NL Hafta

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by University of Michigan’s Associate Professor Joyojeet Pal and senior journalist Radhika Ramaseshan.  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 informati...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, Anand Vardhan, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by election analyst and researcher Amitabh Tiwari, along with historian and Newslaundry subscriber Swati Chawla. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app .  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Raman Kirpal  are joined by writer and economist Vivek Kaul and environmental journalist Hridayesh Joshi.  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, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by senior journalist Neerja Chowdhury, The News Minute ’s editor-in-chief Dhanya Rajendran, and Newslaundry reporter Sumedha Mittal.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app . Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by The Hindu ’s diplomatic affairs editor Suhasini Haider, The News Minute ’s Pooja Prasanna, and filmmaker Hansal Mehta. 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, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by former Executive Director, Air India, Jitendra Bhargava, and Executive Editor of The Frontier Manipur , Paojel Choaba. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Jayashree Arunachalam, Shardool Katyayan and Raman Kirpal are joined by Aditya Ramanathan, geopolitical expert research analyst 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 information.

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Washington Post’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief Gerry Shih and journalist and author Jyotsna Mohan. The conversation spans global and domestic developments, with a focus on the Israel-Gaza conflict and the legacy of Indian journalism. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independ...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist and CGNet Swara ’s co-founder Shubhranshu Choudhary. We start with a discussion on the killing of 27 suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh this week and analyse if the Maoist movement in the state has declined. Shubhranshu says, “W...

In this special episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Anand Vardhan and Jayashree Arunachalam catch up on all the letters – over 45 of them – that we’ve received from subscribers. Hafta letters: India-Pakistan, podcast ideas, team feedback, thoughts on patriotism We have a page for subscribers to send letters to our shows. If you want to write to Hafta, click here .&...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Hindu ’s Dinakar Peri, who covers defense and strategic affairs. The episode opens with a discussion on the India-Pakistan military escalation, focusing on both the media narrative and strategic implications of the recent strikes. Critiquing Indian news media’s coverage of the conflict, Manisha...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by retired Brigadier Kuldip Singh. In this tense news week, we begin by dissecting India’s Operation Sindoor and strikes on terror camps in Pakistan on May 7. “Neither side, particularly India, wants a full-scale war,” says Brigadier Singh, referring to past con...

In a special episode for Press Freedom Day, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam, are joined by historian and author Ramachandra Guha. The panel begins with a discussion on the history of press freedom in India. Ram reflects on the similarities and differences between 1975’s Emergency and today.  “The Modi regime has gone farther than Indira’...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by diplomatic and foreign affairs expert Manoj Joshi.  The Pahalgam terror attack was at the centre of the discussion, with the panel exploring various aspects of the incident, including security lapses, recent developments, India’s immediate diplomatic response, its potential long-...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by senior journalist Nirmalya Mukherjee and NewsX editorial director Priya Sahgal.  The panel first discusses communal unrest in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, where protests against the Waqf Amendment Act turned violent this week. Nirmalya says, “This is the first time that...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by S emafor ’s business reporter Rohan Goswami and political consultant and federalism expert Tara Krishnaswamy.  On Trump’s flip-flop on tariffs and the escalating trade war with China, Rohan says: “Trump created tremendous panic. He got what he wanted. World leaders are callin...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Manisha Pande are joined by The News Minute ’s Sudipto Mondal and Supreme Court lawyer Talha Abdul Rahman. On the controversial Waqf Amendment Bill, passed in Parliament this week after long fiery debates, Talha says: “Every Waqf that is now created will have to register themselves with the central depository.” He adds that th...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by comedian and screenwriter Anuvab Pal. The panel first discusses the Kunal Kamra controversy. Jayashree lays down the timeline of incidents and Abhinandan highlights the Supreme Court’s comments on free speech in the Imran Pratapgarhi case. Anuvab says: “We [comedians] take ver...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande are joined by The News Minute ’s Dhanya Rajendran and The Wire ’s Seema Chishti. The panel first discusses the recent crackdown on pro-Palestine student protests in US campuses and deportation of two Indian students, Ranjani Srinivasan and Badar Khan Suri. Dhanya says, “Ranjani insisted that she was not a huge part of the prote...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by writer and podcaster Amit Varma.  The panel first discusses pre-Holi communal concerns, including a Sambhal cop saying Muslims should stay inside this Holi if they don’t want to be smeared with colour. Jayashree says communal provocations during Holi have be...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry ’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Dr Sumeet Mhaskar, professor of sociology at Jindal School of Government and Public Policy, and Ajoy Bose, veteran journalist and author of Behenji: The Rise and Fall of Mayawati. The panel first discusses the controversy triggered by Samajwadi Party legislator Abu Azmi’s remarks on A...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Nitin Pai, director of Takshashila Institution, and The News Minute’s  Shabbir Ahmed. The panel first discusses the inception and functioning of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – a new department set up by the United States government and headed by tech...

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This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by former Chief Election Commissioner Dr SY Quraishi and cartoonist Rachita Taneja.  The show starts with a detailed discussion on the controversy surrounding the USAID funds allegedly released to “increase voter turnout in India” and an Indian Express fact-che...

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan ’s Hartosh Singh Bal and Delhi University professor Tanvir Aeijaz.  The panel begins the show by discussing Narendra Modi’s meeting with Donald Trump which Manisha terms “a test of statecraft” for Modi. The discussion then moves to the Delhi election result, which saw the BJP returni...