Usually, manifestos exist on the sidelines of Indian politics – they are barely even read.

But for this election, the Congress manifesto is creating waves for its programme of social and economic equity. Prime Minister Modi has accused the Congress of wanting to "redistribute" the wealth of Hindus to Muslim – a point that fact checkers have said is false.

The Congress has also been criticised by many for being too aggressively "socialist" and attacking private property.

To explain and unpack what the Congress says about equity and redistribution, for Scroll Ideas, Shoaib Daniyal talks to Praveen Chakravarty, a key member of the party's manifesto committee.

Host: Shoaib Daniyal
Producer: Rahat Touhid

Tales of love jihad, Muslim appeasement, population growth and forced conversions are made up – yet are incredibly popular throughout India. Social media, journalists and even the prime minister have spread them.
In their new book "Love Jihad and Other Fictions", authors Sreenivasan Jain, Mariyam Alavi and Supriya Sharma apply the rules of journalism to bust some of the most damaging falsehoods.
On Scroll Ideas, Shoaib Daniyal speaks to Jain and Alavi to unpack the danger this poses to Indian democracy.
Producer: Karnika Kohli and Avinash Kumar
Host: Shoaib Daniyal

On this episode of Scroll Ideas, we discuss the vulnerabilities of the election process in India with Kannan Gopinathan.

Kannan Gopinathan was a member of the IAS between 2012 and 2019 and is now an activist. He has earlier studied and worked as an electronics engineer with a background in Very Large-Scale Integration design of integrated circuits.

Further reading: https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/...https://www.thehinducentre.com/the-ar... Host: Shoaib Daniyal Producer: Karnika Kohli