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Published: Sept. 8, 2022, 4 p.m.

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Synopsis: Every second Friday of the month, join The Straits Times\' associate editor Ravi Velloor, as he distills his experience from four decades of covering the continent.

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In this episode, he hosts Prof Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia and Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences at Brown University in the US.

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They talk about India\\u2019s democratic experience through 75 years of existence as an independent nation. They also discuss past, and recent challenges to democracy, and ask the question: Can India turn authoritarian, or worse?

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Highlights (click/tap above):

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1:45 How appropriate is it to call India "the world\\u2019s biggest democracy"?\\xa0

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6:53 Caste and politics, and elite circulation

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13:59 A Sri Lankan path for India?

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15:45 Could India lose democracy?

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21:25 Indian secularism is an indigenous concept

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Produced by: Ravi Velloor (velloor@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis and Teo Tong Kai

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Edited by: Teo Tong Kai

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Follow Speaking Of Asia Podcast every second Friday of the month on our Asian Insider Podcast channel here:

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