Newslaundry Interviews

न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री इंटरव्यूज की इस कड़ी में ट्रिब्यून अखबार के वरिष्ठ संवाददाता और लेखक जुपिंदरजीत सिंह से मशहूर पंजाबी गायक सिद्धू मूसेवाला की हत्या पर उनकी नई किताब ' हू किल्ड मूसेवाला: द स्पायरलिंग स्टोरी ऑफ वायलेंस इन पंजाब ' को लेकर बातचीत हुई. यह इंटरव्यू एक पॉडकास्ट के रूप में है. अपनी इस किताब में सिंह ने मूसेवाला की हत्या से जुड़े अनेक पहलुओं पर रोशनी डाली है. किताब में वह सिद्दू मूसेवाला और...

Journalist and author Sugata Srinivasaraju sits down with Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia to discuss caste politics in Karnataka. Sugata gives a brief history of two dominant communities Vokkaligas and Lingayats, and how they became important in Karnataka’s electoral politics. Sugata says it is a myth to say that Lingayats and Vokkaligas determine politics in India and it is a myth perpetrated by...

Is your MLA responsible for the dug up road outside your house? What is the job of an MLA? Why does Bengalururu — a city famous for its activism — record low voting percentage? Manisha Pande discusses these themes with Srinivas Allavilli, an activist and co-founder of Citizens for Bangalore. The two also discuss some of the pressing issues facing the city, the state of its lakes and how money powe...

Big News Coming In: Newslaundry and The NewsMinute are forming an alliance for more public interest journalism. Going forward you will see the two organizations collaborate on reporting projects and growth strategy. In this episode, Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna of the NewsMinute and Manisha Pande and Atul Chauraisa of Newslaundry discuss key issues on voters' minds this election season. Wil...

ऐसा कौन होगा जो अमेरिका जाने का सपना नहीं देखता होगा? गुजरात में भी ज्यादातर लोगों की चाह अमेरिका जाने की है. अहमदाबाद, गांधीनगर और मेहसाणा जिले के कई गांव ऐसे हैं, जहां आधे से ज्यादा लोग अमेरिका में रह रहे हैं.  यहां के गांवों में घूमते हुए लोगों के अंदर अमेरिका जाने की बेचैनी का अंदाजा आसानी से लगाया जा सकता है. हमें अपनी पड़ताल के दौरान कुछ लोग तो ऐसे भी मिले हैं जो दर्जनों बार अमेरिका जान...

In their 2022 book The Truth Pill , lawyer Prashant Reddy T and public health activist Dinesh S Thakur explored various aspects of modern pharmacology and pharmaceutical practices in India. Now, in this conversation with Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri on February 9, they talked about the shortcomings of pharmaceutical regulations in India. Prashant quoted a former drug controller, who said, “If...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has scripted a spectacular victory in Gujarat, improving even on its 2002 election performance under Narendra Modi, who has since gone on to be the prime minister. The Aam Aadmi Party has made big gains in terms of vote share, seemingly at the expense of the Congress, which has put up its worst performance ever. The grand old party, however, is posies to defeat the incum...

As Gujarat votes in the second phase of the assembly election, the Newslaundry election team discusses whether the BJP is poised to return to power. They explore why voters want to put their faith back in a party that’s been in power in Gujarat for over 25 years, PM Modi’s connect with the state, and why price rise and inflation don’t affect his appeal to voters. The team also discusses latest ent...

On the #MorningShow , Atul and Manisha catch up with students of Gujarat University. Young people in their 20s have grown up seeing only one party in rule – the #BJP . How do they assess the party’s work? Do they yearn for a change? And what do they think of vikaas in Gujarat? On law and order, students born in 2002 believe that they have seen a peaceful state compared to their parents’ experience...

contribute to our NL Sena fund: https://www.newslaundry.com/nl-sena/g... #gujaratassemblyelection पर यह न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री का पहला #morningshow है. इस एपिसोड में हमारे साथ लेखक-व्यंग्यकार उर्वीश कोठारी और द हिंदू के सीनियर असिस्टेंट एडिटर महेश लांगा शामिल हुए. इस एपिसोड में भारतीय जनता पार्टी के 27 साल के शासनकाल पर चर्चा हुई. आखिर ऐसा क्या है जिसके दम पर गुजरात में भाजपा लगातार चुनाव जीत रही है? साथ...

Power our election coverage: https://www.newslaundry.com/nl-sena/g... On this #MorningShow , Atul and Manisha are joined by Ashwini Sharma, former bureau chief of Indian Express and currently with Outlook and Rajeev Khanna, associate editor with Citizen. They discuss BJP’s manifesto promises and compare them with what Congress is offering. They talk about factionalism within #BJP and Prime Ministe...

Manisha and Atul catch up with the students of journalism department in #HimachalUniversity . Students talk about issues that are important this election — infrastructure, employment opportunities, healthcare and good roads. They speak about lack of teachers in schools and why English is an aspirational language. Students also speak of major issues in their villages — lack of good infrastructure i...

Atul Chaurasia and Manisha Pande were in Shimla this morning. They talk about the upcoming #HimachalPradeshElections with two veteran journalists Archana Phul and Adhir Rohal. The Old Pension Scheme comes out as a key issue this election along with unemployment. They discussed factionalism in the BJP, the lack of strong leadership in Congress, and why AAP is not a strong factor in the hill state....

गुजरात विधानसभा चुनावों पर हम एक और मॉर्निंग शो लेकर आए हैं. इस एपिसोड में हमारे साथ मोरबी के स्थानीय लोग शामिल हुए. बता दें कि मोरबी पुल हादसे में 135 लोगों की जान चली गई. यह पुल 31 अक्टूबर को गिर गया था. वहां वर्तमान में क्या स्थिति है इसके लिए न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री की टीम ने मोरबी का दौरा किया. जहां हमने वहां के लोगों से बात की और पूछा कि क्या मोरबी हादसे का असर गुजरात चुनाव पर भी पड़ेगा? मोरबी में लो...

In the final episode of Back In Time , Kunal Kamra sits down with Prasoon Pandey – his former boss, mentor and among the most iconic ad filmmakers – to chat about the Times of India ad campaign. They discuss Prasoon’s inspiration and how he convinced the brand to take such a different approach. “Because you weren’t personal, because you weren’t bitter, your pieces had a life of its own,” he says a...

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India. The panel discussion titled “Negotiations with Security Laws” was moderated by Vakasha Sachdev, lawyer and editorial lead of Logically . She was joined by Harto...

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India. The panel discussion “Court Stories” was moderated by Abhinandan Sekhri, founder of Newslaundry . He was joined by lawyers Rebecca John and Sonam Gupta, and Alt...

In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with Supreme Court lawyer Meenakshi Arora, who was instrumental in formulating the Vishaka guidelines in India to help enforce gender equality in workplaces. They talk about workplace conditions for women before the guidelines and why it was important to take action. On whether we might ever see an end to harassment in the workplace, Meenakshi says, “As long...

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India. The panel discussion “Lessons from the Emergency” was moderated by independent journalist Neha Dixit. She was joined by journalist and author Kalpana Sharma and...

In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with TV producer and director Suhaib Ilyasi, who hosted the iconic crime show India’s Most Wanted in the late 90s and early 2000s. Suhaib talks about the show’s creation, its impact, and his reputation as one of the first TV anchors to sensationalise news. Talking about his sting operation of actors Shakti Kapoor and Aman Verma, he says, “It was necessary to...

Kunal Kamra sits down with Shashanka Ghosh, director and former creative head of Channel V .  “ Channel V was the cool guy around,” Shashanka says, “and saying ‘ ye dekh, ye dekh ’ from around the world.” They talk about what made the channel relatable to urban Indian youth, organisational challenges in an age of analog, and how fun it was to create homegrown content that wasn’t an imitation...

In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with eminent photojournalist Raghu Rai, who discusses what it was like to capture Indira Gandhi’s essence from her first term to her last. He talks about her unique brand of politics and how she changed over the decades.  A turning point was the 1975 Allahabad High Court judgement that convicted Gandhi of electoral malpractices. “It was the beginning of...

Roop Rekha Verma is former acting vice chancellor of Lucknow University, a professor of philosophy and a social activist. She made news earlier this week when she agreed to stand as surety for Siddique Kappan as a condition of his bail. Kappan, a journalist from Kerala, was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police while he was on his way to report on the brutal gangrape of a teenage Dalit girl by four...

Barkha Dutt has had a long journey in journalism. She describes covering the Kargil war in 1999 and the Covid pandemic in 2020-21 as the bookends of her career. A veteran TV journalist, Barkha quit NDTV in 2017 and launched her own independent media organisation, Mojo Story .  Her new book, To Hell and Back: Humans of Covid , recounts countless stories of grief, grimness, and goodwill that sh...

Kunal sits down with Naila Chogle to talk about her life and work as a writer on CID , one of India’s most watched TV shows, her mentor and the show’s creator BP Singh, the show’s promotion of the films of stars such as Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor; and striking the balance between reality and fiction in a police procedural drama. Listen to the full podcast by being a subscriber...