NL Hafta

This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam of Newslaundry are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of the News Minute . Commenting on the murder of a lawyer couple in Telangana even after the state’s high court had ordered that they be protected, Dhanya says, “Whoever executed the murder, whoever gave the contract for the...

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 wa...

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...

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 c...

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,...

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...

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 medi...

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 ...

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 mutatio...

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 vi...

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 Aru...

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...

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 - Recommendatio...

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...

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 . Starti...

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 Thi...

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...

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...

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...

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 viol...

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 w...

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 mea...

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 pointin...

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...

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 plan...