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Raoof Hasan, former special adviser to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, speaks to Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan's current ferment | SAM Conversation
C Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan's compounded crises | SAM Conversation
Deepak Vohra, former Indian ambassador to Sudan, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on the crisis engulfing the northeast African nation | SAM Conversation
Sarod virtuoso Amjad Ali Khan speaks with Mayank Chhaya on his life in music | SAM Conversation
Royal Indian Navy sailors' uprising in February 1946 hastened British exit of India | SAM Conversation
India's relief diplomacy with Turkiye and fraught Ankara-Delhi ties | SAM Conversation
Myanmar's civil war and its impact on India's North East / panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Dr. N Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-British astronomer, mathematician and astrobiologist, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent of Pakistan's leading newspaper Dawn, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Celebrity Indian writer and columnist Shobha De speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Australian immunologist Nikolai Petrovsky speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Wuhan virus leak that caused Covid epidemic | SAM Conversation
Brig AP Singh (retd) speaks with Col Anil Bhat (retd) on Grandeur of India’s ancient temple architecture | SAM Conversation
C Uday Bhaskar, Indian strategic analyst, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan’s general turned president Pervez Musharraf’s legacy | SAM Conversation
High-altitude tank warfare /panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Seema Sirohi, veteran journalist and writer, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on 'Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story' | SAM Conversation
India's celebrated poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Mahbouba Seraj, one of Afghanistan's most prominent women's rights activists, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Taliban ‘erasing’ women from public life | SAM Conversation
Jawahar Lal Kaul, author of Jammu & Kashmir: The Wounded Paradise speaks with Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Lt Gen Rajan Bakhshi, author of Cavalier's Take; Memoirs of a Soldier's General discusses, among other things, with Col Anil Bhat (retd) on tank deployment in the Line of Actual Control with China | SAM Conversation
The musical world of S D Burman: Biographer Sathya Saran speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Are India’s intellectuals “anti-India”?/Salvatore Babones, Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
India's military use of space / moderator Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Indian danseuse Mallika Sarabhai's experiments with living: speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Induction of Light Combat Helicopter in Indian Armed Forces and their strategic implications /panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
The untold Siachen story: The world’s highest battleground/panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Traffic expert Vidyadhar Date speaks with Mayank Chhaya on India's spiralling road deaths | SAM Conversation
India's Internal Security Challenges | SAM Public Lecture at India International Centre on September 27, 2022
Growing radicalisation in Assam and northeast India: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
বাংলাদেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার ভারত সফর | শ্রীরাধা দত্ত সঙ্গে স্বদেশ রায় এর আলোচনা
Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd), strategic analyst, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on INS Vikrant and India's growing naval power | SAM Conversation
Northeast extremism and peace process: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Mahbouba Seraj, founder of Afghan Women’s Network, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Anil Rajvanshi, renewable energy expert, rural technology innovator and spiritual thinker, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Abhay Ashtekar, US-based theoretical physicist, speaks with Mayank Chhaya, on Oppenheimer, atomic bomb and the Bhagavad Gita | SAM Conversation
PLA’s stepped up activities at LAC and future of India-China ties: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Dr Tony Nader, Lebanese neuroscientist and exponent of Vedic learning, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Lisa Singh, CEO, Australia India Institute, Melbourne and Amb Amit Dasgupta (retd) discuss Australia-India ties with Tarun Basu | SAM Conversation
‘Tour of Duty': A controversial new proposal on short-term recruitment for India's armed forces: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Nuclear Challenges to India’s Security: panel moderated by Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd) | IIC-SPS Public Lecture
Aishani Jayasinghe, Colombo-based architect and social media activist, speaks with Mayank Chhaya, on the citizen's uprising in Sri Lanka | SAM Conversation
Beijing’s suspected biowarfare research with Pakistan: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Ukraine War: Impact on India’s Energy Security: panel moderated by Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd) | SPS-IIC Public Lecture
Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent of Karachi-based Dawn newspaper, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on the dramatic turn of events in Pakistan | SAM Conversation
Afghan women's rights activist and journalist Mahbouba Seraj speaks with Mayank Chhaya from Kabul | SAM Conversation
Ukraine War: History and Genesis | SPS-IHC Lecture by Madhavan K Palat, Professor of Russian and European History at Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ukraine crisis: One month on..... | SAM Webinar on the current Russia-Ukraine conflict as it enters its second month
A 'juggernaut' rolls: The compelling story of the Canadian nuclear reactor's road travel in India in 1968. Paul Saltzman, member of the film crew of 'Juggernaut', speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Kusum Kaul Vyas, President of Kashmiri Samaj, Ahmedabad speaks with Mayank Chhaya in a firsthand account of what transpired in 1990 when she and her family had to flee their home in Anantnag, Kashmir | SAM Conversation
Ukraine crisis and challenges for India: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Tushar Gandhi, writer, peace activist and great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi speaks with Mayank Chhaya about his grandmother, Kastur(ba) Gandhi, and her decisive, if subtle, influence | SAM Conversation
Col Anil Bhat (retd), former Spokesperson, Ministry of Defence and Indian Army, in conversation with Akshat Singh | SAM Conversation
India and Maldives: Strategic cooperation and pitfalls, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Indian American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava speaks with Mayank Chhaya on how he and his two colleagues ended up solving a more than six-decades-old problem whose existence they were not even aware of | SAM Conversation
Faceoff on icy heights: Will India, China see complete disengagement in 2022?: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
SAM Conversation on book Afghanistan, The New Great Game: panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Richard Rossow, Senior Adviser and Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS, Washington, in conversation with Akshat Singh | SAM Conversation
Neil Makhija, Executive Director, IMPACT, the US-based South Asian civic organization, in conversation with Akshat Singh | SAM Conversation
Dr. Purushottam Agrawal, Kabir scholar, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on life and times of 16th century poet-philosopher Kabir - who has been claimed by both Muslims and Hindus - and what his life tells the India of today | SAM Conversation
Popular Hindi film singer, mimic and artist Sudesh Bhosle speaks with Mayank Chhaya on his life in India's premier entertainment industry for over three decades | SAM Conversation
Indian Navy's lethal role in 1971, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Pavan Varma, respected political voice, former ambassador and MP and scholar-author, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
The 4 Horse Campaign: Recalling 1971, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Sanjaya Kumar Singh, Indian political commentator, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Ustad Rashid Khan, Hindustani classical music exponent, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Mahesh Bindra, former New Zealand MP of Indian origin, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
India's defence indigenisation, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Omar Sadr, Assistant Professor, American University of Afghanistan, Kabul and currently Research Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, US in conversation with Cmde C Uday Bhaskar on Afghanistan governance challenges
Kamal Haasan, Tamil cinema's superstar, speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Countering the Dragon: China’s border brinkmanship, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Dr Sreeradha Dutta, Centre Head, Neighbourhood Studies, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi speaks with Sirshendu Panth on 50 years of India-Bangladesh ties | SAM Conversation (In Bengali)
Dr Aparna Pande, Hudson Institute, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan and brewing anti-India separatist activism in the US | SAM Conversation
Bhajan and ghazal maestro Anup Jalota speaks with Mayank Chhaya | SAM Conversation
Afghanistan Fallout: Is Pakistan reaping the whirlwind? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Amb Teresita Schaffer (retd), former US ambassador and South Asia expert, in conversation with Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd) | SAM Conversation
Book discussion on Blinkers Off, How Will The World Counter China, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Book discussion on The Many Dialogues of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita : The Many Facets of India's Mystic Saint | SAM Conversation
Shraddha Nand Bhatnagar speaks with C Uday Bhaskar, Director SPS/SAM, on Modi visit to US, the Quad summit and its key takeaways | SAM Conversation (in Hindi)
Nandni Mahajan speaks with Commodore C Uday Bhaskar (retd), Director, SPS on AUKUS and the Quad Summit : Implications for India | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Vinod Busjeet, debut-making writer of novel about Indians in Mauritius | SAM Conversation
The Afghanistan Conundrum: Future Options, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Indian Army's Two Epic Battles: Commemorating September 11, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
C Uday Bhaskar speaks with Madhavan Palat, Delhi-based scholar- historian on 20 Years after 9/11 | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan women's rights activist from Kabul | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Sudheendra Kulkarni, columnist, peace activist and a former prime ministerial aide | SAM Conversation
China’s Exploitation of Tibet and Tibetans, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Nandni Mahajan speaks with Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd), Director, SPS on Afghanistan: What does the future hold? | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with John Bolton, former US National Security Adviser and Ambassador to UN | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan women and child rights activist | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with with Cmde C Uday Bhaskar (retd) on India’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier Vikrant | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Pavan Varma, former Indian diplomat and MP, on his upcoming book ‘The Great Hindu Civilisation” | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Dr WPS Sidhu, Nonresident Fellow CIC, NYU, on Afghanistan and implications for South Asia | SAM Conversation
Afghanistan On The Edge, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation jointly with USI
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Vir Sanghvi, Indian Journalist, Writer and TV Host | SAM Conversation
Centenary of CPC and South Asia: Will one see a more regionally assertive China? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with writer, director, producer and lyricist Amit Khanna | SAM Conversations
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Dr. Orville Schell, America’s foremost Sinologist, Arthur Ross Director of the Center | SAM Conversation
Rashmi Saksena speaks with Dr. Faheem and Gousiya Masoodi, Srinagar, Kashmir | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Manjari Makijany, who makes her debut as a feature film director with the Netflix charmer ‘Skater Girl’ | SAM Conversation
Col Anil Bhat (retd) on drone attack on Indian Air Force base in Jammu, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Take
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Tarun Basu on Expectations from Modi Meeting on Kashmir: A Reality Check | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Dr Mohan Agashe, film and stage actor | SAM Conversation
C Uday Bhaskar on A Year After India-China border clashes | SAM Take
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Paul Saltzman, documentary maker 'The Beatles in India' | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Zafar Choudhary, Srinagar-based journalist and policy analyst | SAM Conversation
Akshat Singh in conversation wtih Amish Raj Mulmi | 10MinswithSAM
Rashmi Saksena speaks with Dr Ambarish Satwik, Should India make RAT home kits mandatory? | SAM Conversation
Is China 'active' again in India's Northeast?, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks with Sanjaya Baru, Indian policy analyst and political commentator | SAM Conversation
Radicalisation: Its spreading tentacles in Bangladesh, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
What is China’s gameplan? Is India prepared? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks to writer-poet Ashok Vajpeyi | SAM Conversation
Neil Datta, New York-based fund manager, speaks with Akshat Singh | 10MinswithSAM
Frank Wisner & Amit Dasgupta in conversation with Tarun Basu | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya speaks to Jagdish Rattanani, Mumbai based journalist and cofounder of nonprofit media group The Billion Press | SAM Conversation
Mayank Chhaya in conversation Ngodup Tsering, the Dalai Lama’s representative to Washington DC | SAM Conversation
Future of Afghanistan; Implications for Region, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation in association with USI
Mayank Chhaya in conversation with Vedan Choolun & Ashwin Srivastav on digital restoration of India's world-famous Ajanta Cave murals | SAM Conversation
Why Xi's China cannot be friend to India, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
US troop pullout from Afghanistan/Mayank Chhaya speaks with Anwar Iqbal, Washington correspondent of Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper | SAM Conversation
Former US NSA John Bolton in conversation with Mayank Chhaya
Democracy Disabled in Myanmar: Implications for the Region, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Are drones the new security imperative? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Will Pakistan meaningfully implement the 2021 ceasefire? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
100 Years of Sahir Ludhianvi
India-China disengagement in Eastern Ladakh: What next? panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
IND-AUS relations and the road ahead | Barry O'Farrell AO Australian HC to India | SAM Conversation
Norway and South Asia | Amb Hans Jacob Frydenlund | 10MinswithSAM
Kargil and its relevance to India-China standoff, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Lessons from a General, panel moderated by Col Anil Bhat (retd) | SAM Conversation
Indian diaspora in focus | Dr. Thomas Abraham, Chairman, GOPIO | 10MinwithSAM
Online Learning in Pandemic Era | Amb Amit Dasgupta (retd.), Dr. Rukmini Banerji & Ms. Bhavna Jolly | SAM Conversations
Shabana Azmi: A renaissance artist on her life and career
Operation X | Col Anil Bhat, Cdr Vijai Kapil, Petty Officer Chiman Singh, Mr. Sandeep Unnithan | SAM
COVID-19 & Education in USA | Ariel Pollock, Spokesperson, U.S. Embassy, India | 10MinswithSAM
Pakistan's existential dilemma | Tilak Devasher, Pakistan expert and author | 10MinswithSAM
Future of Sri Lanka-China ties | Dr. Palitha Kohona, Sri Lanka's ambassador to China | 10 Mins with SAM
SAM Conversation with Ashwin Srivastava & Benoy Behl | Moderator Rashmi Saksena
SAM Conversations: C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Tarun Basu
2020 US Presidential Elections | Ashley J. Tellis, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Int. Peace
Bollywood - What's next? | Amit Khanna, Filmmaker, Founder, Reliance Entertainment | 10Min with SAM
Blue Economy and South Asia | Cmde. Anil Jai Singh, VP, Indian Maritime Foundation | 10Min with SAM
Integrated Mountain Initiative | P D Rai, two-term MP and President, IMI | 10Min with SAM
Follies of India’s New Farmer Bills | SAM Conversation with Barun Mitra, Founder, Liberty Institute
Bangladesh at 50 | SAM Conversation with Dr. Sreeradha Datta & Dr. S Narayan | Moderator Tarun Basu
Post-election Sri Lanka | Ten Minutes with Sugeeswara Senadhira, Director, International Media, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo
Rewiring the World | With Sam Pitroda, Entrepreneur and Development Thinker | 10Min with SAM
SAM Conversations - C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Mayank Chhaya
Af-Pak, Taliban & Imran Khan | Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director for Asia Program, Wilson Center
Indo-Dutch Relations | Amb. Venu Rajamony, Indian Ambassador to the Netherlands | SAM Conversations
India and South Asia | With Dr. Sreeradha Datta, Head, Neighborhood Studies, VIF | 10Min with SAM
India's New Education Policy 2020 | With Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO Pratham | 10Min with SAM
P. V. Narasimha Rao's Masterclass in Foreign Relations | With Shivshankar Menon | 10min with SAM
Coronavirus And The Migration Crisis | With Partha Pratim Mitra, Employment Analyst |10Min with SAM
Hiroshima @ 75 | Cmde. C Uday Bhaskar(retd) and Dr. Manpreet Sethi | SAM Conversations
60 Years of Mughal-E-Azam | Conversation with Prof. Ira Bhaskar | SAM Conversations
South Asia's Rohingya Refugee Crisis | Conversation with Amb (retd.) Rajiv Bhatia | 10Min with SAM
Tarun Basu in conversation with H E Tahir Qadiry, Acting Ambassador of Afghanistan to India
PM Narasimha Rao’s Foreign and Nuclear Policies | Conversation with Mr. Shyam Saran | 10Min with SAM
Ms. Rashmi Saksena in conversation with Ms. Apoorva Kaiwar and Mr. Brian Kohler | SAM Conversation
Higher Ed in a changed world | Amb Amit Dasgupta (retd.), Diplomat and Educationist | 10min with SAM
Women militants and insurgency in India | Conversation with Ms. Rashmi Saksena | 10min with SAM
10 minutes with SAM with Commodore Uday Bhaskar
Ten minutes with SAM
India's strategic and security challenges post Galwan | SAM Conversations
India-China-Russia Foreign Ministers meeting
India China agree to 'disengage' : Will they?
SAM Conversation with experts from the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
SAM Conversations - C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Amb Shyam Saran
SAM Conversations: Tarun Basu in conversation with Rajiv Walia IAS
SAM Conversations | Tarun Basu in conversation with Dr Nikita Bathla
C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Siraj Hussain
SAM Conversations | Tarun Basu in conversation with Amit Dasgupta India Country Director UNSW Sydney
C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Dr Sanjaya Baru former Information Adviser to the Prime Minister
SAM Conversation: C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Brig Ramanjit Singh Ahluwalia (retd)
SAM Conversations | C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Shyam Saran
India-US: Will the Modi-Trump chemistry endure?
India-Bangladesh: Ties going awry?
India Economic Outlook 2020: Will it revive growth and jobs?
Youth unrest: Clash of ideologies hits Indian campuses
Is wine culture growing in India?
India's place in a changing world order
Women's Safety - Need for Societal, not just Judicial Reforms
C Uday Bhaskar discusses the Citizenship Amendment Act with Arun Anand, CEO, Indraprasta Vishwa Samvad Kendra, New Delhi; Sanjoy Hazarika, Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, Author and Filmmaker and Tarun Basu, President, SPS
What Next for Climate Change?
Whither Pakistan? - C Uday Bhaskar in conversation with Tilak Devasher, former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat and author
SAM CONVERSATIONS
Raoof Hasan, former special adviser to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, speaks to Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan's current ferment | SAM Conversation
C Uday Bhaskar, Director, Society for Policy Studies, speaks with Mayank Chhaya on Pakistan's compounded crises | SAM Conversation
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WASHINGTON CALLING WITH FRANK ISLAM
Frank Islam speaks with Mayank Chhaya, Chicago-based journalist, filmmaker and commentator | Washington Calling
Frank Islam speaks with Sugeeswara Senadhira, Advisor (Media) to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka | Washington Calling
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REIMAGINING INDIA
In Indian capital, Muslim home cooks stir up a culinary revolution | Reimagining India
Transwomen serve inclusion on a plate
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BOOKS
Gandhi, 1918 flu pandemic and COVID19
Faith and judiciary: A case from Pakistan
Geetanjali Shree first Indian to win International Booker Prize: Will it open doors for translations of great literature in all Indian languages?
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