09.04.2026running time: 35 minutes
Equator's Samanth Subramanian and the journalist Osman Samiuddin dive into one of world sport's most charged rivalries - India versus Pakistan in cricket - and explore the "geopolitical hot mess" that is cricket in South Asia today.
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02.04.2026running time: 33 minutes
In March, the Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer's family home in Beirut was bombed as part of the US-Israeli war on Iran. In an earlier time, she might have written about the destruction for a US publication. But as she tells Pankaj Mishra, she has stopped trying to explain the Middle East to Americans.
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26.03.2026running time: 37 minutes
Nesrine Malik talks to the historian Nikhil Pal Singh about US imperialist tendencies overseas, and how they’re inextricably bound up with its violence at home. Singh argues that the current Trump administration is reworking both foreign and domestic policy to create a single domain of impunity.
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19.03.2026running time: 20 minutes
Pankaj Mishra, Nesrine Malik and Mohsin Hamid introduce the birth and mission of Equator, the first season of the Equator podcast, and upcoming interviews with Amitav Ghosh, Naomi Klein and other guests.
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