Bonus: Rep. Ro Khanna on what America owes India

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On a special bonus Worldly, Zack interviews Rep. Ro Khanna — the vice-chair of the House’s India Caucus — on the covid crisis in that country. They talk about how things got so bad in India and what it says about the state of India’s political institutions and democracy. Then they talk about the US response, where Rep. Khanna gives an inside view of how the Biden administration decided to increase its commitment to India — and makes the case for doing even more. They also reference a whole lot of political philosophy. References: Vox's Kelsey Piper wrote a piece about vaccine patents Amartya Sen's book Development as Freedom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special episode of Worldly, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:13.5	This week on the show, we covered the COVID crisis in India, which is currently the world's
0:18.8	worst outbreak, and the scale and the nature of the tragedy is almost unfathomable.
0:24.8	But we didn't cover everything that we wanted to talk about.
0:27.7	Such a complicated and such an important issue that we wanted to dedicate a special episode
0:32.5	to it.
0:33.5	And so today, we brought on Congressman Rocana, who is the vice chair of the House India Caucus,
0:40.8	to talk about what he's seeing and what he understands about the crisis and how to think
0:45.0	about what the U.S. can do to alleviate the suffering in India and in other countries
0:51.6	outside of our borders.
0:52.5	Congressman, it's really great to have you on.
0:54.8	It's great to be on.
0:55.8	Thank you for having me.
0:57.1	I want to start off by just sort of asking you, like we all know, just by reading the headlines
1:03.3	and looking at what's going on in the world, that things look bad in India.
1:07.0	But you're a member of government.
1:09.4	You pay really close attention to stuff.
1:11.0	From your point of view, just how bad does it look?
1:15.2	They're horrific.
1:16.6	In my lifetime, I've never seen anything like that.
1:19.0	I mean, I have family in India who was affected.
1:23.2	My dad's cousin unfortunately passed away.
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