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• Interviewers must treat guests as equals

  Broadcast On August 12, 2018

  ... of the HARDtalk variety rather than chat show conversations. The latter are very different. But in the former case when an interviewer calls his guest Arun or Ravi, Sita or Kapil he is establishing a link ...

• No clear picture on unemployment in India

  Broadcast On February 10, 2019

  ... So do we have a real and growing hunger for jobs? The government, of course, dismisses this analysis. If the situation is so bad, Arun Jaitley asks, how come we haven’t seen widespread social unrest? ...

• Dissent is a Gandhian virtue. It is not sedition

  Broadcast On October 13, 2019

  ... it wrong. In a 2017 speech in London, Arun Jaitley said: “Free speech does not permit you to assault the sovereignty of the country”. He was wrong. That’s precisely what the Supreme Court declared in 1995 ...

• Where the State should step back

  Broadcast On January 17, 2021

  ... it’s also hypocritical and often untrue.   For instance, beedis are taxed very differently to cigarettes on the grounds they are smoked by poorer Indians. But look at the mess Arun Jaitley got into ...

• Arun Jaitley

  Broadcast On May 6, 2005

  Arun Jaitley, Hardtalk India ...

• Karan Thapar

  ... for his HARDtalk India interview with India’s former Law Minister and now BJP General  Secretary Arun Jaitley. In December 2007 Karan Thapar broke his own record when he won the Asian Television Award ...