Amanpour: Narendra Taneja, Todd Young, Soma Sara, Kamilah Willingham and Cornel West

As India sets a covid world record with nearly 380,000 new infections, Christiane Amanpour asks Narendra Taneja, the national spokesman for Prime Minister Modi's ruling BJP Party, about the danger of elections continuing amidst the crisis. Republican Senator Todd Young discusses President Biden's speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday and his first 100 days in office. Kamilah Willingham, feminist writer and activist, and Soma Sara, founder of everyones-invited.org, talk about this new platform on which thousands have shared their stories of sexism, misogyny and sexual violence. Walter Isaacson talks with philosopher, scholar and civil rights activist Cornel West about why classics must remain in the curriculum.

To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices