Ranjay Gulati

We put the big petrol barrel with a, you know, portrait picture of Mr. President on it in the middle of the mainstream.

There was a hole on the top.

So you could literally come, put the coin in, get the baseball bat and hit his face.

Sounds loud.

We were sitting in a nearby cafe having coffee, and there was a clue of people waiting to do this lovely thing.

Well, that's just the beginning of the show.

The real show starts when the police appears.

What they will do?

Arrest the shoppers with kids?

Doesn't make sense.

Of course, you could bet they've done the most stupid thing.

They arrested a borrower.

And now the picture of the smashed face on the barrel with the policeman dragging them to the police car, that was the best day for the photographers from newspapers that they ever will have.

Thank you, Shankar.

It's a pleasure to be back.

You know, Navalny is a kind of a very interesting story and it follows a very interesting arc as well.

You know, he starts as an anti-corruption lawyer, critical of power, but still within the system.

And he then decides that he's really going to pivot from there into exposing corruption at the highest levels, you know, and he then becomes part of the opposition story here.

And then things really ramp up for him.

Arrest, harassment, assassination attempt.