This week’s Awful and Awesome episode with Rajyasree is loaded with entertainment and a little bit of gossip. Abhinandan and Rajyasree talk about Raazi, Mother’s Day ads, and Rajyasree talks to Abhinandan about the celebrity wedding and engagement that flooded everyone’s social media feed, and lots more.The podcast starts with Abhinandan interviewing Meghna Gulzar, where she talks about her new film as a Director and Writer, Raazi. On being asked about the kind of positive reviews the film is ge...
May 15, 2018•95 hr 52 min
अपरिहार्य कारणों से इस हफ्ते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री चर्चा रिकॉर्ड नहीं हो सकी. इसका हमें खेद है. इस बार हम कर्नाटक चुनाव पर पिछले हफ्ते की एन एल चर्चा में हुई विस्तृत बातचीत का अंश पेश कर रहे हैं, इस वादे के साथ कि अगले हफ्ते फिर से एक नई चर्चा के साथ हम अपने श्रोताओं, शुभचिंतकों के साथ होंगे. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 11, 2018•71 hr 55 min
On this week’s NL Hafta, Abhinandan is joined by Anand Vardhan and Raman Kirpal, with Manisha joining in on the phone from Bangalore.The discussion is kicked off with the Karnataka elections, with Manisha weighing in on the scenario at the local level, saying that the Mandya district held strong support for Kumaraswamy. Talking about the massive coverage of the elections, Anand attributes it to the proliferation of media, and the resulting “over-coverage” of certain issues, adding that it leads ...
May 11, 2018•1 hr 20 min
This week’s Just Sports comes to a full package of cricket and football trivia. With the English Premier League and the IPL on, Samar and Rahul just cannot seem to stop talking about anything else!“Few unusual choices made” by the Indian cricket team that’s been selected for England. Samar says “Ambati Rayudu is a strange choice because it’s just been the IPL, he has performed… you dropped Rahane because he has not performed in the IPL”.Rahul expresses his skepticism and says, “It’s where he has...
May 10, 2018•22 hr 28 min
This week’s Awful and Awesome episode ends the trauma of having “nothing good to watch or read”.Abhinandan’s favourite actress, Madhuri Dixit, takes the spotlight with the trailer of her upcoming Marathi film Bucket List. While Rajyasree says “she’s pretty much playing her age… her face moves”, Abhinandan comments on the issue of "dramatic" acting by “80s’ actresses when they act in 2018” and also says “this trailer is a really good trailer… although it seems like a regular, feel-good film, the ...
May 08, 2018•17 hr
On this podcast of Reporters Without Orders, The Caravan's Nikita Saxena joins the panel to discuss her recent articles on special CBI judge Loya's death. The panel also discusses Member of Parliament Rajeev Chandrasekhar-owned Asianet News and the change in its 'posturing' over time.Amit Bhardwaj, who is currently in Karnataka covering the upcoming state elections, joins the panel over the phone to talk about RSS' Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, who is a key player in BJP's Karnataka election campaign...
May 08, 2018•95 hr 46 min
On Awful and Awesome this week, we bring to you from the archives Abhinandan in conversation with Sabrina Dhawan, who has written Monsoon Wedding, co-written Kaminey, Ishqiya and Rangoon and been a consultant for Haider. She also teaches screenwriting at New York University. The movie Monsoon Wedding shot her to stardom at a very young age in her career.They talk about the factors that make a film successful, what works and what does not.Films like Kaminey and Ishqiya did well at the box office ...
May 04, 2018•53 hr 5 min
On this week’s NL Hafta, a day that also happened to be World Press Freedom Day, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Madhu Trehan, Raman Kirpal, and Diksha Madhok, journalist and Digital Director of The Print. The panel was also joined by Newslaundry reporter Amit Bhardwaj who was on call from Mangalore to speak about the Karnataka elections.The panel gets together to discuss issues in the current Indian political system, like the upcoming polls, the state of the Indian judiciary, and more.Abhinandan...
May 04, 2018•1 hr 31 min
कर्नाटक चुनाव, प्रेस फ्रीडम में खिसकता भारत, बिहार के जहानाबाद में लड़की से छेड़छाड़ की घटना, अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी में जिन्ना की तस्वीर पर विवाद, न्यूज़ 18 के एंकर सुमित अवस्थी का पैनलिस्ट पर हाथ चलाना रहे इस हफ्ते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री चर्चा के मुख्य विषय.चर्चा के विशिष्ट थे इंडिया न्यूज़ के डिप्टी एडिटर सुशांत सिन्हा और न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री के ओपिनियन राइटर आनंद वर्धन. कर्नाटक से फोन लाइन पर जुड़े न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री के संवाददाता अमित भारद्वाज. चर्चा का संचालन किया न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री के कार्यकारी संपादक अतुल ...
May 04, 2018•68 hr 10 min
This week on Just Sports, Samar Khan and Rahul Puri discuss the impending 2018 UEFA Champions League final and the IPL.The duo starts off by talking about Liverpool’s unexpected ascent to the finals. Samar disagrees with the general opinion on how Liverpool got there - “I don’t think it was a favourable draw…. they played good football. You don’t reach the finals because you’re lucky, you reach the finals because you deserve to.”Although Rahul admits Liverpool had a relatively easier group this ...
May 04, 2018•28 hr 48 min
On this podcast of Reporters Without Orders, we have a guest joining the panel. A reporter from Catch News, Priyata Brajabasi, joins the team to discuss recent remarks made by BJP leaders, fake news conviction in Malaysia, 2018 World Press Freedom Index and more.Cherry discusses the comments made by Biplab Deb, chief minister of Tripura, who was recently summoned by Modi for making controversial remarks. She also talks about the comments made by Kavinder Gupta, Jammu and Kashmir's deputy chief m...
May 01, 2018•69 hr 45 min
अंतरराष्ट्रीय संस्था रिपोर्टर्स सां फ्रांतिए (रिपोर्टर्स विदाउट बॉर्डर) की ताज़ा रिपोर्ट में अंतरराष्ट्रीय प्रेस फ्रीडम इंडेक्स में पिछले साल के मुक़ाबले भारत दो पायदान नीचे खिसककर 138वें नंबर पर चला गया है. सुनिए इस विषय पर क्या सोचते हैं पत्रकार. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 30, 2018•56 hr 30 min
आसाराम को आजीवन कारावास, सरोज खान का कास्टिंग काउच को लेकर विवादित बयान, कर्नाटक चुनाव में रेड्डी बंधुओं को भाजपा का उम्मीदवार बनाया जाना, मुख्य न्यायाधीश के खिलाफ महाभियोग के निहितार्थ और संजय दत्त के जीवन पर बन रही फिल्म का ट्रेलर इस हफ्ते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री चर्चा के मुख्य विषय रहे.चर्चा में इस बार दो मेहमान शामिल हुए. वरिष्ठ फिल्म समीक्षक और पत्रकार अजय ब्रह्मात्मज और भारतीय जन संचार संस्थान के एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर आनंद प्रधान. इसके अलावा न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री के संवाददाता अमित भारद्वाज और कार्यकारी संपादक ...
Apr 27, 2018•77 hr 22 min
In this NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan come together to discuss Asaram’s conviction, Saroj Khan’s statement, Karnataka elections, formation of Bahujan Azad Party, Yashwant Sinha quitting BJP, and more.On the apparent absence of violence after Asaram’s conviction, Madhu said: “I don’t think everything is peaceful. I read the judge had to go into hiring police. I read there’s been a reaction from the followers”. While opining on capital pun...
Apr 27, 2018•54 hr 19 min
NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here's a little sneak peek of the complete episode where Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan come together to discuss Asaram’s conviction, Saroj Khan’s statement, Karnataka elections, formation of Bahujan Azad Party, Yashwant Sinha quitting BJP, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 27, 2018•56 hr 42 min
Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their weekly roundup of sports. They share their views on the legacy left behind by Arsene Wenger, Gautam Gambhir stepping down from captaincy, the rediscovery of MS Dhoni and more.On Arsene Wenger, Rahul says: “I think he is the last of the managers that you will see have a role like that. That's for the clubs today, they limit the managers' authority.” Adding to it, Samar feels, “It's a lot to do with the new owners. People who are coming with new money,...
Apr 26, 2018•25 hr 58 min
On Awful and Awesome this week, Abhinandan and Rajyasree are joined by our very own Deepanjana Pal (DJ). This time, she's back as a guest to talk about her first novel Hush a Bye Baby, a thriller about a gynaecologist, Dr Nandita Rai, who is accused of conducting sex-selective abortions.Sekhri and Sen question DJ about her choice of genre. In response to which, Pal says, “So, at a very basic level, I think it’s fair to say that Hush a Bye Baby is kind of in the middle of many genres. It is a thr...
Apr 24, 2018•60 hr 16 min
On this podcast of Reporters Without Orders, we have Ramnath Goenka award-winner Rahul Kotiyal joining the panel. Currently a freelancer, he has earlier been with Scroll.in's Hindi website Satyagraha and Tehelka. The panel discusses the issues of death penalty, the Dainik Jagran article on Kathua rape, Judge Loya verdict and more.Rahul describes the story that won him the Ramnath Goenka award for Hindi reporting under the print category. “It was a two-part series on organisations in north India ...
Apr 24, 2018•34 hr 56 min
सुप्रीम कोर्ट के चीफ जस्टिस दीपक मिश्रा के खिलाफ सात विपक्षी दलों द्वारा महाभियोग लाने का प्रस्ताव, जज लोया की संदिग्ध मौत की जांच की मांग वाली याचिकाओं को सुप्रीम कोर्ट द्वारा खारिज किया जाना, प्रधानमंत्री का विदेश दौरा और वेस्टमिंस्टर सेंट्रल हॉल में उनका साक्षात्कार और मक्का मस्जिद केस के आरोपी असीमानंद समेत सभी आरोपियों को कोर्ट द्वारा बरी किया जाना इस हफ्ते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री चर्चा के प्रमुख विषय रहे.चर्चा में शामिल रहे ओपिनियन राइटर आनंद वर्धन, कैच न्यूज़ के असिस्टेंट एडिटर चारू कार्तिकेय और स...
Apr 20, 2018•10 hr 49 min
This week’s NL Hafta brings together our in-house team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal along with Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, Associate Editor, Scroll. The panel discussed a range of issues -- the Supreme Court calling the public interest litigation for an independent investigation to Justice Loya’s death ‘frivolous’, the continuing outrage over the Kathua case, the Mecca Masjid blast verdict and a lot more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 20, 2018•1 hr 29 min
A snippet of NL Hafta for non-subscribers.NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here's a little sneak peek of the complete episode where our in-house team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal is joined by Rohan Venkataramakrishnan, Associate Editor, Scroll. The panel discussed a range of issues -- the Supreme Court calling the public interest litigation for an independent investigation to Justice Loya’s death ‘frivolous’, the continuing outrage over...
Apr 20, 2018•47 hr 57 min
Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back this week with their latest round-up of sports. And they have a lot in store -- Manchester City winning the Premier League, Indian Premier League (and Virat Kohli’s fate), the Formula One races and more.For Puri, Manchester City’s win was something that was just bound to happen sometime, and the title was, indeed, well deserved. The part that money might have had a play in giving the team an upper hand is undeniable, but both agree that money cannot be enough. ...
Apr 18, 2018•37 hr 30 min
The Awful and Awesome is back this week to give you a dose of the latest pop cultural updates. Rajyasree and Abhinandan take you through three Hollywood trailers, two films (A Quiet Place and October), the National Awards and Beyonce’s performance at Coachella.Starting with ‘A Quiet Place’, the duo believed it wasn’t half as good as the trailer promised. Regardless, both Sen and Sekhri did appreciate the skill required to direct and act in a horror film with minimum dialogue. Abhinandan says, “I...
Apr 17, 2018•37 hr 17 min
On this podcast of Reporters Without Orders, we have a surprise guest joining the panel. A reporter from The Quint, Meghnad Bose, joins the panel to discuss the Kathua rape case, fire at a Rohingya refugee camp, Rahul Gandhi’s midnight march and more.Meghnad tells us about the story that he broke on CBSE class 12 exams wherein the marks were being unfairly moderated. “A data scientist had observed a very odd marking pattern that an unbelievably high number of students in CBSE were getting the nu...
Apr 17, 2018•16 hr 29 min
जम्मू-कश्मीर कठुआ और यूपी के उन्नाव में बलात्कार की घटना और आरोपियों को सत्ता का संरक्षण, पश्चिम बंगाल में पंचायत चुनावों के स्थगित किए जाने की मांग को लेकर हिंसा, राहुल गांधी और प्रधानमंत्री का उपवास, डेटा लीक के मामले में फेसबुक मखिया मार्क जुकरबर्ग की कांग्रेस में पेशी, कुमार विश्वास को आम आदमी पार्टी के राजस्थान प्रभारी से हटाया जाना व अन्य मुद्दे इस हफ्ते न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री चर्चा के प्रमुख विषय रहे.चर्चा में शामिल रहे वरिष्ठ पत्रकार जितेन्द्र कुमार, न्यूज़ नेशन के अभिषेक पराशर और न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री...
Apr 13, 2018•57 hr 45 min
In this episode of NL Hafta, our in-house team of Madhu Trehan, Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Raman Kirpal and Manisha Pande is joined by NDTV news editor Madhusudan Srinivas.The team discusses the grisly case of rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua in Jammu and another case of rape in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao in which a Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly is accused.Manisha, while pointing at the chilling details of the charge sheet in the Kathua case, says the...
Apr 13, 2018•59 hr 21 min
NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here's a little sneak peek of the complete episode where we discuss Kathua, Unnao and the politics around the two rape cases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 13, 2018•50 hr 49 min
Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their weekly roundup of sports. They discuss the Champions League, and share their analysis of teams playing in the Indian Premier League. Also, there is much talk about the controversy surrounding Harry Kane and performance of Indian athletes at the Commonwealth Games.Samar expresses his views on Liverpool's victory against Manchester City in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. “Hats off to Liverpool because they went out there, defended pretty wel...
Apr 12, 2018•37 hr 35 min
On this podcast of Reporters Without Orders, the panel is joined by Ishan Kukreti, a reporter from Down to Earth magazine, to discuss the Kathua rape case, Kashmir killings, Salman Khan’s conviction and more.Nidhi comments on how the mainstream media did not have any coverage on the lawyers’ protest in the Kathua case, "When the charge sheet was filed by the crime branch, the lawyers protested against the same. There was no front-page coverage in the mainstream media. Only Times of India reporte...
Apr 11, 2018•28 hr 27 min
The Awful and Awesome has a lot in store this week. A special treat for all book lovers is Rajyasree Sen’s interaction with Seema Goswami, author of ‘Race Course Road’, followed by a discussion on the IPL, Salman Khan, ‘Missing’, and Russell Crowe’s genius.Starting off with the book, Goswami’s past work experience with ABP and Sunday Magazine is reflected in her approach towards politics in this fictional political thriller, which starts off with the assassination of Prime Minister Birendra Prat...
Apr 10, 2018•30 hr 16 min
