IN CONVERSATION WITH SALMAN KHURSHID: RT LAUNCHES SHOW WITH INDIA’S FORMER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER
MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 27, 2026 – RT India, the RT network’s latest TV channel which launched in December, kicks off its flagship geopolitical talk show In Conversation with Salman Khurshid. Hosted by India’s former external affairs minister, the program offers a rare window into how the world is understood by those who have helped shape it. The seasoned statesman draws on decades of experience with diplomacy, law, and international negotiations.
In the first episode, Salman Khurshid interviews Ram Madhav, the former general secretary of India’s ruling party BJP. “There is no reason for us to believe what the US or Europe thinks. They assume that what they believe should be the belief of the rest of the world,” Madhav said.
In Conversation with Salman Khurshid will air twice a month on RT.
RT India has also introduced a weekly podcast by Runjhun Sharma, the head of news at RT India – a deep dive into the most pressing global issues through the lens of India and Russia.
Earlier Dr. Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician, diplomat, author, and chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, featured in his show Imperial Receipts with Dr. Shashi Tharoor on RT India, a ten-episode series addressing historical amnesia, while prolific Indian actor and best-selling author Anupam Kher hosted Let’s Talk Bharat.
RT India began broadcasting from its studios in New Delhi, India in December 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin and RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan jointly launched the new channel during the president’s state visit to the country. Later this year, RT also plans to launch a dedicated Hindi-language news website, catering to over 500 million Hindi speakers in India.
RT’s first international channel launched in 2005, and today it is a global TV news network providing breaking stories, current affairs coverage, commentary and documentaries in eleven languages: English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Serbian, Chinese, Hindi, Portuguese, Indonesian and Russian; it also includes the multimedia news agency Ruptly. In 2025, RT became available to 950 million TV viewers in more than 100 countries around the globe. RT projects received more than 40 billion views online, almost twice as many as the year before.