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We The People talk show in India hosted by Sarah Jacob . The programme is broadcast every Sunday night at 8 pm on NDTV 24x7 . It was originally hosted by Barkha Dutt .[1] [2] [3]
Show format [ edit ] We the People is a debate show on current affairs. A six- to eight-person panel is invited for each discussion. A panel typically consists of politicians, social scientists, academicians, social workers and celebrities, depending on the topic. The live audience often poses questions directly to panelists and are occasionally asked for a snap poll to weigh in on an argument. The show encompasses a wide variety of topics and is not limited to political issues.
Awards and accolades [ edit ] We The People won the 14th Asian Television Award for Best Talk Show for the year 2008 and Best Talk Show (English) at the "NT Award 2000".[4] [5]
List of episodes [ edit ]
Date
Title
Topic
February 4
Gujarat earthquake: The aftershock
October 21
The Indian Muslim voice
Date
Title
Topic
December 18
Sex change: Breaking free
December 25
Divided by borders, united in grief
Date
Title
Topic
January 1
Best of 2005
January 8
Do public figures have the right to private life?
January 15
Should IIMs be allowed to go global?
January 29
Is Chennai India's most conservative city?
February 5
Demolition: Is the capital headed for chaos?
February 26
Minority report: Will a religious survey harm the Indian Army?
March 5
Will quotas in private schools make education more accessible?
March 12
Is Islam's moderate voice silent?
March 19
Should there be regulations for sting operations?
March 26
Office of profit: Is the law irrational?
April 2
Should we take beauty pageants seriously?
April 10
Will the OBC quota create equality?
April 16
Rape cases: Should we have stricter laws?
April 30
Should the quota system be scrapped?
May 14
Budhia: Are we helping or hurting him?
May 21
Is religion hijacking creativity?
June 4
Is celebrity activism meaningful?
June 11
Is society to harsh with drug users?
June 18
Indo-Pak debate: A generation gap?
June 25
Is India's military still biased against women?
July 2
Is 90 percent not enough for college admissions anymore?
July 9
Are religious traditions fair to women?
July 14
Mumbai blasts: Time to get tough on terrorism
July 30
Does India really honour its soldiers?
August 6
Cola row: Is there too much fuss over fizz?
August 13
Is India still in awe of royalty?
August 18
Have the rules of marriage changed?
August 27
Should Vande Mataram be mandatory?
September 10
Are teachers undervalued and underpaid?
September 25
Is there any point in banning smoking in films?
October 1
Gandhigiri: Is it realistic?
October 22
The fight for gay rights
October 29
Behind the veil
November 5
Do media campaigns help or hurt justice?
November 12
Medical tourism: Have hospitals become hotels?
November 19
Do we need stricter alcohol laws?
December 3
Godmen & Politics: Unholy alliance?
December 3
Do spiritual leaders encourage blind faith?
December 10
Freedom vs faith: Has India forced MF Husain into exile?
December 17
Has the Afzal debate been politicised?
December 31
Trapped by nature: India's sex change phenomena
Date
Title
Topic
January 7
Are Noida killings India's shame?
January 14
Policing the internet: Possible or desirable?
January 28
Have Indians lost faith in the judicial process?
February 4
Death debate: Should euthanasia be legalised?
February 12
Who should decide what we watch?
February 25
Will Samjhauta blasts be a turning point in Indo-Pak relations?
March 11
Do Indian women still need feminism?
March 18
Is there a conflict between farms and WB factories?
March 26
Will you go under the knife to look better?
April 1
Is Team India being unfairly targeted?
April 8
Muslims: Pushed into a stereotype?
April 15
Flag & Anthem: Are Indians over-sensitive?
April 22
Has tabloid journalism become a norm?
April 30
Has judicial activism crossed the line?
May 6
Does popular opinion sanction encounter killings?
May 13
Has art been hijacked by moral police?
May 19
Do temples have a right to restrict entry?
May 20
Are extremists defining Sikh identity again?
June 17
Is politics a man's world?
June 24
Drugs: Why can't India say no?
July 9
Are Indians obsessed with weight?
July 22
Should it be legal to select the sex of your child?
August 5
Is sympathy for Sanjay justified?
August 12
Single Men = Good fathers?
August 26
Is anti-Americanism outdated?
September 2
Should the sex trade be legalised?
September 16
Should faith influence government policy?
September 23
Are sting operations unethical?
September 29
Do people have the right to die with dignity?
September 30
Indian Military Academy: Soldiering on
October 7
Why is modern India intolerant?
October 15
Can single men make good fathers?
October 28
N-deal rollback: UPA's image hurt?
November 11
Is the ban on child labour unrealistic?
November 19
Nandigram: Can the CPM recover?
November 25
Can creative freedom be absolute?
December 9
Has Gujarat progressed under Modi?
Date
Title
Topic
January 13
Should blogs be regulated?
January 20
Should politicians be considered for Bharat Ratna?
January 27
Does India take its national symbols too seriously?
February 3
Does India overplay the race card?
February 10
Is 18 old enough for marriage?
February 17
Pakistan: Democracy or dictatorship?
March 2
Should history be determined by popular sentiment?
March 9
Is India a fair field for men and women?
March 16
Scarlett Keeling case: Goa's dark side?
March 23
Would you go under the knife to look better?
March 30
Will higher salaries for bureaucrats improve performance?
April 6
Can politics and sports be kept separate?
April 13
Will quotas create equity or end excellence?
April 20
Can non-violence still be effective?
April 27
Does materialism define the New India?
May 4
Should smoking and drinking be banned on-screen?
May 11
Do women need political reservation?
May 18
Has India become indifferent to terror attacks?
June 1
'Police'ing the media?
June 15
Are India and America finally equal partners?
June 22
Amitav Ghosh's sentiments behind Sea of Poppies
August 3
Should the sex trade be legalised?
August 10
Jammu & Kashmir: The siege within
August 24
How should India deal with 'azaadi' demands?
August 31
Mamata, a roadblock for Nano dream?
September 7
Made-to-order babies?
September 14
Not just skin-deep prejudice
September 14
Is India losing the war against terror?
September 21
Can SIMI and Bajrang Dal be equated?
September 28
Why are Indians obsessed with fairness?
October 5
Is it time to decriminalise homosexuality?
October 12
Have the attacks on Christians destroyed India's image?
October 19
Will the financial crisis change India's attitude to money?
October 26
Is India's city of dreams getting destroyed by regionalism?
November 2
Obama or McCain: Who is better for India?
November 9
Can India's political establishment create an Obama like inspiration?
November 16
'Hindu' terror: Myth or fact?
November 23
Is the Indian dream in danger after the global financial crisis?
November 30
Enough is enough: India's 9/11
December 7
Anger into action: What can India do next?
December 14
Anatomy of anger
December 21
Has the Minority Affairs Minister embarrassed India's Muslims?
December 28
J&K verdict: End of separatism?
Date
Title
Topic
January 11
No war, no peace: India's Pakistan problem?
January 18
Should Satyam be saved?
January 25
The Slumdog phenomenon
February 2
Is peace possible between India and Pakistan?
February 8
The Advertising debate
February 15
The culture wars
March 1
Jai Ho: From Dharavi to LA and back
March 8
Should IPL and elections be held together?
March 15
Regional parties: The Kings makers?
March 22
Death, love, life on TV
March 29
New middle-class political activism
April 6
Politics in the age of TV
April 12
Small parties: big ambitions
April 19
Should godmen stay out of politics?
April 26
How safe are our schools and colleges?
May 3
Who's afraid of Mayawati?
May 10
Who is India's Obama?
May 24
Will Indian polity get a younger soul?
May 31
Ragging: From tradition to abuse
June 7
Racism: Indians as targets
June 14
Women and Affirmative Action
June 21
Royalty in the age of democracy
June 28
One nation, one Board: Is India ready?
July 5
The right to be gay
July 12
Royalty and Indian politics
August 2
Right to motherhood
August 16
Has India over-reacted to the swine-flu?
August 23
Political parties scared of history?
August 30
Religious symbols in a secular society
September 6
Is politics killing history and literature?
September 13
Austerity, Congress style?
September 20
Should everyone in India know Hindi?
September 27
Women in Army: Time for a greater role?
October 4
Gandhi's legacy: Are we too politically correct?
October 11
Is Mumbai no longer cosmopolitan?
October 25
The Maoist Muddle
October 25
Is a peace initiative with the Maoists possible
November 1
The Indira Gandhi legacy
November 8
Vande Mataram and Fatwa politics
November 15
National language: What's that?
November 22
26/11: Lessons learnt?
December 6
India's skin deep prejudice
December 13
Nation vs regionalism
December 20
Private lives, public gaze
December 27
Ruchika's case: Mockery of justice?
Date
Title
Topic
January 3
Best of We The People 2009
January 10
Is India soft on sexual misconduct?
Rape in India
January 17
Get a picture or save a life?
January 24
Is TV exploiting young children?
January 31
Mukesh Ambani, Montek at LSE debate
February 7
Mumbai and the idea of India
February 28
MF Husain: Let down by India?
March 7
Being Muslim in today's India?
March 14
Re-branding Modi?
March 28
"Salaam Namaste" to pre-marital sex?
April 4
Right to education: Quantity over quality?
April 11
Maoists vs the state
April 18
IPL: Indian Political League
May 16
Is globalisation a bad word?
May 23
Young politicians, old ideas?
May 30
India's maoist challenge
June 6
The death penalty debate
June 20
Is Twitter here to stay?
June 27
Office relationships: Harassment or consensual?
July 4
Government vs Army on the Armed Forces Act?
July 11
India's population: Boon or bane?
July 18
The language wars
July 25
Surrogacy: Exploiting the poor?
August 1
Commonwealth games: National shame?
August 8
India: The Twitter republic
August 15
Superbug: Bias against India?
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1
August 22
Is the 'real India' forgotten?
September 12
Pension for ex-Army men: A question of equality?
September 19
Ayodhya verdict: Time for closure?
September 26
Ayodhya: Is 'reconciliation' realistic?
October 24
India: Game for corruption?
October 31
Alimony and the modern woman
November 14
Is corruption in our roots?
November 21
Government show who is "The Big Boss"?
November 28
The new-age neta
December 5
The art of giving
December 19
Will WikiLeaks change diplomacy world over?
December 26
Binayak Sen: Targeted by the state?
Date
Title
Topic
January 2
Best of We The People 2010
January 16
Does India care for its soldiers?
January 23
Will books survive the digital age?
Jaipur Literature Festival
January 26
Army: Overused, under-appreciated?
January 30
Endgame in sight for 'Afghan-Pak' crisis?
February 20
Is the India story endangered by scams?
February 27
Is capital punishment deterrent for rapists?
March 13
The euthanasia debate
March 27
Ticket to India-Pakistan thaw?
April 10
The Tamil Nadu poll blockbuster
April 17
Being gay: The parents' story
April 24
The anatomy of a bribe
May 1
Maharaja in royal mess
May 15
Land wars: Farmers' rights vs industrialisation
May 22
Homecoming possible for pandits in J&K?
May 29
Women and power: Bucking the trend?
June 12
Army an option for Indian youth?
June 26
Viewer's choice: We the People on Gujarat quake
July 3
Neeraj Grover's parents on their son's murder
July 10
Does India need a separate prevention of communal violence bill?
July 17
Has Mumbai been numbed by terror?
July 24
Has spirituality turned into a profit industry?
July 31
Corruption kills the growth story?
August 11
Indian cinema: Hijacked by politics?
August 15
Fasting for change- Satyagraha or theatre?
August 21
Anna and the great Indian middle class
August 28
Anna's movement: The challenges & lessons
September 4
Copycat politics over mercy pleas?
September 11
Has India been numbed by terror?
September 25
Can you live on just ₹ 32 a day?
October 2
Gandhigiri in the age of violence
October 9
Telangan: An idea whose time has come?
October 16
Mayawati's Park: Extravaganza or empowerment?
October 23
Will right to recall make politicians accountable?
October 30
Does the army still need special powers in J&K?
November 6
Is social media changing human equations?
November 13
Love, sex and cinema
November 20
Terror errors: Weakening India's fight?
November 27
From argumentative India to intolerant India?
December 4
Has Parliament become a house of Adjournments?
December 11
The return of Anna Hazare
December 18
From Uphaar AMRI, is it a license to kill?
Date
Title
Topic
January 1
Democracy's midnight mayhem
January 15
Why does India still not have a national military memorial?
Indian Armed Forces
February 12
Age row: Ceasefire or lost battle?
February 18
Minority welfare or maximum politics?
February 26
The state in your bedroom?
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
March 8
Women's day: Substance or symbolism?
International Women's Day
March 18
India: No country for working women?
Women in India
March 25
Pornography or erotica: Who decides?
April 1
After the ceasefire: Lessons learnt?
April 15
Should the state negotiate with hostage takers?
April 22
Surrogacy: Outsourcing childbirth?
Commercial surrogacy in India
April 29
Rajya Sabha: House of Elders now House of Glamour?
Rajya Sabha members
May 6
Siachen: Time for a thaw?
Siachen conflict
May 7
Hillary Clinton on FDI, Mamata, Hafiz Saeed and outsourcing (special episode )
May 13
Are single sex institutions outdated?
June 3
The subsidies debate: Pro aam-aadmi or anti-growth?
Subsidies in India
June 10
'Bond'-ing doctors into duty?
June 17
The politics of minority quotas
Reservation in India
June 24
India: The big bazaar of organ trade?
Organ trade in India
July 1
President's pardon: The clemency debate
Pratibha Patil communes death sentences
July 8
Hitting cancer for a six
Interview with Yuvraj Singh
July 29
Mayhem at Manesar
Manesar violence July 2012
August 5
Sedition laws: Essential or archaic?
Sedition laws in India
August 12
India's steel frame: Still standing strong?
August 19
We the Olympians: A distant dream or within reach now?
India at the 2012 Summer Olympics
August 26
Is the government caught in a censorship web?
September 2
Riots and the rule of law
September 9
India-Pakistan: Prisoners of hostility?
September 16
Cellphone towers: India's safety check
September 23
Clinical trials: The India report
October 7
Euthanasia: Mercy killing or murder?
Euthanasia in India
November 11
Are religious traditions tilted against women?
Role of women in religion
November 18
Should the state fund political parties?
November 25
Internet freedom: In danger of being stifled?
December 2
Politics and the 'Great' Indian middle class
December 9
Time to re-think capital punishment?
Capital punishment in India
December 16
Moditva: Lessons for India?
December 23
Will capital punishment be a deterrent to rapists?
2012 Delhi gang rape case
Date
Title
Topic
January 1
Best of We The People 2012
January 6
Every woman's battle: The enemy within
Rape in India
January 13
Cinema: A cult or misogyny
Objectification of women in Indian cinema
January 20
Judiciary: symbol of hope and change for women?
Low conviction rate in rape cases in India
Date
Title
Topic
Note
March 15
India Fights Coronavirus
COVID-19 pandemic in India First edition without an audience due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
March 22
How India Fought Back Against Coronavirus
The Janata Curfew
March 29
Let Down by Lockdown?
COVID-19 lockdown in India
References [ edit ]
↑ Sudeshna, Devi (2019). "A Textual Analysis of the Television Talk Show We The People" Journal of Global Communication . 12 (1): 6. doi :10.5958/0976-2442.2019.00002.8 . ISSN 0974-0600 . S2CID 199312111 . Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2020-01-27 – via IndianJournals.com. ↑ Parameswaran, Radhika (2015-09-03). "Shaming the Nation on Public Affairs Television: Barkha Dutt tackles colorism on We the People" . Journalism Studies . 16 (5): 680–691. doi :10.1080/1461670X.2015.1054175 . ISSN 1461-670X . S2CID 142766089 . Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2020-01-27 . ↑ Khorana, Sukhmani (2014-08-01). "The Political is Populist: Talk Shows, Political Debates, and the Middle-Class Public Sphere in India" Media International Australia . 152 (1): 98–107. doi :10.1177/1329878X1415200111 . ISSN 1329-878X . S2CID 142413564 . Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2020-01-27 – via SAGE. ↑ CNN-IBN, NDTV bag TV awards The Hindu Archived November 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine ↑ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2008-12-04 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )
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