First, Udit Misra joins the podcast to help us make sense of India's record GDP growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year and what it says about the state of India's pandemic-struck economy.

Next, Bashaarat Masood joins us from Srinagar to discuss how the late Kashmiri separatist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, shaped the politics of Kashmir and what his death means for the future of the Hurriyat.  (14:03)

And finally, we over the latest updates on the Taliban. (21:24)