Newslaundry Interviews

These are some of the biggest trends – and challenges – facing the news ecosystem today, impacting India in new and unique ways. And this was the focus of a discussion organised around the launch of the Reuters Institute Digital News Report for 2025 , a comprehensive study of news consumption worldwide.  Moderated by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s director Mitali Mukherje...

“It is not only democracy that is on the ballot... but the realisation that we have a dictator in the making if we were to give Trump a second presidency,” says Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar in an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain.  On the high stakes in the elections, the prominent Muslim politician says that rights and liberties, “bodily autonomy,” policies like student deb...

In this episode of Another Election Show, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia reached Jammu to understand the issues of the locals, particularly the youth, ahead of the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir.  Following the recent delimitation process, the region has a total of 90 electoral seats – 43 in Jammu and 47 in Kashmir. the voting in three phases, with the final phase set to cover...

The politics of Jammu have been distinct from that of Kashmir. To grasp the nuances of this difference and the issues in Jammu, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia spoke to the region’s senior journalists – Mohit Kandhari of The Pioneer and Nishikant Khajuria of Daily Excelsio.     In this episode of Another Election Show, the conversations shed light on the influence of the various po...

जम्मू कश्मीर में करीब 10 साल बाद चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं. यहां मुख्यधारा की लगभग सारी पार्टियां जैसे-नेशनल कॉन्फ्रेन्स, पीडीपी, कांग्रेस और बीजेपी चुनावी मैदान में हैं. इसके अलावा ऐसी पार्टियां भी चुनावी मैदान में हैं जिनपर अलगाववाद और ‘आज़ादी’ के नारे लगाने का आरोप है. इन्हीं पार्टियों में से एक पार्टी है शेख राशिद इंजीनियर की आवामी इत्तेहाद पार्टी और दूसरी है जमात-ए-इस्लामी.जमात -ए-इस्लामी अतीत मे...

What started as a mass student protest against job quotas escalated into a deadly uprising in Bangladesh, with over 150 people killed so far. Muktadir Rashid, a journalist in Bangladesh who has been reporting on the clashes from the ground, speaks to  Newslaundry  about the challenges to reporting in such circumstances, the incident in which he was shot at, how two journalists were kille...

After the spate of allegations against IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, last week the UPSC said she had misused the disability quota and filed a case against her. But this changed the course of the conversation, with several bureaucrats raising questions on the need for the quota.  Arman Ali, executive director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, spoke to&nbsp...

Nearly a year after violence broke out during the Brij Mandal religious yatra in Haryana’s Nuh, killing at least six people, preparations are underway for another yatra on July 22. And Bittu Bajrangi, cow vigilante and key accused of last year’s violence, has claimed to lead the procession this year.      Bajrangi, who was arrested by the Haryana police last year and subse...

Bihar is now the first state in India to simultaneously recruit three transgender persons as sub-inspectors in the state police. Among the 1,275 candidates who cracked the sub-inspector recruitment examination held by the Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission, three of them broke several stereotypes – Manvi Madhu Kashyap, who identifies as a transwoman, and two transmen, Ronit Jha and Bunty...

The cancellation of the FCRA licence “has nothing to do with technicalities. It [the government] is weaponising FCRA and using it as a political tool against organisations that are critical of the government,” said Joe Athialy, executive director of the Centre for Financial Accountability. Last week, the FCRA licence of the CFA’s parent entity, India Institute for Critical Action Centre, was cance...

Manickam Tagore, a three-time Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar, is one of the fierce opposition voices in the Parliament. In the 18th session of the Lok Sabha, Tagore raised the issue of the restricted media access to the parliament.   In a conversation with  Newslaundry , the Congress leader spoke about the changes in parliamentary proceedings, INDIA bloc’s strategy for t...

Samajwadi Party leader Pushpendra Saroj had turned 25 years old just two weeks before the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls. He managed to win UP’s Kaushambi seat by defeating the BJP’s Vinod Sonkar, a two-time MP, with a margin of over 1 lakh votes. In a conversation with  Newslaundry , he spoke about his decision to contest the elections, his political agenda, and the role played by youth...

The Ram Janmabhoomi and Babri mosque dispute in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya dominated Indian politics for three decades, culminating in the grand inauguration of the Ram temple by Prime Minister Narendra Modi months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. It also became the main poll plank of the BJP.        But the Faizabad constituency, which comprises Ayodhya, was won by Samajwa...

Amra Ram, 69, is a first-time MP from Rajasthan’s Sikar constituency and prominent face among farmers across India, especially Rajasthan. On the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha session, the lone CPIM MP from the desert state rode a tractor to the parliament in Delhi. In this conversation with  Newslaundry , Ram spoke about why he rode a tractor to the parliament, Modi government, INDIA bloc “...

Once barred from the national capital for four weeks over his protest against the CAA-NRC, Chandrashekhar Azad has returned to Delhi as the MP elect from Nagina in Uttar Pradesh. The Bhim Army chief and leader of Azad Samaj Party - Kanshi Ram secured the Lok Sabha seat with a victory margin of more than 1.5 lakh votes. In a conversation with  Newslaundry , the first-time MP spoke about his fu...

Over the past decade, the BJP has been fighting tooth and nail to make inroads in southern politics. The Congress, meanwhile, has pushed the narrative of an “iron wall” between the north and south.     The grand old party has a stronger grassroot presence and nuanced pitch, while the BJP’s approach in the region is decentralised, with “voices from the ground being heard” from e...

The Another Election Show caravan has reached Uttarakhand. In this episode, Atul Chaurasia sits down with the leaders of political parties’ youth wing, journalists and students of DAV College in Dehradun to understand the undercurrents in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.   We particularly gauge the mood in the Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency, which earlier recorded volatile politi...

Polling for the Lok Sabha elections is set to begin. So, Atul Chaurasia and Manisha Pandey have hit the ground, to bring you the most authentic voices on Another Election Show – starting from Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur. Rampur – a bastion of the now-jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan – is one of the 102 seats to go to polls in the first phase of the elections beginning on April 19. The constituen...

In this episode, we look at the BJP’s poll campaign in Madhya Pradesh and the factors that may lead to voter fatigue. How is the Ladli Behna scheme faring? Why is the BJP fighting the polls in the name of Modi?  Despite chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan being the tallest BJP leader in the state, has he been sidelined in the polls campaign?  We also discuss issues of corruption, malnut...

न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री की टीम मध्य प्रदेश में विधानसभा चुनाव की कवरेज के लिए ग्राउंड पर है. हर बार की तरह इस बार भी टीम "मॉर्निंग शो" के जरिए विभिन्न वर्गों के बीच जाकर उनकी राय जान रही है. मॉर्निंग शो के इस एपिसोड में हमारी टीम ने राज्य के ताजा चुनावी मुद्दों को लेकर युवाओं से बातचीत की. इसके लिए हमारी टीम भोपाल में स्थित जागरण लेक सिटी यूनिवर्सिटी परिसर पहुंची.  इस दौरान छात्र-छात्राओं से विभिन्ना...

In this episode, we try to understand the issues that matter to young voters, and how they view the manifestos of political parties and the concept of a welfare state. We reach the Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya campus in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur, where questions on education, corruption, the Mahadev app scam case, as well as the track record of the Bhupesh Baghel government come up during our conve...

In this episode of Morning Show from Chhattisgarh’s Raipur, we talk about the poll issues with some of the credible voices of the state, including senior journalists, social activists and a former bureaucrat.      The price of paddy has reportedly emerged as the biggest poll issue in the current elections in Chhattisgarh. In its manifesto, the BJP has promised to purchase...

एनएल इंटरव्यू में इस बार राष्ट्रीय जनता दल (आरजेडी) के राज्यसभा सांसद मनोज झा से बातचीत हुई. इसमें ‘इंडिया’ और भारत के बीच उठे विवाद, जी 20 के आयोजन, एक देश, एक चुनाव, संसद का विशेष सत्र के अलावा मीडिया द्वारा विपक्ष को निशाना बनाने की प्रवृत्ति पर विस्तार से बातचीत हुई.  विपक्षी गठबंधन ‘इंडिया’ के सत्ता में आने के एक सवाल पर मनोज झा कहते हैं, “यदि हमारी पार्टी की सरकार बनती है तो भाजपा को भी...

Thousands of Kukis have taken shelter in Mizoram amid the continued unrest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BJP MLA from Saikot in Manipur’s Churachandpur district said he believes prime minister Narendra Modi’s priorities are misplaced. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.