India-US trade deal and Karnataka’s plan to bring back student elections | South Central Episode 60

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In the first session, hosts Pooja Prasanna and Anisha Sheth discuss the India-US trade deal and the recently announced reduction in tariffs. They are joined by senior journalists Smita Sharma and TK Arun.

Pooja recalls how the announcements on the tariffs were made, asking if the swift manner says something. She asks what Trump’s announcement on India discontinuing oil purchase from Russia really means, as far as we understand now. What led up to the break in negotiations, and did we ended up conceding sovereignty? What about sectors like tech or agriculture?

The panel further goes into how governments before Modi have handled international trade, and how Trump’s world order has changed things for us.

In the second part of the discussion, the hosts delve into the ban on student elections in Karnataka and the Congress government’s proposal to bring it back. They are joined by Professor Muralidhar PS of the Bangalore University, President of the Teacher’s union.

Anisha recalls how DK Shivakumar formed the panel to revise the ban on student elections last year. “The panel has only party leaders, and they are looking at whether elections can be started. But the Supreme Court’s Lyngdoh Committee has already conducted broad consultations and put together why and how student elections help to foster campus democracy. The Committee has also reflected on the conduct of elections, violence and so on,” she says.

Pooja reminds how campus violence has been a major factor brought up to argue against campus elections.

All this and more.

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