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Jignesh Mevani: ‘Bilkis Bano is close to my heart’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHl1y_BqeM  Former independent MLA and now Congress candidate from Vadagam speaks with Manisha Pande of Newslaundry while campaigning for the second phase of , which is scheduled for December 5. Jignesh talks about the conflict he sees between electoral politics and activism, the reason he is speaking about at election rallies, and why he thinks the Congress has "too much democracy". He also dwells on why he joined the Congress and the role Rahul Gandhi played, the difference between Ambedkarite and Gandhian approach to caste, and more.

Mallika Sarabhai on 2002, Rocket Boys, and how Gujarat has changed in her lifetime | NL Interview https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=250 Ahmedabad growing.. of institutions.  Ahmedabad is more casteist today that it was a few years ago.  .  Malika Sarabai is an artist, actress, classical dancer and activist from Gujarat. In this conversation with Manisha Pande, she talks about how Gujarat, and particularly her hometown Ahmedabad, has changed since her childhood, her relationship with her parents, the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, her brief stint in politics, and what separates activists from politicians. “Activists don’t play on the common denominator of fear, hatred and insecurity,” she opines, “politicians do”.

Talking about the 2002 carnage, she recalls, “My neighbours were going out there in cars to loot shops and calling their friends to say, ‘Mattresses are good in this shop and we are looting so come.’ My dentist might have been out there, my gynaecologist might have been out there.” https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=951

She also explores the nuances the TV series Rocket Boys missed about the relationship of her parents, classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and space scientist Vikram Sarabhai.

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/nehru-read-ramayana-every-morning-for-pure-joy-he-also-turned-to-religion-in-his-old-age/1237854/   "I have begun seriously reading the Ramayan—Tulsi too, and Kabir’s bhajans and slokas from Bhagavad Gita serve as memory exercises whilst I have my morning and evening walks. I have, as you might well imagine, regularly done my prayers, regularly retired at the time appointed by you, and been out of bed at the same hour when, as Nanak says the “Heavens rain nectar”.’ Later in the same letter, Nehru remarks: ‘My days are passed among the saints nowadays, and I should love to finish as well as I can my knowledge of the Bible, the Saints (including Christian Saints of course), the Ramayan and the Mahabharat (including of course the Bhagavad Gita). I have some secular literature [with me], no doubt, but that takes frankly, a subordinate place.