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at Manthan

The Talk Manthan Samvaad 2017, an annual Manthan festival held on Oct 2nd each year is proud to present Mr Nikhil Dey. He talks on Transparency to Accountability referring to his...

The Talk Manthan Samvaad 2017, an annual Manthan festival held on Oct 2nd each year is proud to present Mr Ravish Kumar. His talk, "Gandhi & the dimensions of truth...

The Talk Janwaar Castle is the first skate park in rural India and an award-winning charity project empowering an entire village community through skate boarding and new ways of learning....

The Talk The cyber – libertarian ethos protests any encroachment on its assumed freedom from fetters. The world born free strives hard to retain its freedom from Governments, described as...

The Talk Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharshi have been among the greatest spiritual figures of our country. Their lives and teaching have been a solace to millions. Arun Shourie explored...

The Talk Aadhaar One solution to the many problems of India: leakage, corruption, fakes, duplicates, ghosts, inefficiency, exclusion, tax evasion, black money, crime,  money laundering, terror, illegal migration (hmmm, may...

The Talk The Big Issue After 14 years, Government introduced a new National Health Policy on grounds of a changed context : the rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases, increasing out...

The Talk Manish Gupta, a pioneer in promoting Hindi and Indian languages, spoke about Bollywood's previously unexplored obsession with Hindi-Urdu literature. And how he tapped it to unite greatly divided...

The Talk What is the BJP’s definition of nationalism? Why did the UPA government follow a policy of ‘strategic restraint’? Why is MGNREGA an important instrument in the larger context...

The Talk In democracies stretching from Brazil to Nigeria, criminals routinely thrive at the ballot box. In India, the world’s largest democracy, as many as a third of elected politicians...