On February 18 in Chennai, a total of 292 players will be competing for just 61 available slots across the eight franchises

Host: Ananth Krishnan, China correspondent, The Hindu

Guest: Thomas K Thomas, Mumbai bureau chief for The Hindu Business Line

What does this agreement mean for the recent tensions along the LAC? Where does this leave other points of discord that remain unresolved? What are the next steps, and where do India and China go from here?

Guests: Jacob Koshy and Vijaita Singh

Listen to a conversation with lawyer Apar Guta of the Internet Freedom Foundation explaining the provisions of the IT Act behind Twitter's recent blocking of several accounts

Guest : Suhasini Haidar , Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Hindu

What does the future now hold for Aung San Suu Kyi?

Dr. Shahid Jameel, virologist and director, Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University, on how the country has fared so far with the vaccine rollout

We do a quick status check on the border situation with China, both about a clash that was recently reported and the continuing efforts at corps commander level talks to come to some kind of agreement on de-escalation.

Guest: Tanvi Madan, Senior Fellow Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution

Guest: Sushant Singh, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Asia-focused multilateral COVID-19 diplomatic initiatives?

Cases of bird avian influenza or bird flu have been reported from Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in recent weeks.

In conversation with historian Jeffrey A Engel on the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A batch of petitions in the Supreme Court opposing the proposed change in land usage of the Central Vista.

Morocco has become the fourth Arab country to normalise ties with Israel in five months.

Guests: Srinath Raghavan, Professor at Ashoka University; Senior Fellow at Carnegie India; Author of "The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia", and Suhasini Haidar, National Editor and Diplomatic Affairs Editor, The Hindu