NL Hafta

This week on Hafta, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal are joined by Anuradha Nagaraj, founder of The Migration Story , and Arghya Sengupta, Founder and Research Director at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.    Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance from Sourav and Abhay Kumar. Sound by Anil Kumar Hosted o...

This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Bashir Ali Abbas, Research Associate at Council for Strategic and Defence Research (CSDR) and Amit Kumar, executive editor of East Mojo .    Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance from Sourav and Abhay Kumar. Sound by...

This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute . The panel dives into the high-stakes 2026 assembly elections across Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry.   Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Manisha Pande are joined by The New York Times journalist Mujib Mashal and Aishwaria Sonavane, research analyst for Pakistan studies at the Takshashila Institution. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance from Priyali Dhingra and Abha...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by independent journalist Nidhi Suresh and Mridul Dudeja, a freelance technologist who has been engaged with queer-trans community spaces in Mumbai and across India for over 15 years.   Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey w...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan discuss three big themes: Nitish Kumar’s succession politics in Bihar, religion creeping into sport, and the ethics of euthanasia. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance from Saif Ekram and A...

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri,  Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by AFP ’s chief US correspondent Shaun Tandon and Aditya Ramanathan, research fellow at Takshila Institution. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with Production assistant by Saif Ekram. Sound by Anil Kumar...

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by academic and columnist Fahad Zuberi and Kallol Bhattacherjee, the foreign affairs editor of The Hindu . Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and subscriber letters. Produced by Amit Pandey & Priyali Dhingra Sound by Anil Kumar  Hosted on Acast. See aca...

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Amba Kak, a tech policy expert and researcher, and Alex Travelli, the South Asia business correspondent for The New York Times . Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and subscriber letters. Produced by Ashish Anand & Amit Pandey. Sound by Anil Kumar  Ho...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by filmmaker Sudhir Mishra and senior journalist Arati Jerath. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and subscriber letters. Produced by Amit Pandey Assistant production by Ashish Sound design by Anil...

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by musician and author T.M. Krishna and defence analyst Ajai Shukla for a conversation that spans Parliament flashpoints, billionaire ownership in journalism, and the deeper cultural fight over India’s national symbols. The panel opens with a discussion around the furore in Parliament over fo...

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by journalist Nikhil Inamdar and Sudipto Mondal, executive editor of The News Minute . Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey, with assistant production by Ashish ,Sound by Anil Kumar Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist and entrepreneur Govindraj Ethiraj.  The discussion opens up with the recently concluded World Economic Forum held in Davos. Abhinandan sharply questions the performative nature of Indian participation at the forum, criticising chief ministers for announcing Memorandums of Un...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by Chander Shekhar Luthra, a veteran sports journalist, and Suhasini Haidar, diplomatic affairs editor of The Hindu .  Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey, with assistant production by Saurav Sound by Anil Kumar H...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Raman Kirpal are joined by Ishaan Tharoor, a foreign affairs columnist at The Washington Post and Advocate Vrinda Grover.  Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey, with assistant production by Ashish Anand. Sound by Anil Kumar  Hosted on...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by Kallol Bhattacherjee, Senior Assistant Editor at The Hindu . Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this special year-ender episode, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande and The News Minute ’s Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna are joined by columnist and media critic Santosh Desai.   The conversation begins with a wrap of the Indian media ecosystem this year. Santosh says, “Institutions are struggling to retain credibility and resist pressure.” Dhanya argues that ma...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Development economist Reetika Khera & ESPN ’s Anirudhh Menon.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hafta , Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute and Anupam Manur, professor at the Takshashila Institution.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

This week, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Shardool Katyayan and Raman Kirpal are joined by Medianama founder and editor Nikhil Pahwa and senior journalist Maya Mirchandani. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by content creator Meghnad S and Pooja Prasanna of The News Minute . Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by journalist and author Rahul Pandita and The News Minute’ s Sudipto Mondal. The discussion begins with Rahul’s new novel, Our Friends in Good Houses , and then turns to the recent killing of Maoist commander Madvi Hidma in Andhra Pradesh. Rahul recalls meeting the man who recruited Hidma as a chil...

In this special NL Hafta Live episode, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Raman Kirpal were joined by The Hindu ’s Sobhana K Nair and senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury to decode the Bihar poll results. On the sweeping mandate for the NDA, Anand spoke about Nitish Kumar’s enduring appeal, noting that he “maximises his EBC base better than anyone else. He knows how t...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by The Hindu journalist Sobhana K Nair and screenwriter, producer and professor Sabrina Dhawan. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Ritu Rao, writer, INTACH consultant, and researcher on water sustainability.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...