March 1, 2007.  Interviewed on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin about the status of women in India  link to podcast

February 24, 2007. Interviewed by OMNI TV about India-Pakistan relations

January 8, 2007. Discussed the current situation in Iraq on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin

November 27, 2006. Discussed the vote in Parliament on Québécois as a nation on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin

April 19, 2006. Featured on Foreign Aid, CBC documentary aired on Ontario AM which hits southern Ontario, Ottawa Morning, Thunder Bay, Whitehorse. audio file

March 3, 2006. Discussion about China and India as rising world powers on TVO’s Diplomatic Immunity.

June 29, 2005. Discussion about current peace negotiations between India and Pakistan on OMNI.2 (South Asian TV)

May 24, 2004 Interview in the Toronto Star

IT-savvy politician’s defeat not a surprise, says York prof  
On May 24 in the Star, York political science Professor Ananya Mukherjee-Reed discussed the defeat of Indian cyber minister Chandrababu Naidu, a politician who wanted his state to become an information-technology superpower by the year 2020. While the Congress party's former-economist-turned-politician Manmohan Singh was sworn in as India 's first Sikh prime minister last week, analysts were still debating what went wrong for Naidu, said the Star. However, Naidu's defeat isn't much of a surprise, said Mukherjee-Reed. "Andhra Pradesh is known for its IT industry, but it's also known as the state where there were a lot of farmer suicides," she says. "In a sense it reflects what happened in the rest of India with the India Shining campaign. It was a very narrow, urban, highly skilled middle class – which defines the IT sector – who felt the shine. If [Naidu] had paid attention to the degree to which the rural economy was suffering, it might've been different. That was a basic miscalculation," she said.
       She also blamed an unbalanced economic policy. "In India, for the last 50 years, we have this classical theory of economic development, that if you develop a very advanced, modern corporate core, the rest of the economy in the periphery will be pulled by the core into its orbit. It's the very famous trickle down theory. But the trickle down theory doesn't work until you have very strong redistributive policies."  
       In a May 23 article in the Toronto Star, Mukherjee-Reed said the recent election in India is a strong vote for secularism after years under the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party. "What it proves is that in public life, ordinary Indians don’t really care what the faith, religion or ethnicity of their leaders is.... What matters is who he is in terms of his qualifications. It remains to be seen if Dr. Singh is willing to seize the moment and steer Congress towards secular, democratic and pro-poor politics," she said.

May 19, 2004. Discussion on the left parties in India, The Current, CBC.

May 15 2004. Interview with respect to the stunning election results in India, CBC Newsworld’s national "CBC News: Business Weekly"

May 13, 2004. Interview in the Toronto Star

Election means a return to secularism in India
Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, professor of political science at York University, is happy about the ousting of India’s ruling party, although she's less sure about the winning Congress Party led by Sonya Gandhi, reported the Toronto Star May 14. "What is important is why the BJP and its allies are suffering this stunning defeat," she said. "They called the election early because they felt they simply could return to power by the ‘feel good’ factor. And their main campaign line was ' India shining.' But many Indians didn't feel good or feel the shine." In fact, she said, most Indians saw no benefit from the economic reforms and establishment of an Indian Silicon Valley. "The prosperity of that was only shared by a minority of Indians. The majority of Indians didn't even have the necessities of life. A huge number of Indians live under $1 a day." Mukherjee-Reed suggested the return of Congress means a return to "secularism in India." "It may not be perfect secularism, but at least the official agenda is not a religious agenda, and that is actually a good development," she said.

May 13, 2004. Commentary on the Indian election on CBC Newsworld’s national "NBN Early Edition" and CBC Radio’s regional shows in Sudbury, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Ottawa and St. John’s.

June 9, 2004. Comment on the United Nations resolution approving the plan to establish an elected government in Iraq on CBC Radio’s "Commentary"

MARCH 25, 2002 Counterspin, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), "India in Crisis"