, feel free to listen to previous episodes and follow us there as well.

If you have any preference on where to listen to the podcast, then choose any platform from those given below and listen at your convenience. 

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