you need to be hungrier. you need to be bolder. you need to be more imaginative. we talk disinformation. there s a lot of propaganda and disinformation coming i from non ij handles also. and we ask, what matters? the most raw, yet nuanced political conversations in india often happen at these kind of tea stalls. welcome to this is india. today we re talking elections. india is the world s largest democracy, an economic powerhouse set to become the world s third largest economy. internationally, india is having its moment courted by the united states as a counterweight to china. a voice for the global south. any day now, india will call elections. voting will take place over several weeks, and the results don tjust matter to the people living in it. it matters to the world. now, in india, there are dozens of political parties in this country, but two really dominate the bjp and the congress. before we get there, though, let s take a look at the election in numbers. 968 milli
treated in hospital, and a third was injured by the moped. none of the injuries are thought to be life threatening, detectives are trying to trace the moped and its writers after the incident in the clapham area earlier this afternoon. severe weather has been hitting parts of asia over the last few days afghanistan, northern pakistan and north western india have been hit by storms and heavy snowfall temperatures are predicted to drop to minus 16 in kabul on sunday. according to local media, as a result of the recent extreme cold in some provinces of afghanistan, 15 people have died, and nearly 30 others have been injured. here to tell us more is our weather presenter chris fawkes. chris, that part of the world sees extreme weather sometimes, why is this significant now? look extreme weather sometimes, why is this significant now? this significant now? look at the vulnerability this significant now? look at the vulnerability of this significant now? look at the vulner
thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an awful lot of ceos around the world w
shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an
shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, numberfive in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an