This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by author and journalist Hridayesh Joshi. Hridayesh begins by talking about his book, Rage of the River , which analysed the Kedarnath disaster. On the uncertainty surrounding the cause of the recent disaster in Uttarakhand, and its ramifications, he stresses the need for an “early warning system” as well as a robust disaster management response. To listen to the full episode , subs...
Feb 13, 2021•23 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Vivek Kaul, an author and journalist. Starting off with the union budget, which was presented on February 1, Vivek says the government has “cleaned up the expenditure side of the budget”. He also explains what “health and wellbeing” refers to, and just how the government’s push for “atmanirbhar” will play out. To listen to the full episode , subscribe to Newslaundry . Hosted ...
Feb 06, 2021•23 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of the Caravan magazine. The discussion starts off with the farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day. Hartosh says, “I was not surprised that the route was broken on the morning of the rally. Anybody who was following the protests with a degree of closeness knew this was going to be happening.” To listen to the full episode, subscribe to Newslaund...
Jan 30, 2021•28 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Aunindyo Chakravarty, a former senior managing editor at NDTV India and NDTV Profit who currently works with NewsClick . The discussion begins with the transcripts of the purported WhatsApp chats between Republic ’s Arnab Goswami and former BARC CEO Partho Dasgupta. Abhinandan says, “I think Arnab hasn’t denied these chats and he has had more than enough time to. Neither have any ...
Jan 23, 2021•34 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by former Newslaundry reporter Rahul Kotiyal, who currently works with Dainik Bhaskar . Starting off with new developments in the farmer protests at the borders of Delhi, Raman talks about how the Supreme Court’s order to stay the implementation of the farm laws might impact the protests. The conversation also spans WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, the recent stock trading fraud by a C...
Jan 16, 2021•24 min
This week on NL Hafta, it's an all- Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam. The conversation starts with the big news of Trump supporters storming the Capitol in Washington DC. Abhinandan and Raman discuss the news coverage and the speech Trump made prior to the siege. The panelists also discuss the stand that the American media took on the issue, the attack on journalists, and how social media banned Trump. To listen to the ...
Jan 09, 2021•25 min
This week on NL Hafta, it's an all-Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Jayashree Arunachalam. The conversation starts with Mehraj explaining how the recently concluded District Development Council elections in Kashmir were aimed primarily at "depoliticising" the region's politics. To listen to the full episode, subscribe to Newslaundry . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 02, 2021•27 min
This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Priyanka Pulla, an independent journalist, and Jammi N Rao, an independent public health physician. The conversation begins with the detection of new strains of Covid in the UK and South Africa. Jammi points out that the two variants are “very different” with different mutations. He believes it was the “hard work of the scientists” that led to it being found in the UK first,...
Dec 26, 2020•26 min
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kripal and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Patricia Mukhim, the editor of the Shillong Times . The conversation begins with Patricia explaining why she resigned from the Editors Guild of India. The guild had shown her no support when she was targeted for questioning the authorities over inaction in a case of ethnic discrimination and violence in Meghalaya. She also explains the importance of the Bodoland Territorial Council in protecting th...
Dec 19, 2020•23 min
Timecodes 2:37 - Headlines 6:08 - Farmer's Protest 21:59 - Arvind Kejriwal on House Arrest 30:48 - Love Jihad 35:15 - Central Vista Project 50:44 - Jallikattu Goes For Oscar 52:35 - DGCI Asks Serum And Bharat Biotech For More Data And NDTV Fake News 1:09:50 - Love Jihad 1:13:21 - Subscriber Mails 1:26:55 - Recommendations This week Newslaundry panel’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by Asmita Nandy, a journalist with The Quint . The conversatio...
Dec 12, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Timecodes 04:35 - Headlines 09:15 - Farmer protests 13:01 - Media coverage of farmer protests 1:04:03 - Rajinikanth to launch political party in January 1:05:43 - UN secretary general Antonio Gutteres’ speech on the environment 1:09:26 - Amit Malviya's tweet flagged on Twitter 1:22:20 - Subscriber mails 1:43:13 - Recommendations This week on NL Hafta, it’s an all- Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, Raman Kirpal, and our reporter Nidhi Suresh, who has been cover...
Dec 05, 2020•1 hr 53 min
Timecodes 4:14 - Headlines 7:51 - Cyclone Nivar hits Chennai and Puducherry 14:43 - Kerala withdraws Police Act amendment 28:57 - Farmer protests 44:05 - Jallikattu goes to the Oscars 47:24 - UP brings ‘love jihad’ ordinance 1:12:15 - ED summons Shiv Sena MLA 1:16:57 - Subscriber mail 1:27:47 - Sushil Modi accuses Lalu Prasad Yadav of running political show from behind bars 1:32:23 - Recommendations This week on NL Hafta, it is an all-Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman ...
Nov 28, 2020•1 hr 45 min
Timecodes 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 11:18 - The current race for vaccines 28:22 - Freedom of speech and state of Indian media 01:04:12 - Subscriber letters 01:20:39 - India not being part of the RCEP 01:27:53 - Chitra and Smita’s recommendations 01:36:52 - Subscriber letters 01:59:21 - Recommendations In this week’s Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Smita Prakash, editor-in-chief of ANI , and Chitra Subramaniam, journalist and co-foun...
Nov 21, 2020•2 hr 4 min
Timecodes 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 08:50 - Biden’s win in the US presidential election 42:04 - Arnab’s Goswami’s arrest and bail, and freedom of speech 01:10:08 - Subscriber letters 01:41:42 - Recommendations This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Joanna Slater, the India bureau chief of the Washington Post . Starting off with the US presidential election and Trump’s pushback against Biden winning, Joanna says the...
Nov 14, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Timestamps 03:16 - Headlines 05:31 - Bihar election 40:48 - Arnab Goswami arrested by Mumbai police 01:03:56 - France and Vienna attacks 01:04:48 - Subscriber mails 01:06:16 - France And Vienna attacks 01:10:17 - Recommendations 01:11:13 - Subscriber mails 01:12:46 - France and Vienna attacks 01:35:43 - Subscriber mails 01:57:39 - US presidential election 02:00:48 - Recommendations This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj Lone are joined by Arfa Khanum, ...
Nov 07, 2020•2 hr 6 min
Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 10:09 - The shooting at Munger and Bihar's election dynamics 33:02 - Subscriber letters 41:54 - The pope's statement on same-sex civil unions 45:55 - College student’s murder in Faridabad, media coverage 58:47 - Subscriber letters 01:01:49 - The 2+2 meet, Indian-Americans’ influence on the US election 01:06:57 - Controversial ABVP leader appointed to AIIMS Madurai board 01:13:11 - Subscriber letters 01:29:17 - France's culture of mockery and its rel...
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 59 min
Help us understand what you like, or dislike, about NL Hafta before it goes behind the paywall again. Take the survey here . This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’ s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Mehraj D Lone are joined by independent journalist Rohini Mohan. The panelists discuss Zee News refusing to reveal its sources to the Delhi High Court with regard to its reporting on the Delhi riots. Abhinandan asks if it’s time to revisit long-established traditions like freedom of sp...
Oct 24, 2020•1 hr 52 min
Help us understand what you like, or dislike, about NL Hafta before it goes behind the paywall again. Take the survey here . This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’ s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist Sudipto Mondal. The conversation kicks off with the panelists discussing the Hyderabad floods. Jayashree talks about how flooding is often an annual problem in some states but it’s never solved because this isn’t a “sexy” issue. Moving on...
Oct 17, 2020•1 hr 48 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’ s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Kiruba Munusamy, Supreme Court advocate and activist. The conversation kicks off with Kiruba explaining the project she’s working on now, researching caste. She points out how a series of Supreme Court judgements, including as recent as 2018, dealt with cases of violence against Dalits by deciding against the Dalit community and the victims. Abhinandan asks whether the h...
Oct 10, 2020•2 hr 10 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Nisha Susan, journalist, author and founder of The Ladies Finger . The conversation begins with the Hathras rape. Manisha details the suffering of the victim’s family at the hands of the authorities, especially the police’s forced cremation of the body. The panel agrees that this would not have happened so unceremoniously had the victim belonged to an upper caste. Abhinandan and ...
Oct 03, 2020•1 hr 51 min
This week on NL Hafta, the usual team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by Newslaundry ’s Jayashree Arunachalam and author Chetan Bhagat. The discussion starts off with the economic slowdown in India. Chetan says, “India attempted one of the strictest lockdowns. It’s expected that we will also have the biggest contraction.” He points out that fiscal measures are needed to distribute wealth while also liberalising the economy for businesses with moves ...
Sep 26, 2020•2 hr 3 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Raman Kirpal are joined by Abantika Ghosh, journalist with ThePrint and Revati Laul, an independent journalist and author of The Anatomy of Hate . The discussion begins with the current situation of Covid-19 in India—from the sero surveys to the possibility of a vaccine in a few months and if it will even be reliable. Abantika pointing towards the failure of the lockdown says,“The claim that lockdown saved lives is not accurate.” The pan...
Sep 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, and Raman Kirpal are joined by M. K. Venu, founding editor of The Wire to discuss the recession, the state of the media, and everything that happened this week. The panel discusses and debates the possible paths of India’s economic recovery, whether the government’s approach to the lockdown made things worse, and why India has experienced greater negative impacts due to the coronavirus than other global economi...
Sep 12, 2020•1 hr 54 min
On this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Patricia Mukhim, editor of Shillong Times . Patricia opens the conversation by providing insight into Meghalaya’s maternal and neonatal mortality crisis. She speaks about her personal experiences in working to create awareness about contraception, reproductive rights, and family planning in rural parts of the state, and the “vicious cycle” of malnutrition that is one of the princip...
Sep 05, 2020•1 hr 58 min
This week’s episode of NL Hafta features an all-star panel of Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal. They are joined by Banjot Kaur, health and public policy correspondent for Down To Earth magazine. The conversation begins with a round-up of Covid developments from the past weeks, including progress being made in India and abroad towards the production of a suitable vaccine. Banjot addresses common misconceptions about vaccine implementa...
Aug 29, 2020•1 hr 50 min
This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News . First up, the panel discusses the Wall Street Journal report on political partisanship within Facebook India. The panelists talk about Facebook’s “special relationship” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, how news dissemination has changed over the past decade, and whether social media should be considered a public service. Manisha reflects on Facebook’s infl...
Aug 22, 2020•1 hr 47 min
In this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of the Caravan magazine. The conversation begins with an analysis of the events surrounding last week’s attacks on three Caravan journalists while they were interviewing residents in Northeast Delhi’s Subhash Mohalla. One of the journalists, a woman, was sexually harassed. “They were taking photographs out in the street, not in some...
Aug 15, 2020•2 hr 9 min
In this week’s episode, the in-house panel featuring Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kripal is joined by Mayank Shekhar, a film critic and recipient of the ‘Ramnath Goenka Award. He’s also the author of Amazon’s bestselling book, ‘ Name Place Animal Thing ’ and also has a podcast titled ‘Sit With Hitlist’ The discussion begins with the problematic coverage of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and how it has now transformed into a political issue. Mayank says, “It’s a toxic mix of everythin...
Aug 08, 2020•1 hr 45 min
In this week’s Newslaundry’s panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kripal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suraj Yengde, an award winning scholar, author, and activist in the field of caste, race, and ethnicity studies and labour migration in the Global-south. Currently, he is a senior research fellow at Harvard-Kennedy School. Suraj has also been nominated for the ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ and is a recipient of the ‘Dr.Ambedkar Social Justice Award’ in 2019 and the ‘Rohith Vemula Schol...
Aug 01, 2020•2 hr 19 min
In this week’s NL Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande are joined by Sushanta Talukdar, editor of NEZINE , an online magazine focusing on India’s Northeast region. The discussion starts off with the Assam floods, which has affected over 28 lakh people so far. Floods are a recurring issue during the monsoons in Assam, but the government has still not found a way to contain the toll it takes. “The problem is, people forget about the Assam floods af...
Jul 25, 2020•1 hr 43 min
