NL Hafta

What an eventful week! From Black Mirror to a bucket full of short films, including Neeraj Pandey’s Ouch to Danny DeVito’s Curmudgeon, Deepanjana Pal and Rajyasree Sen have a lot to say this week. Find out what they think of Aamir Khan’s Dangal, Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Dear Zindagi. Also, moving towards the advertising world, Salman Khan has been dropped as Thumbs Up’s b...

Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their sporty round up. This week on Just Sports, they discuss how José Mourinho inspired Chelsea F.C. to a thumping win, and if one-day cricket is a dying format. They also wonder if Alastair Cook will play long enough to break Sachin Tendulkar’s records? And finally, they explore Kabaddi and how this rural game has become internationally popular. All this a...

Times Now editor in chief, Arnab Goswami gets ‘Y’ category security, news channels at loggerheads for television ratings, Arnab declares his show to be the greatest and to shed some more light on it, joining us is Sandeep Bhushan, TV journalist and a regular media critic. Madhu Trehan, Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Anand Ranganathan and Vivek Gopal along with our guest, discuss & dissect Karan Johar’s a...

Deepanjana Pal wasn't here but that didn't deter Rajyasree Sen from bringing you the next episode of Awful and Awesome, (Abhinandan Sekhri came to the rescue!). "Befikre" has 23 kisses taking place in it; Priyanka Chopra has apologised for her infamous 'traveler' t-shirt; Bigg Boss has 'commoners' this season; and what's in a (sur)name? (Hint: patriarchy). Listen to Episode 14 and broaden your ent...

Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their sporty round up. This time they discuss whether José Mourinho spoiled the Manchester United vs Liverpool game by parking the bus, if physically being present on the field is enough for a sportsperson? Finally, Indian biopics of Sportspersons, why do we get to see only sanitised versions, mostly hero worshiping them? All this and more, discussed and dis...

What makes you an anti-national? Eating beef? Asking the government for details on the surgical strike? Or running an interview with the opposition leader? Recently, NDTV chose to ride the nationalistic wave, along with other channels, and dropped Barkha Dutt’s interview with former home & finance minister P Chidambaram declaring: ‘India above politics’. Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of The...

Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their sporty round-up. This time around they discuss the ISL and its level of sports broadcast - why it is below standard and has the risk of becoming the IPL's poorer cousin. The also speculate on the futility of the World Cup qualifiers and if it is time to rethink the format. And why Lewis Hamilton, the reigning formula 1 racing champion, is a man we all...

Should the Indian government release the video footage of the surgical strikes? Should journalists or politicians ask proof of the Indian Armed Forces’ actions? Deepanjana Pal, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan and Manisha Pande discuss the sustained media coverage of the surgical strikes as it continues to dominate news – there’s the Indian Express scoop and CNN News18’s ‘Global Exclusive’. The tea...

Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their sporty round-up. At The Ryder Cup, American patriotism raised a few European hackles. Khan and Puri have questions about the Indian Super League (ISL) — is it the Indian Premier League (IPL) of Indian football and what is the ISL’s future? Also, find out more about the murky world of football agents as well as why the BCCI should listen to the Lodha Co...

It's a special episode this week, with author and columnist Chetan Bhagat. Bhagat joins Deepanjana Pal and Rajyasree Sen to talk about his new novel, One Indian Girl. This is the first time Bhagat's protagonist is a woman and he's written it in first person. Find out what Bhagat did to get in the average Indian woman's mind (hint: it includes hot wax). Also, dear listeners, you might want to hear...

The big news this week is that for the first time that we can remember, the Indian Army admitted to having conducted a "surgical strike" along the Line of Control. Is this the mooh tod jawab that the country was waiting for after terrorist attacks like the ones we suffered in Poonch and Uri? Lieutenant General HS Panag, a Newslaundry columnist, gives us his expert point of view. While the Army has...

What an eventful week! Bridget Jones’s Baby, the sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary, is out. Leena Yadav’s film Parched released. Netflix’s documentary on Amanda Knox’s controversial murder charges comes out on October 1 and in celebration of the Presidential Debates in America, Audi has a brand new ad that has Rajyasree Sen and Deepanjana Pal in a tizzy. Plus Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’s trailer launched to...

A Manchester United nut and a Liverpool fanatic bring you all the premier league action that unfolded this weekend. Samar Khan and Rahul Puri tell you the score on all things football and cricket. Is R Ashwin the all-rounder Indian cricket has been waiting for? Khan and Puri disagree on whether Manchester United or Liverpool will make it to the top four in this year’s English Premier League. And t...

The recent attack in Uri on a military camp left 17 soldiers dead, many injured. Considering the general emotion floating on social media how prepared are we for war? Is going to war with Pakistan even an option? Can we really abrogate the Indus Water Treaty with Pakistan? The answer to all these questions is no, says Kishalay Bhattacharjee, consulting editor of Newslaundry. Abhinandan Sekhri, Ana...

The Emmys were historic this year, and ​Deepanjana Pal and Rajyasree Sen watched ​have some highlights for you. Katrina Kaif ​won the Smita Patil Memorial Award,​ and as far as Sen is concerned, it's not worth outraging over. Find out why. ​ ​The documentary ​Bachelor Girls​ tells ​us ​how difficult it is for single women to find a house in Mumbai​. In more exotic news,​ Ellen Page ​and Ian Daniel...

A Manchester United nut and a Liverpool fanatic bring you all the Premier League action that unfolded over the weekend. Liverpool beat Chelsea and that old question came up again: Should Wayne Rooney be playing anymore? Does he deserve to be on the pitch? Closer home, Samar and Rahul turn their attention to the Davis Cup. Is it time to wave goodbye to this tournament? The Indian cricket team will...

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Supreme Court's notice to Karnataka regarding the Cauvery keeps both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on the edge, but was the media coverage a little too hyperbolic? Also, is 'Why no pellet guns?' a justified question? RSS generated heat with Kerala over festival myths​​ and caused a debate over what precisely is the nature of Onam. ​Indian Express did ​superb ​​investigative reporting (once again) on Ja...

This week, Deepanjana Pal and Rajyasree Sen ​​leapfrog from critically-acclaimed ​documentary, ​​Placebo​, to the pulpy Freaky Ali.​​​There's little agreement between the two of them on the film front, but when it comes to the new music released this week, there's complete consensus. Find out what they have to say about the "Bolo Har Har" from Shivaay and the first new release from Mother Monster...

A Manchester United nut and a Liverpool fanatic bring you all the premier league action that unfolded over the weekend. Samar Khan tells you why he thinks there is no best tennis player in the world right now, following all that happened in the US open. Rahul Puri on why the BCCI’s bullying ways will do no favours to cricket. Also the duo don't hold back on why England cricket captain Eoin Morgan...

Ramachandra Guha is an historian​,​ bu​t​ ​really, he is essentially a philosopher who makes history relevant to current events. He has authored multiple books on history, cricket and the environment. Newslaundry uploads Guha's recent lecture at the Raza Foundation about the problems of freedom of expression in India. There a few men who can combine intellectualism with wit while addressing the cu...

We move our focus to the South of the Vindhyas this week as columnist T S Sudhir, Hyderabad-based journalist & author, joins us on this episode of NL Hafta. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are at it again — the Cauvery dispute has escalated again, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu accepted a special package instead of a special status from the Centre, while in Kerala, the Rashtra Swayamseva...

Is "unauthorised" basically leave to speculate? Seems that way from Yasser Usman, who has written Rekha - The Untold Story, a gossipy, breezy read. Amitabh Bachchan's letter to his granddaughters on Teacher’s Day raises a number of questions. Is it just a PR stint to promote his upcoming movie, Pink? Speaking of Pink, we've found the best part of the film: Qurat-ul-Ain Baloch's beautiful rendition...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal fired​ MLA Sandeep Kumar ​when an ‘objectionable cd’​ showing Kumar having sex surfaced​, but should ​Kumar have been fired? ​And why is the media ​getting its knickers in a twist? ​There was a ​naked Jain monk ​in the Haryana assembly​ preaching misogyny​, Rahul Gandhi ​came out as less of a wuss in ​his case​ against the RSS​. Mihira Sood, a Supreme Court law...

From arty films on urban life to lesbians in Indian cinema and Karan Johar's new film, there's a lot that Deepanjana Pal and Rajyasree Sen have on their minds this week. Listen up as Pal offers an explanation for why Aishwarya Rai Bachchan chose Jazbaa (and not ADHM) as her comeback film. Sen takes you through two new web series, The 'Other' Love Story and Tripling. There's also their review of Is...