Reporters Without Orders

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry ’s Ashwine Kumar Singh and Tanishka Sodhi.  Ashwine, who is in Punjab covering the assembly election, talks about his report on unemployment in Doaba. He also explains how a large part of the state’s population moves abroad, while drug abuse has impacted a majority of the youth left behind. Tanishka talks about her report on the anganwad...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry ’s Nidhi Suresh and Shivangi Saxena.  Nidhi, who is reporting on the assembly election in Goa, talks about how Goans “vote for a personality, not a party”. Her report on women’s issues covered how Goa has more women voters than men but their representation in politics is still a problem. “There are 301 candidates [across] all the parties,”...

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry ’s Nabeel Ahmed and Basant Kumar.  Basant, who is reporting from Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming assembly election, talks about his report from Mathura . A colony in Vikasnagar is refusing to vote, he says, since residents are dealing with multiple issues, from open sewage to crumbling roads. He explains the irony of a colony named “vikas”...

This week, it’s an all- Newslaundry panel as Nidhi Suresh is joined by Supriti David and Laasya Shekhar. The discussion starts with Supriti’s report on the pandemic exacerbating issues within the health infrastructure. Looking at two major hospitals in Delhi, she details how the problems have stacked up for doctors with barely any steps taken to resolve them. “From an overworked environment to bas...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry ’s Ayush Tiwari and freelance journalist Saurabh Sharma. Ayush talks about his report on how the “Hindutva takeover” of the Indian Council of Historical Research is fuelled by nepotism. “The brothers, relatives, nephews related to Hindutva organisations are being hired on temporary jobs by ICHR,” he says. “And within weeks, they are promoted to...

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry ’s Basant Kumar and Prateek Goyal. The conversation begins with this piece by Basant and Ashwine Kumar Singh on an Uttar Pradesh election show – Kya Bole UP – on Doordarshan which features BJP affiliates passed off as “common citizens”.  “The show has crossed the line of ethics and is presenting more of a campaign for the current governmen...

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry ’s Nidhi Suresh, independent journalist Arshi Qureshi, and Alt News senior editor Pooja Chaudhari. The discussion surrounds the fake “auction” of Muslim women on an app called “Bulli Bai”. “They are targeted attacks on Muslim women,” says Arshi. “First, it was only social media trolls and abuse. But now, it’s much more than we can ever imagin...

This week, it’s an all- Newslaundry panel with host Nidhi Suresh being joined by Ayush Tiwari, Akanksha Kumar, Basant Kumar and Prateek Goyal for a discussion on the year-long journey of reporters at the organisation.  The conversation begins with events they found the most difficult to cover; from Ayush and Basant reporting on the Covid crisis to Akanksha travelling across eastern Uttar Prad...

This week, it’s an all- Newslaundry panel as host Basant Kumar is joined by Diksha Munjal and Anna Priyadarshani. The discussion begins with Diksha’s report on the implications and complexities of the POCSO Act in India. Detailing lapses in the system, she says trials which are to be completed within the stipulated one-year period have been pending for even five years in some cases. “Either the ju...

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Srishti Jaswal, independent writer and journalist, and Oishika Neogi, a human rights researcher and writer at Karwan-e-Mohabbat . Oishika talks about her story in Article14 on the widows of three people lynched in Jharkhand. On her responsibility as a reporter, she says, “We do report hate crimes, talk about it, but what after that? We forget. But these pe...

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This week, it’s an all- Newslaundry panel as host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Diksha Munjal and Supriti David. The discussion begins with Supriti’s report on a teacher who was suspended from a school affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh because she refused to donate for the construction of the Ram temple. Supriti says the teacher “wasn’t just harassed but had to face some hostile situations...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by IndiaSpend ’s principal correspondent Ranvijay Singh and Newslaundry ’s Tanishka Sodhi. Ranvijay explains his report on Uttar Pradesh’s initiatives to protect cows, and how caretakers of the cattle in reality receive inadequate funds to run shelters, leading to the animals being abandoned. “Dying cows is more like a routine now,” he says, “and not news.” T...

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry ’s Ayush Tiwari.  They discuss the violence in Tripura and Ayush’s report on how the state is encountering a communal clash that has never been an issue in their history.  “Religious differences were never an issue in Tripura, it was always regional differences that created clashes in the past,” Ayush says. “So, it’s all new for the s...

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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalist Srishti Jaswal and Dainik Bhaskar’s reporter Vaibhav Palnitkar.  The discussion starts with Srishti’s cover story for the Caravan magazine on how “crimes of superstition” thrive in India. Giving examples, such as the Kathua rape case, she says, “Superstitions are not about lack of education. It’s about unawareness and embedded f...

A reporters’ podcast about what made news and what shouldn’t have. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry ’s Basant Kumar and Shivangi Saxena.  The discussion begins with Shivangi and Nidhi’s reportage on the violence at Lakhimpur Kheri. Shivangi says communal tension was rare here before but the violence has changed that. “All the communities are silent but there is a constant tension and fear among them,” she says. “It’s basically a social b...

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by journalist Tabeenah Anjum and Newslaundry ’s Diksha Munjal.  Diksha talks about her report on how the media gave the recent Mumbai “drug bust”, which involved Aryan Khan, way more coverage than the October 3 violence in Lakhimpur Kheri. “Clearly it was very sensational for the mainstream media to cover the drug bust as they deployed all their resour...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry ’s Nidhi Suresh and independent journalist Anand Dutt. Anand starts with his BBC Hindi report on a ration crisis in Jharkhand, where people have to travel 30 km to reach ration distribution centres. “Mobile networks play an important role in this distribution,” he says, “as sometimes, the dealer can’t give rations because the machine doesn’t ad...

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Arun Singh of NDTV and Akanksha Kumar of Newslaundry . The panel talks about their experience reporting on the Hathras case, where a 19-year-old Dalit woman was gangraped last September in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. She died soon after and her body was forcibly cremated by the Uttar Pradesh police. Four Thakur men have been arrested so far, and the trial is...

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Kashif Kakvi of NewsClick and Ashwine Singh of Newslaundry . The conversation begins with Kashif's story about how the BJP is using the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan as a tool to counter the anti-incumbency against its government in Madhya Pradesh. To this end, Kashif notes, the Hindu supremacist party organised a seminar for their IT Cell workers in...

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry ’s Basant Kumar and Avdhesh Kumar. Basant talks about his report from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, where thousands of farmers organised a Kisan Mahapanchayat on September 5 to protest against the Narendra Modi government’s new farm laws. He recalls seeing a lot of the people climbing into trees to listen to their leaders and covering their he...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by freelance journalist Mandeep Punia and BBC Hindi journalist Rajnish Kumar. The conversation begins with Rajnish’s report on widespread corruption in the Modi government’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) scheme. Rajnish explains that there was a “deep nexus” between public representatives, touts, and the government.  Mandeep then talks about his re...