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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...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by journalist Arati Jerath and Sunil Dahiya, founder of Envirocatalysts.  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, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu , and Dr Khinvraj Jangid, director and professor at the Centre for Israel Studies at OP Jindal Global University.  Abhinandan asks Suhasini whether it was “embarrassing” for the Indian government to have permitte...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by senior journalist Nirupama Subramaniam and lawyer and author Prashant Reddy.  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 and Manisha Pande, and The News Minute ’s Dhanya Rajendran and Sudipto Mondal áre joined by senior journalist Josy Joseph for a special Hafta and South Central crossover episode on the future of media. Josy begins the discussion by arguing that the decline of newspapers and television is accelerating, not only due to technology, but also because of a com...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande are joined by Pooja Prasanna, editor-in-chief of reporting at The News Minute ; senior lawyer Mishi Choudhary; independent journalist Smita Sharma; and senior journalist Sanjoy Hazarika from the Northeast. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Host...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute, and Nitin Sethi, founding editor of the Reporter’s Collective .  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, Anand Vardhan, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Kanak Mani Dixit, founder-editor of Himal South Asian, and writer and podcaster Anurag Minus Verma.  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 Shardool Katyayan are joined by Akshay Bhambri, doctoral fellow at the Institute for Chinese Studies, Harvard Yenching Institute, and Sumeet Mhaskar, professor at OP Jindal Global University.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by economist and author Vivek Kaul and sports journalist Sharda Ugra.  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, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Faizan Mustafa, legal scholar and VC of Chanakya National Law University, Patna, and Anuradha M Chenoy, former dean of JNU’s School of International Affairs. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Host...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Priya Sahgal, editorial director at NewsX , Jasmine Damkewala, advocate on record in the Supreme Court, and senior journalist Hridayesh Joshi. The episode opens with a discussion on the opposition’s protest against the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar. Priya states that wh...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Nitin Pai, co-founder and director of The Takshashila Institution, and senior journalist Hridayesh Joshi from Uttarkashi. 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 in...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal are joined by Udit Misra from The Indian Express and independent journalist Sanjeev Srivastava. 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, Anand Vardhan, Raman Kirpal, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by MK Venu, Founding Editor of The Wire , and award-winning investigative journalist and author Josy Joseph. 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 info...