Podcasts about salil tripathi

The international architecture that underpins universal human rights is under attack. What does this mean for responsible business? IHRB's Salil Tripathi, speaks to Kenneth Roth, author, attorney and the former head of international organisation, Human Rights Watch. Ken and Salil discuss progress in corporate responsibility and accountability in recent decades, and what this might mean for the future of business and human rights.

In this episode with Salil Tripathi, Part 2, joining Amit Dosh for a Global Politics discussion on how the US and China dominate global power dynamics, Tripathi ties these themes into India’s struggle with free speech and rising religious nationalism, as explored in his book Offence: The Hindu Case. Tripathi underscores the erosion of India’s secular ideals, urging a return to pluralism and robust legal safeguards for artistic freedom against politicized censorship. This analysis serves as a timely warning against the dangers of religious extremism and the state’s complicity in undermining democratic values.Elon Musk & Donald Trump are dominating the US vs China game. How India with Modi is making a path for global image. Are we paving the way for future? Find out in the episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Salil Tripathi is a distinguished writer, journalist, and policy adviser with extensive expertise in human rights, corporate accountability, and business ethics. With a career spanning decades, he has worked with organizations like Amnesty International and International Alert, conducting research on human rights abuses, conflict zones, and corporate complicity. Currently, he focuses on themes such as discrimination, technology, and the protection of human rights defenders, while also curating a course on business and human rights at the University of Bergen. A Senior Associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Salil is also an award-winning journalist and author of several non-fiction works. His latest book, The Gujaratis, offers a profound exploration of the Gujarati community, blending historical scholarship, original research, and personal insights to unravel the cultural, social, and economic fabric of this industrious and influential group. Based in New York, Salil continues to advocate for human rights and positive change through his writings, podcasts, and academic engagements.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IHRB's CEO, John Morrison, sits down with three colleagues, Salil Tripathi, Francesca Fairbairn, and Haley St. Dennis, to discuss a wide range of topics, from the backlash to DEI, to the value of international norms and standards, to how a second Trump term could impact just transitions.

He's lived a rich life as a journalist, a human rights activist, an author, a columnist -- and now he's written a great book on Gujaratis. Salil Tripathi joins Amit Varma in episode 409 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his learnings, these times we live in -- and the times that came before. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Salil Tripathi on Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Amazon. 2. The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community -- Salil Tripathi. 3. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent -- Salil Tripathi. 4. Offence – The Hindu Case -- Salil Tripathi. 5. Detours: Songs of the Open Road -- Salil Tripathi. 6. For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit -- Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi. 7. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 8. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 9. Saraswatichandra (Gujarati) (English) -- Govardhanram Tripathi. 10. Gujarat Ni Asmita -- KM Munshi. 11. I Follow the Mahatma -- KM Munshi. 12. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us — Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen. 13. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization — Devdutt Pattanaik. 14. Until the Lions -- Karthika Nair. 15. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai. 16. The Forces That Shaped Hinduism -- Episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai). 17. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain -- Fintan O'Toole. 18. Understanding Gandhi: Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 19. Understanding Gandhi: Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 20. Gandhi Before India -- Ramachandra Guha. 21. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything. 22. The Diary of Manu Gandhi (Part 1) (Part 2) -- Edited and Translated by Tridip Suhrud. 23. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila). 24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma. 25. Akhil Katyal's poem on caste. 26. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie. 27. Bare Feet – a Poem about MF Husain -- Salil Tripathi. 28. My Mother's Fault -- Salil Tripathi. 29. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 30. Yashwant Rao -- Arun Kolatkar. 31. The Patriot -- Nissim Ezekiel. 32. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne -- Satyajit Ray. 33. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen. 34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Ved Mehta and John McPhee on Amazon. 35. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia. 36. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator — Episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen. 37. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder. 38. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen. 39. Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists -- Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales. 40. Check out Johan Norberg's great work. 41. The Life and Times of the Indian Economy — Episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta). 42. India's Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma. 43. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs — Episode 46 of Everything is Everything. 44. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt. 45. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis. 46. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: He's alive! 47. Amit Varma's 2022 piece on the mess-up at The Wire. 48. Television Price Controls — Episode 27 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashok Malik). 49. The Selfish Altruist -- Tony Vaux. 50. Sadanand Dhume's tweet on the hypocrisy around The Satanic Verses. 51. Bad Elements -- Ian Buruma. 52. Biju Rao Won't Bow to Conventional Wisdom — Episode 392 of The Seen and the Unseen. 53. Can Economics Become More Reflexive? — Vijayendra Rao. 54. The Life and Times of Teesta Setalvad — Episode 302 of The Seen and the Unseen. 55. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope — Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen. 56. The Wal-Mart Effect -- Charles Fishman. 57. Modern South India -- Rajmohan Gandhi. 58. The Adda at the End of the Universe — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas). 59. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander. 60. Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat -- Narmad. 61. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything. 62. Where the Green Ants Dream -- Werner Herzog. 63. People's Linguistic Survey of India -- GN Devy and others. 64. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 65. Stage.in. 66. Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Azar Nafisi. 67. Two Concepts of Liberty — Isaiah Berlin. 68. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything. 69. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 70. Shruti Rajagopalan's talk on the many amendments in our constitution. 71. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra. 72. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 73. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 74. Goodbye Solo — Ramin Bahrani. 75. The desire to help, and the desire not to be helped — Roger Ebert's review of Goodbye Solo. 76. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada -- Shahu Patole. 77. Firaaq -- Nandita Das. 78. How the BJP Wins — Prashant Jha. 79. The BJP's Magic Formula — Episode 45 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prashant Jha). 80. The Year of Living Dangerously -- Peter Weir. 81. Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Francois Truffaut and Aparna Sen. 82. The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and London Review of Books. 83. Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain and Vilayat Khan on Spotify. 84. Nadine Gordiner, Fintan O'Toole, Ilya Kaminsky, Karthika Nair, Ruchir Joshi, Kiran Desai, Nilanjana Roy, Sunil Gavaskar and Mike Brearley. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Asmita' by Simahina.

40 years since the Bhopal gas disasters, which killed thousands and injured millions more, what have been the lessons for corporate accountability? IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks to survivor, Tahira Sultan, as well as Dr Usha Ramanathan,  a human rights and legal scholar who has studied and worked on the Bhopal case extensively.

David Schilling from the Interfaith Centre on Corporate Responsibility discusses the history and evolution of ESG with author and ESG expert Vasuki Shastry and IHRB's Salil Tripathi. They discuss the role of ethical investors; the current backlash to ESG and the importance of regulatory frameworks in promoting responsible business practices.

When a state announces snap military conscription, how might companies respond to protect its employees?In this episode, IHRB's Salil Tripathi and Vicky Bowman, explore the delicate balance companies must strike between compliance and resistance, and the creative strategies employed to protect their workforce. Salil is also joined by Nabi Abdullaev from Control Risks, a risk management consultant covering Russia.

2024 is a record year for elections. Across the globe nearly four billion people will be heading to the polls -  half the world's population.In the digital age, misinformation and disinformation can spread easily, with big implications for human rights. How can social media companies protect truth and mitigate these risks?To answer this question, IHRB's Salil Tripathi sits down with Priyanka Motaparthy, Director of the Armed Conflict, Counterterrorism, and Human Rights Project at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, and Iain Levine, director on the human rights policy team at Meta.In this episode our guests discuss the importance of free speech, what constitutes hate speech, the difference between misinformation and disinformation, and the serious repercussions for elections in an era of ‘fake news', and what social media companies are doing to counter these issues.

What is the phenomenon of ‘decoupling' and how is it affecting human rights and business? IHRB's Salil Tripathi, along with guests Vasuki Shastry and Isabel Hilton, unpack what ‘decoupling' is, whether it's just hot air, how it's more than an economic phenomenon, and why human rights practitioners should pay close attention.

IANR 2337 091623 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Sridhar Kotha in for Jawahar Malhotra) Here's the guest line-up for Sat, September 16, 2023 from 4 to 6pm  CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app (www.masalaradio.com)   By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indo-american-news-radio-houston-tx/id1512586620) Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. We have 4 years of Podcasts and have had over 7,500 hits. SUPPORT THE SHOW!! TO RECEIVE NEW PODCASTS, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR SPOTIFY AND GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING. THAT WILL GET US HIGHER AD CLICKS!! 4:20 pm Our regular monthly guest, well-known immigration attorney George Willy joins us today to talk about his upcoming meeting on September 24 with Congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat who since 2017 has represented the 17th Californian District that encompasses a large part of Silicon Valley. George welcomes listeners to call in with questions to pose Khanna, or email us at indoamericanews@yahoo.com. George will describe what his meeting will cover as well as travel privileges for U visa holders.   5:00 pm The Jaipur Literature Festival has returned to Houston this weekend, September 15 through 17 at has been held at five venues across the city and features many writers - like Houstonian Chitra Divakaruni, Parini Shroff, Salil Tripathi, film maker Mira Nair and journalist and writer Anjan Sundaram who called into our show last Saturday - and panel discussions. One of those featured is physicist and writer Priyamvada Natarajan who is calling in from a venue to talk about her work as well as about the significance of the Festival which will conclude tomorrow.   5:20 pm Hindu Sangatan Divas was held at the recently inaugurated Sringeri Matha Temple in Richmond, with 125 participants from the Houston area to discuss Hindu unity in holding events and developing interest in Hindu religion and culture. Viren Vyas and Vivek Singh with the Hindu Swayam Sangh of Houston will join us to explain what transpired and future plans for the community. TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 70,000+ hits to track all current stories. And remember to visit our digital archives from over 15 years. Plus, our entire 42 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/indo-american-news-radio/support

IANR 2336 090923 Line Up 4-6pm INTERVIEWS (Guest host Sridhar Kotha in for Pramod Kulkarni) Here's the guest line-up for Sat, September 9, 2023 from 4 to 6pm  CST on Indo American News Radio (www.IndoAmerican-news.com), a production of Indo American News. We are on 98.7 FM and you can also listen on the masalaradio app (www.masalaradio.com)   By Monday, hear the recorded show on Podcast uploaded on Spotify, Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indo-american-news-radio-houston-tx/id1512586620) Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public and Breaker. We have 4 years of Podcasts and have had over 7,500 hits. SUPPORT THE SHOW!! TO RECEIVE NEW PODCASTS, SELECT FOLLOW ON OUR SPOTIFY AND GIVE US A 5 STAR RATING. THAT WILL GET US HIGHER AD CLICKS!! 4:20 pm Animal protection and control and making sure there are facilities for their care, like the BARC parks, as well as encouraging pet adoptions is a big task in a city as large as Houston. Taking care of strays, promoting neutering drives and getting donations for those pets which are sheltered amounts to a huge effort by the Houston Animal Shelter and Adoption Center. We will talk with Cory Stottlemyer, who is a Deputy Shelter Director at the Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) Houston Animal Shelter and Adoption Center and Director of Communications for Administration and Regulatory Affairs. He explains the magnitude of animal control in the Bayou City. 4:50 pm We turn to an animal lover who single-handedly has taken in stray dogs, often nurturing them to health, and placing them in caring homes. Ramesh Anand has become known among Desis for his dedication to caring for strays and the non-profit that he created for this effort. He has been on our show before and we're delighted that he is joining us again to tell us of his ongoing lone-man efforts in Sugar Land.   5:10 pm You are never too young to love and care for animals and Yuvaanh Agarwal, a fifth grader in Houston, exemplifies that with his advocacy and music therapy for animals. Each week, Yuvi goes to local shelters in Houston – Houston Pets Alive! and Citizens for Animal Protection - to play the keyboard for the animals in their care. He recently launched Wild Tunes, music therapy for animals. He's been featured in local and national media, including Good Morning America! and USA Today for his innovative program. He joins us with his mom Priyanka to explain how this therapy works on animals. 5:30 pm The Jaipur Literature Festival will return to Houston next weekend, September 15 through 17 at five venues across the city and will feature many writers - like Houstonian Chitra Divakaruni, Parini Shroff, Salil Tripathi, Priyamvada Natarajan and film maker Mira Nair - and panel discussions. One of those featured is journalist and writer Anjan Sundaram who is calling in from Mexico City to talk about his work as well as about the significance of the Festival. TO BE FEATURED ON THE SHOW, OR TO ADVERTISE, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 713-789-6397 or at indoamericannews@yahoo.com Please pick up the print edition of Indo American News which is available all across town at grocery stores. Also visit our website indoamerican-news.com which gets 70,000+ hits to track all current stories. And remember to visit our digital archives from over 15 years. Plus, our entire 42 years of hard copy archives are available in the Fondren Library at Rice University. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/indo-american-news-radio/support

In this episode of Voices, you'll meet Mark Taylor, an expert in human rights and business, and senior program manager with the Clooney Foundation of Justice's Docket Initiative. Mark talks with IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the risk of corporate complicity when operating in zones of conflict, as well as the need for greater company transparency, and more investigative power for civil society to hold complicit companies to account.

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition? Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.  In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat. South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten democracy and the health and longevity of states. The politics of hate in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is fuelling, and feeds off, religious majoritarianism. Nirmal Ghosh hosts Farahnaz Ispahani, a former journalist, former member of Pakistan's parliament, and currently a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington DC, and Salil Tripathi, author, journalist and member of the Board of PEN International.   Highlights (click/tap above): 1:40 Why Pakistan is the worst among "religious majoritarian states" in South Asia; add to that a "nuclear-armed Pakistan with an economy in free fall" 3:40 On the history and similar trajectory in Bangladesh and also, how "the liberal Pakistani used to look up to India for its democratic roots and tradition, when now… if you're Muslim, you can't be safe in India." 9:05 How the religious right and the political right have come together to make the majority feel they're under threat from the minority 12:16 How this trend is happening, as our guest expert offers daily life examples in India 17:15 On how the media in these South Asia countries could amplify divisions Produced by: Nirmal Ghosh (nirmal@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis, Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Edited by: Hadyu Rahim and Fa'izah Sani Follow Asian Insider with Nirmal Ghosh every fourth Friday of the month: Channel: https://str.sg/JWa7 Apple Podcasts: https://str.sg/JWa8 Google Podcasts: https://str.sg/wQsB  Spotify: https://str.sg/JWaX SPH Awedio app: https://www.awedio.sg/ Website: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Follow Nirmal Ghosh on Twitter: https://str.sg/JD7r Read Nirmal Ghosh's stories: https://str.sg/JbxG Register for Asian Insider newsletter: https://str.sg/stnewsletters Asian Insider videos: https://str.sg/wdcC --- Discover more ST podcast channels: In Your Opinion: https://str.sg/w7Qt Asian Insider: https://str.sg/JWa7 Health Check: https://str.sg/JWaN Green Pulse: https://str.sg/JWaf Your Money & Career: https://str.sg/wB2m ST Sports Talk: https://str.sg/JWRE #PopVultures: https://str.sg/JWad Music Lab: https://str.sg/w9TX Discover ST Podcasts: http://str.sg/stpodcasts Discover BT Podcasts: https://bt.sg/pcPL --- Special edition series: True Crimes Of Asia (new): https://str.sg/i44T The Unsolved Mysteries of South-east Asia (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuZ2 Invisible Asia (9 eps): https://str.sg/wuZn Stop Scams (10 eps): https://str.sg/wuZB Singapore's War On Covid (5 eps): https://str.sg/wuJa --- Follow our shows then, if you like short, practical podcasts! #STAsianInsiderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

India has long been considered the largest democracy in the world.  But India's constitution is struggling against the test of time. Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads the BJP, a right-wing, Hindu-majority government, and today, there are growing concerns about the direction of India's democracy. Recently, two BJP party leaders made anti-Islamic comments, sparking protests, and clashes between Muslims and Hindus. Hundreds of Muslims were arrested and the homes of Muslim activists and protestors were reportedly demolished. Some prominent voices in India say that India's democracy has been damaged beyond repair, and worry that the country is becoming a Hindu-nationalist state. In May, ten human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, condemned India for targeting and prosecuting journalists and government critics, particularly Muslim journalists.  We speak with Indian-Muslim journalist Rana Ayyub, who has been subjected to harassment and detainment, and Indian-born journalist and writer Salil Tripathi about how India has gotten to this moment.

We now get food and groceries delivered within 15 minutes of ordering them on mobile applications. But have you wondered what it takes to accomplish such a feat? What the delivery executive goes through in between picking the order from the restaurant or warehouse and handing it over to you?  One of them, Salil Tripathi, lost his life eight days ago on a cold winter night, while his wife and a minor son waited for him back home. Salil was the sole breadwinner of his family. And so are lakhs of others who continue to walk a tightrope without any insurance and other social security benefits which workers in organised sectors enjoy. When Salil's accidental death attracted the media glare, Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal took to Twitter and assured help in processing an insurance payout of Rs 10 lakh. Zomato employees contributed Rs 12 lakh to the family and a fundraising page started by his wife raised about Rs 9 lakh. While Zomato's move came as a welcome step, this instance has emphasised the need to provide social security benefits to gig and platform workers. Gig workers currently depend on the generosity of companies. In the absence of a legislation that grants protections to gig workers, the companies employing them  don't have a uniform policy on the kind of insurance cover they should provide to their drivers or delivery partners in cases of accidents or medical emergencies. Zomato covers its delivery partners with accident and life insurance along with an OPD allowance, whereas Swiggy offers Rs 6 lakh worth of medical and accident insurance cover. However, Shaik Salauddin, the national-general secretary of the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) told Business Standard that there have been several instances where Zomato and Swiggy haven't done enough to compensate their delivery partners for ‘loss of pay' after they met with an accident while on the job. The IFAT represents gig workers employed by food delivery and taxi apps.  The recent Fairwork India report 2021 ranked Indian startups based on how they treat their gig workers. It said that most Indian startups don't score well when judged against the principle of ‘Fair Conditions'. To address this issue and many more, the Central government has come up with the Code on Social Security which recognises gig and platform workers. But according to reports, the Centre is unlikely to implement it before state elections in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab this year, as it is worried about the possibility of protests by labour unions, after having had a similar experience with the three contentious farm laws that had to be withdrawn.  The Supreme Court too has admitted a petition by the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) that seeks classification of gig and platform workers as ‘unorganised workers' under the Unorganised Workers Act, 2008. This would entitle them to benefits such as provident fund, health and maternity benefits and old age protection. “This is obviously an attempt to distance itself from any language that would make the aggregator responsible for providing the drivers with social security or any form of protection or acknowledging any form of ‘employer-employee' relationship,”  reads the IFAT petition. The IFAT's petition points out that recently, two large cab aggregators ‘updated' the service agreements for their riders and drivers to “essentially absolve the ride sharing/ hailing company (the aggregator) of all liabilities and/or responsibilities towards the drivers or riders”. One of the aggregators, for instance, has stopped using the word ‘partner' in the agreement and now defines individuals utilising its app service for commercial gains as ‘customers'. Gayatri Singh, cofounder of Human Rights Law Network and the advocate who filed the PIL on behalf of IFAT, explained why the present working arrangements between gig workers and platforms is untenabl

Pandemic cut his bright career short. Salil Tripathi had to quit as the manager of an upmarket restaurant in the heart of Delhi in 2020 after it ran into losses. And on January 9, a rashly driven SUV cut his young life short. Tripathi, just 36 and a delivery executive with Zomato now, was waiting for an order before making another dash. News reports of his tragic death brought some succour to his family. But, in a way, it also highlighted the condition of lakhs of gig workers who continue to work amid little or no access to social security.  Amid the ongoing uncertainty, Business Standard's Bhaswar Kumar spoke to Dr K Srinath Reddy, president of Public Health Foundation of India to know his views about how the third wave is likely to play out and whether it will be different from the previous disastrous waves that India had witnessed. After the pandemic and the havoc it has caused, let us move on to markets. After a long bout of selling, foreign portfolio investors are back on Dalal Street. Moreover, India remains among the top five emerging market economies that have seen renewed FPI interest. While some see this as bargain buying, others believe sustenance of these inflows holds the key for a firm market rally. Just like the companies, the government too needs money. So what does it do when it requires funds to meet its current obligations, in excess of its annual revenue generation? Well, it issues Treasury Bills or T-Bills. Find our about T-Bills and more in this episode of the podcast.  Watch video

Experts agree that the symptoms induced by the Omicron variant appear to be milder than the previous ones. But this is prompting many to take this current wave of Covid-19 rather lightly. In fact many are even thinking that it won't be that bad an idea for them to be infected by Omicron right now.In this episode, Indian Express' Amitabh Sinha joins host Shashank Bhargava to break down why you shouldn't take the current wave lightly, and why you shouldn't catch Omicron just to ‘get it over with'.Also in the end, Indian Express' Jignasa Sinha tells us the tragic story of Salil Tripathi that has come to resonate with a lot of people.

Supreme Court lawyer Sara Hossain and academic Dr. Faraha Nawaz talk about their homeland Bangladesh – one of the world's most crowded countries. Bangladesh has been going through remarkable developments since the 1990s. Millions have been pulled out of poverty, the garment industry has flourished, and before the pandemic, economic growth exceeded 7% for four years in a row, outpacing not just Pakistan and India, but even China. This development is, however, contrasted with a complicated political and human rights situation and an erosion of democratic institutions, as our speakers point out.3:03 Background information on Bangladesh5:38 Sara and Faraha's views on Bangladesh, and where it stands today 11:10 The incredible development the country has undergone since the 1990s15:02 About women in Bangladesh and some national politics, which also have been shaped mainly by women in recent years29:38 Sara and Faraha's recommendations on places to visit and food to try in BangladeshYour host: Denise Staubli, Program Manager, Asia Society Switzerland Moderator: Nico Luchsinger, Executive Director, Asia Society Switzerland Speakers: Sara Hossain, Barrister at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, Partner at the law firm of Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates, pro bono Honorary Executive Director of the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services TrustDr. Faraha Nawaz, Associate Professor at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh Production: Denise StaubliShow NotesNational Fish Hilsa Roadside snacks, such as SingaraCox's Bazar – the longest sea beach in the worldSaint Martin IslandHilly areas in the Rangamati and Bandarban districtsBangladesh's many and large rivers amongst the biggest in the world, such as the Brahmaputra Leading newspapers in English, such as the Daily Prothom aloThe Colonel Who Would Not Repent, by Salil Tripathi about the Bangladeshi warBooks written by Shaheen Akhtar, who has won numerous awards for her fiction about Bangladesh's history and women's experienceMicrofinance and Women's Empowerment in Bangladesh by Dr. Faraha Nawaz, 2019Confronting Constitutional Curtailments: Attempts to Rebuild Independence of the Judiciary in Bangladesh by Sara Hossain, in Paul Brass (ed) Handbook of Politics in South Asia, Routledge, 2010Rohingya Refugee Women and Girls: Remedies and Responses to Sexual and Gender based Violence in Bangladesh by Sara Hossain and Sajeda Amin, in Imtiaz Ahmed (ed) The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Towards Sustainable Solutions, Dhaka, 2019  Asia Society Switzerland webcast A Closer Look at Bangladesh with Dr. Faraha Nawaz and Sara Hossain, June 17, 2021

Meet the AuthorsNancy Reyes MullinsIndependent researcherSalil TripathiSenior Adviser, Global IssuesInstitute for Human Rights and BusinessSanchita Banerjee SaxenaDirectorSubir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh StudiesUniversity of California, Berkeley Read the AsiaGlobal Online article: https://www.asiaglobalonline.hku.hk/most-vulnerable-pandemics-impact-bangladeshs-garment-workersSubscribe to our podcast: https://agi.buzzsprout.comFollow us onFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsiaGlobalInstitute/Twitter: https://twitter.com/AsiaGInstituteLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2473796/YouTube: https://bit.ly/agi-yt-subscribe

In this episode, Shruti talks with Salil Tripathi about Bangladesh's economic prosperity, cultural similarities and differences with India, religious and linguistic identity, and about what India can learn from Bangaladesh on its 50th anniversary. Tripathi is an Indian journalist, author and editor, currently the chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. and he is the Senior Advisor on Global Issues at the Institute for Human Rights and Business. He is the author of “Offence: The Hindu Case,” “Detours: Songs of the Open Road” and “The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.” Follow Salil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/saliltripathi  Follow Shruti on Twitter: https://twitter.com/srajagopalan Learn more about the 1991 Project: https://the1991project.com  For a full transcript of this conversation with helpful links, please visit DiscourseMagazine.com.

You can find Sadanand’s writing for the Wall Street Journal here: https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sadanand-dhume Specifically on “Love Jihad”: https://www.wsj.com/articles/hindu-nationalists-crazy-crackdown-on-love-jihad-11606349657 Sadanand’s work at the American Enterprise Institute: https://www.aei.org/profile/sadanand-dhume/ For more from Sadanand on Hindu ethnonationalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RawnTNec6Nc The Grand Tamasha podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxp8lyhZjcI&list=PL19Wqzt3FqEUvI2mEQVRngisQMecIfoGf Sadanand’s book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/My-Friend-the-Fanatic/Sadanand-Dhume/9781634504218 Follow Sadanand on Twitter: @dhume Further References Some of my sources of Indian news, as promised: The Hindu: Breaking News, India News, Sports News and Live Updates: https://www.thehindu.com/ The Quint: https://www.thequint.com/ Scroll.in: https://scroll.in/ The Caravan (caravanmagazine.in): https://caravanmagazine.in/ The Quilliam Circle: https://www.quilliaminternational.com/circle/ Maajid Nawaz, Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism (2012) Shashi Tharoor, Why I Am a Hindu (2018) My interview with Salil Tripathi: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/44-salil-tripathi-journalistic-integrity My interview with Armin Navabi: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/episode-028-armin-navabi-the-battle-for-iran For more on the “sexy Kali” controversy: https://atheistrepublic.libsyn.com/indians-respond-to-sexy-hindu-goddess-kali-part-1 and https://www.youtube.com/c/AtheistRepublic/search?query=sexy%20kali My article on the Indian project: https://areomagazine.com/2019/08/15/on-being-a-proud-indian/ Timestamps 2:04 The so-called “Love Jihad” laws, fears of conversion, Indian paternalism 16:01 Interfaith marriages in India 8:30 Attitudes towards Christian converts 24:32 Problems within the Indian Muslim community. 30:43 Indian secularism at the time of Independence 37:57 The various anxieties about Islamic radicalism that helped fuel the rise of Hindu nationalism 39:11 Double standards in Indian law 41:26 India’s electoral system, group mobilisation and the abandonment of secularism on the part of the Hindu nationalists 45:18 Muslim personal law, the Hajj subsidy 49:18 Hindu religious radicalism 58:00 The chilling effect on speech 01:00:33 Indian law and freedom of speech 01:06:05 Indian exceptionalism and the achievements of Indian secularism 01:08:30 Misconceptions about democracy, the weakness of Indian institutions 01:11:30 The recent controversial citizenship laws, the NRC and CAA 01:19:09 How Covid-19 and the pandemic have affected Indian politics. Sadanand’s predictions for the future.

In March 2021, social media giant Facebook released its first human rights policy. Given the multiple challenges the company faces on a range of human rights issues, the announcement has generated great interest and questions about how it will be implemented. Few companies have an impact on society as vast as Facebook does. By offering a social network that brings together 2.8 billion users, it reaches more people than the population of China and India put together. While it offers its service for free, it gets access to users' data – their images, words, likes, and dislikes – and tailors content to ensure users return again and again.Ostensibly to safeguard human rights, it has removed a sitting US President from its platform, suspended Myanmar's army from its pages, and spotted suspicious activity by Chinese interests against Uyghur activists. At the same time, human rights groups and UN experts have accused the company of allowing its platform to be used to facilitate mass violence, as well as permitting the dissemination of conspiracy theories, misinformation, and promoting hatred.Miranda Sissons, formerly of the International Centre for Transitional Justice and Human Rights Watch, joined Facebook in 2019 as the company's first-ever Director for Human Rights. Sissons spoke with IHRB's Salil Tripathi about why the company has developed the new policy, what it means, and how it will be implemented. In a wide-ranging conversation that also deals with some of the thorny dilemmas the company faces, Sissons points out the limits of what she feels Facebook can and cannot do; where it can push back on government demands to take down content and those orders that it must comply with; and how it hopes to work with experts to protect freedom of expression and privacy online.

A special episode on freedom and rights in India

Priyamvada Gopal talks to Salil Tripathi about her latest book, Insurgent Empire: How rebellious slave colonies changed British attitudes to Empire (2019). Insurgent Empire shows how Britain’s enslaved and colonial subjects were active agents in their own liberation. What is more, they shaped British ideas of freedom and emancipation back in the United Kingdom. Priyamvada Gopal is a Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Churchill College. Her main teaching and research interests are in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, gender and feminism, Marxism and critical race studies.  Salil Tripathi is a Bombay-born writer based in New York. He is the author of several books, and his next book is about the Gujaratis. He chairs PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee. Salil has been a correspondent in India, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and worked at human rights organisations in London. His journalism has won awards in India and abroad. He writes for Mint and Caravan. BIC Talks is brought to you by the Bangalore International Centre. Visit the BIC website for show notes, links and more information about the guest.

In this conversation, Vani Saraswathi of Migrant-Rights.org tells IHRB's Salil Tripathi why companies should be actively engaged with the workers' conditions, even if they are not their direct employers, and why they should take the responsibility seriously. She calls for the pressing need for improved national labour protections for domestic workers in the Gulf and globally, because their risks have increased dramatically due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with many of them out-of-work and stranded. She offers practical steps that can be taken to safeguard their rights.  About Vani Saraswathi:Vani Saraswathi is the Associate Editor and Director of Projects, Migrant-Rights.org and the author of Stories of Origin: The Invisible Lives of Migrants in the Gulf.Vani moved to Qatar in 1999, working with several local and regional publications, and launching some of Qatar's leading periodicals during her 17-year stint there. Since 2014, in her role with Migrant-Rights.org she reports from the Gulf states and countries of Origin. She organises advocacy projects and human rights training targeting individual employers, embassies, recruitment agents and businesses in Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and UAE. She also contributes as an expert commentator on issues related to human rights in the GCC for various international publications and at international forums, including those hosted by UN agencies and is a member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the ILO Regional Office for Arab States.Migrant-Rights.org is a one of its kind bi-lingual content-based advocacy platform that focusses on the GCC states and the corridors of migration, Asia & Africa. It was started 13 years ago by activist Esra'a El Shafei.

As the world comes to grips with the pandemic Covid-19, governments are acting in an uncoordinated manner and the international community is looking to companies to act responsibly. In this conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, Antoine Bernard, who has headed the International Federation for Human Rights, known by its French acronym FIDH, and has examined the role of business with regard to human rights, speaks of the pressing need for companies to adhere to international standards.The pandemic, he notes, comes at a time when business credibility has been tested severely, because globalisation has enabled companies to operate without clear rules regarding their responsibility. In situations of armed conflict or heightened tensions, for example, the dissemination of hate speech is enabled by technology, and groups and communities subject to attacks have few remedies available to safeguard their rights.

President of the National Human Rights Council in Morocco, Amina Bouayach, speaks with IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the need for greater corporate accountability for human rights in Morocco.

Kashmir er ein stat splitta i to av India og Pakistan. Sidan 1990 har eit brutalt militæregime traumatisert den i hovudsak muslimske befolkninga som bur på indisk side, og titusenar har blitt drepne, torturerte, valdtekne eller forsvunne. I august 2019 mista Kashmir siste rest av demokrati og fritt styresett, og sidan har all kommunikasjon og ferdsel vore kontrollert av det indiske militæret. Forfattaren Nitasha Kaul er frå Kashmir, og vil lese frå eigne tekstar og diskutere situasjonen i heimregionen med Salil Tripathi, journalist, forfattar og leiar for PEN International Writers in Prison Committee. Arrangementet vil vere på engelsk. Halvvegs i programmet blir det ein pause på 15 min. I samarbeid med Norsk PEN og Raftostiftelsen. På Bergen internasjonale litteraturfestival for sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur (LitFestBergen) gir vi deg internasjonal og norsk litteratur på sitt aller beste. Her oppdagar du ny sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur frå alle verdsdelar.

Kashmir is a state split between India and Pakistan. Since 1990, a brutal military regime has traumatised the mostly Muslim population living on the Indian side. Tens of thousands of people have been killed, thousands more have been disappeared, tortured or raped. Indian Kashmir lost its last vestiges of democracy and the rule of law in August 2019, and all communication and movement are now strictly controlled by the military. Writer Nitasha Kaul will read some of her work and discuss conditions in her home region with Salil Tripathi, journalist, writer and chair of PEN International's writers in prison committee. In collaboration with Norwegian PEN and the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights. In English

For a comprehensive guide to Salil’s work, see: http://www.saliltripathi.com/Welcome.html Salil’s articles for Mint: https://www.livemint.com/topic/salil-tripathi Salil’s article for Caravan: https://caravanmagazine.in/author/93 Salil’s books can be found here: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy (2016): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300218184/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 Detours: Songs of the Open Road (2015): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A59F3J8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1 Offence: The Hindu Case (2009): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906497389/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2 You can follow Salil @saliltripathi on Twitter. Further References Letter: https://letter.wiki/conversations The Impossible Conversations competition: https://www.impossibleconversations.info/ The conversation on Antifa and political violence: https://letter.wiki/conversation/59 My accounts of letter exchanges in Areo can be found here: https://areomagazine.com/author/terpsichoral/ Roger Cohen’s article on Kashmir: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-modi-houston.html Isaac Chotiner’s interview with Roger Cohen: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-times-columnist-roger-cohen-on-the-future-of-india Salil’s article on the Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan: https://caravanmagazine.in/media/question-journalists-support-for-armed-forces Modi’s article on Gandhi: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/modi-mahatma-gandhi.html The Indian Penal Code: https://indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/2263?view_type=browse&sam_handle=123456789/1362 Salil Tripathi on M.F. Husain: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303714704576383173779641758 M.F. Husain’s work: https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-f-husain Salil on the Modi myth: https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/minds-modi-myth Meera Sanyal on demonitisation: https://www.amazon.in/Big-Reverse-Demonetization-Knocked-India/dp/9353023947 Salil’s obituary of Meera Sanyal: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-lessons-from-an-old-friend-that-india-s-public-life-should-imbibe-1548259689773.html Salil on whataboutery: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/5nErFTVfxk0UPN2WT9QpAI/The-role-of-a-writer.html Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on Indian freedom: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45668/gitanjali-35 Jon Lee Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson John Pilger on Cambodia: http://johnpilger.com/videos/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia Vajpayee’s speech calling for the destruction of Babri Masjid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Nvqqx5_Po Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980) Timestamps 3:25 Letter and the Impossible Conversations competition 8:45 The portrayal of India in the domestic and international media, esp regarding the situation in Kashmir 14:40 Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan 19:00 Recent coverage of India in the foreign press 23:50 Lynchings and the Modi government 27:40 Trump versus Modi 32:33 Free speech and the Indian penal code 37:00 The Modi myth 43:00 The injustices of Indian bureacracy 46:12 Indian whataboutery 51:32 What inspired Salil to become a journalist 53:10 Salil’s journalistic icons 54:30 The biggest challenges facing journalists today 1:06:42 Salil’s predictions for the future of journalism in India

In this podcast, Rohini Lakshané talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about state-ordered internet shutdowns in India - in particular in Jammu & Kashmir and Manipur, and of the adverse human rights impacts that result, particularly for women.

In this podcast, IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Mark Taylor, Froydis Cameron, Marcela Manubens and Pia Rudolfsson Goyer about the state of business & human rights, and what is now needed from business, government and the proposed BHR treaty.

In this podcast, Erik Hagen and Asria Mohamed of Western Sahara Resource Watch talk to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about foreign companies operating in Western Sahara and how they should seek consent of the Sahawari people themselves.

In this podcast IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Scott Edwards about how human rights groups can use technology more effectively and why it is important to make tech companies understand and be accountable for their impacts.

In this podcast, Abduweli Ayup talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the Chinese government's use of facial recognition technology to surveil the Uygher population of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Vasuki Shastry, Steve Tsang, Ellen Barry and Lijia Zhang in conversation with Salil Tripathi. While the phenomenal economic rise of India and China is of key interest to economists around the world, the civilisational links between these two ancient cultures are equally fascinating. A session on how the ‘elephant’ and the ‘dragon’ negotiate their relationship with each other and the ways in which their growing influence is reshaping the world. Author and expert on Asian economies and public policy Vasuki Shastry, political scientist and historian Steve Tsang, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellen Barry and factory worker-turned writer Lijia Zhang discuss the two Asian superpowers and their impact on the world as we know it with author Salil Tripathi. This episode is a live session from #ZEEJLFatBL2019.

In this week’s episode, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Madhu Trehan, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, and journalist and author Salil Tripathi.The discussion kicks off with speeches and controversies in Parliament this week. This includes the super-viral speech by MP Mahua Moitra as well as the chants of “Vande Mataram” during various swearing-ins.The panel then talks about the recent case of lynching of a Muslim man in Jharkhand who was beaten up and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. Abhinandan found the coverage of this case to be “deeply problematic” and noted that “what-aboutery has become almost a legitimate argument” on primetime shows. Anand talks about the culture of mob justice in India and how it’s fueling communal lynchings.Moving to the water crisis in Chennai, the panel discusses its effects as well as the solutions that could help alleviate this problem. Anand discusses the urban/rural divide on this issue while Salil talks about steps taken in other countries that have had an actual effect on the water crisis.The podcast wraps up with Abhinandan bringing up the controversy around BJP MP Kailash Vijayvargiya and his son BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya who was filmed beating up a government official with a cricket bat. The panel observes the lacklustre questioning by the media and the relative impunity with which politicians in India operate with.For this and more, tune in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this podcast, Mohna Ansari talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the major human rights issues in Nepal, and how companies must respect the environment and local indigenous culture when investing in the country.

In this podcast, Agnes Callamard talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the responsibility of communications and surveillance companies when conducting business with states that commit human right violations.

In this week’s episode, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Madhu Trehan, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, and journalist and author Salil Tripathi.The discussion kicks off with speeches and controversies in Parliament this week. This includes the super-viral speech by MP Mahua Moitra as well as the chants of “Vande Mataram” during various swearing-ins.The panel then talks about the recent case of lynching of a Muslim man in Jharkhand who was beaten up and forced to chant “Jai Shri Ram”. Abhinandan found the coverage of this case to be “deeply problematic” and noted that “what-aboutery has become almost a legitimate argument” on primetime shows. Anand talks about the culture of mob justice in India and how it’s fueling communal lynchings.Moving to the water crisis in Chennai, the panel discusses its effects as well as the solutions that could help alleviate this problem. Anand discusses the urban/rural divide on this issue while Salil talks about steps taken in other countries that have had an actual effect on the water crisis.The podcast wraps up with Abhinandan bringing up the controversy around BJP MP Kailash Vijayvargiya and his son BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya who was filmed beating up a government official with a cricket bat. The panel observes the lacklustre questioning by the media and the relative impunity with which politicians in India operate with..For this and more, tune in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this podcast, Han Dongfang talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about labour rights in China, and how the situation has changed over the last thirty years.

In this podcast, Jennifer Zerk talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about research she conducted for Chatham House on the benefits of including human rights impact assessments in international trade agreements. The podcast is in two parts.

In this podcast, Jennifer Zerk talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about research she conducted for Chatham House on the benefits of including human rights impact assessments in international trade agreements. The podcast is in two parts.

In this podcast, Stephen Ekka talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about his efforts to fight for workers' rights in the tea plantations of Assam.

In this podcast, Deepika Rao talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the living and working conditions of female migrant workers in the garment industry in Bangalore.

IHRB"s Salil Tripathi talks to Bahraini human rights defender Maryam Al Khawaja about what journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey means for business relationships with Saudi Arabia's current regime.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Lazarus Tamana of MOSOP's ongoing struggle for remedy for the Ogoni people whose lands and people have been devastated by oil operations in the Niger Delta since the early 1990s.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Virginia Bras Gomes of the challenges and obligations of companies in developing remedies for gender-based human rights abuses in varying jurisdictions.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to feminist human rights advocate Sanyu Awori about what companies need to do to overcome issues facing women and people of colour in the workplace – from CEOs to the bottom of the supply chain.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Bangladeshi labour leader Nazma Akter about how corporates and consumers alike undermine women's rights with cheap goods, and how much remains to be done to enable women's empowerment down the supply chain.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to gender equality expert Harpreet Kaur about how businesses need to work with NGOs to improve gender equality at a societal level.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to campaigner Laya Vasudevan about the progress of transgender and hijra rights in India, and the landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2014 that granted all trans people the status of 'third gender'.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to gender equality expert Srilatha Batliwala about what needs to be done deep within organisational cultures to remove gender-based harassment in the workplace.

In this podcast with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, Al-Khawaja shows the inadequacy of non-judicial remedies to deal with incidents that cause grave harm to human rights, and the failure of companies to do anything about the adverse impacts of their technologies.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Charles Radcliffe of the UN Human Rights Office in New York about eradicating discrimination against women and LGBTI rights.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Sanchita Saxena about mitigating risks to worker safety.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Ajda Cevc of Inter Ikea Group about ensuring responsible recruitment throughout IKEA's supply chain.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to international lawyer Claes Cronstedt about creating new mechanisms to resolve business and human rights disputes.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Norwegian NCP Frode Elgesem about strengthening dispute settlement mechanisms between companies and rights-holders.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with academic Doug Cassel about efforts underway to draft and negotiate a binding treaty on business and human rights.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey about addressing injustices in interactions with communities.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi talks to Indian human rights scholar Usha Ramanathan about issues around remedy in relation to big data.

In this podcast, Richard Meeran, who has represented clients who have grievances against corporate conduct, talks to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the challenges and offers ways in which the process can be simplified.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Anneke Van Woudenberg of RAID about the African Commission's Landmark $2.5 Million Award to DR Congo Massacre Victims

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Gopinath Parakuni of Cividep about his work with shoe workers in Tamil Nadu, Southern India

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Andy Hall about his campaigns on behalf of migrant workers in Thailand.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Karamat Ali about a pivotal case in Pakistan, when a large fire at a garment factory killed more than two hundred workers.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Professor Surya Deva, of the City University of Hong Kong, on his recent appointment to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Working Group's current plans for improving access to remedy.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Meghna Abraham of Amnesty International on their new report "The Great Palm Oil Scandal: Labour Abuses behind big brand names" documenting the conditions in which workers work at oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi speaks with Seema Joshi of Amnesty International on their new report "The Great Palm Oil Scandal: Labour Abuses behind big brand names" documenting the conditions in which workers work at oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

The Coordinator of the Uganda Consortium on Corporate Accountability (UCCA) talks with IHRB's Salil Tripathi about their baseline study on the state of business, human rights and corporate accountability in Uganda's extractive sector and beyond.

In a conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, Jayaraman talks about the struggle for justice from mercury contamination near a former thrermometer factory in Kodaikanal, India, as well as the long campaign for justice following the Bhopal gas disaster.

In a wide-ranging conversation about the applicability of multistakeholder initiatives on business and human rights in post-conflict societies, Bennett spoke to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the Bosnian situation.

In a conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, Hasan talks of the gap between declared intentions of international standards and the reality on the ground in many countries, where governments are unwilling or unable to implement laws that protect rights.

In a conversation with IHRB's Salil Tripathi, the OECD's Kathryn Dovey discussed the reach of OECD National Contact Points (NCP), the potential NCPs represent, and how they could provide a way to ensure that companies act responsibly.

Recently in Cambridge, MA, IHRB's Salil Tripathi talked to Dr Sandel about business and human rights. To what extent does morality guide markets? Is it enough for business to comply with existing laws, or should it strive to do more?

For more than two decades, Boele has advised companies dealing in natural resources, retail, and property on human rights and social impacts. Recently he spoke to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the changing landscape of business and human rights.

In Mumbai in February, Henshaw and Tikoo spoke to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the rationale behind embedding human rights within the sustainability framework, the path the company has chosen, the need to align the framework with the UN Guiding Principles

Australia has a long history of accepting refugees and asylum seekers. But in recent years Australian governments have tightened laws, including producing videos sternly warning potential asylum seekers not to attempt to reach Australia.

IHRB's Salil Tripathi met Professor Bilchitz during the UN Forum in Geneva where he made the case for a treaty for business and human rights.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently published a report which highlights the risks of reprisals human rights defenders face when they oppose projects financed by the World Bank.

The creation of the BRICS Bank has drawn the attention of not only international financial institutions and governments, but also international civil society.

Thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees are stranded in the Andaman Sea, victims of human trafficking. Countries in the region - Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia - are unwilling to let them enter their territory.

Colin Jackson is a champion athlete who has been an Olympic silver medalist for Britain, and has been the world champion in 110m hurdles thrice, and held the world record for the race for over a decade.

Rayyan Hassan is a Bangladeshi development expert based in the Philippines, who is the executive director of the NGO Forum at the Manila-based multilateral financial institution, Asian Development Bank.

Baone Twala is a candidate attorney at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), a human rights organisation and law clinic based at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

Bill Browder is an investor whose London-based firm Hermitage Capital Management was an early investor in Russia and was highly profitable. Over time, Browder led campaigns for greater transparency in financial statements of Russian companies.

Chris Jochnick is the Director of the Private Sector Department at Oxfam America. He has worked for two decades on issues of human rights, development and corporate accountability.

In January, Indian officials at Delhi airport prevented Priya Pillai, a campaigner at Greenpeace India, from boarding a flight to London, where she was invited to speak to an All-Party Parliamentary Group in the UK about a controversial coal-mining projec

Curated by The Otolith Collective. Followed by response and audience discussion with Anand Patwardhan, Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar and Salil Tripathi.

Curated by The Otolith Collective. Followed by response and audience discussion with Janna Graham, Anand Patwardhan, Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar and Salil Tripathi.

Anne McElvoy and Susannah Clapp review the west-end play Doktor Glas, starring Krister Henricksson, best known in the UK for his role as Kurt Wallander. Sheryl Sandberg the chief operating officer of Facebook talks about her new book, Lean In, describing how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers and encourages women to sit at the table and pursue their goals. Saloua Raouda Choucair has her first international exhibition at Tate Modern. Richard Cork and Karl Sharro assess her work and examine how she fits within 20th century art history. Thane Rosenbaum and Salil Tripathi discuss revenge and justice.

Human Rights Consortium Mining in Colombia and Latin America: will the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights improve accountability? Panel 3: UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: How should the Respect, Protect and Rem...

Human Rights Consortium Mining in Colombia and Latin America: will the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights improve accountability? Panel 3: UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: How should the Respect, Protect and Rem...