Inside India Amanbeer Khanduja

I'm in an introspective mental space in this tiny episode about taxis..but I may just drag you in there with you.

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This episode takes the proverbial dip in the muddied waters of the battle towards complete and true equality. I try and make sense of what the ruling around same-sex marriages earlier in March 2021 was supposed to mean for the LGTBQ community in the country, and whether it really makes historical sense, as the Centre tried to imply.

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In this second of the two-part "special", as it were, we further uncover what it was that took the independent Indian government, one that was tolerant, if not proud, of its habit of vices, and drove it to the point of a blanket ban and social stigmatization. We're talking about the forces of the United States and the side-effects of its largely political War on Drugs™.

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The transcript and other information about this episode are available on the Inside India Medium blog.

References:
https://legacy.npr.org/assets/news/2013/onion-drugs.pdf
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html
https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11325750/nixon-war-on-drugs
https://drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war
https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-shocking-and-sickening-story-behind-nixons-war-on-drugs-that-targeted-blacks-and-anti-war-activists/
https://www.incb.org/incb/en/precursors/1988-convention.html
https://danbaum.com/smoke-and-mirrors-the-war-on-drugs-and-the-politics-of-failure/
https://www.lawyered.in/legal-disrupt/articles/marijuana-illegal-india/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/jul/24/war-on-drugs-40-years
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rEzsK6F8joWolEPVOzSfH

In the inaugural episode of Inside India, we probe further into the vice business, the journey through moral debauchery in India. We're talking about drugs, it's relevance in Indian culture, and in part one of this two-part series, we cover one of two stories that are pivotal to India's current cultural diaspora around the topic of drugs.

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References:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3876660?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://blog.sagipl.com/legality-of-cryptocurrency-by-country/

https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/34954/Prelude to the Opium War (final).pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

https://houghton.hk/lord-napier/

If you're anything like me, you were taught history with facts and dates. You were writing 5 mark answers for an exam. That's why it was boring, and that's where Inside India comes in, where I try to give you the history that you wanted to learn, not the one that you had to.

Inside the Joint Venture I - OUT NOW!

An amuse-bouche, in French, really just means to 'amuse the mouth', and is served to diners to give them a little heads up for what's coming after. This episode is sort of like that but in the auditory sense. In this episode of Inside India, I talk about what's coming in the near future and explain what this podcast is about.

Note: The audio isn't the best on this episode but it gets better going forward.