Reporters Without Orders

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Prateek Goyal and Basant Kumar of Newslaundry. The conversation begins with Prateek’s report where he talks about the Hindu mob assault on a Muslim bangle seller in Indore, narrating the sequence of events that led to the attack and how the police ended up booking the poor victim for allegedly molesting a young girl. Basant discusses his report on U...

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by  Newslaundry ’s Supriti David and independent journalist Samrat X. Samrat discusses his piece  analysing  the recent violence in Shillong, Meghalaya. He details how the police’s killing, allegedly in a fake encounter, of a surrendered militant leader sparked widespread protests that culminated in violence on the streets. Samrat also analyses...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Shivangi Saxena and Ashwine Kumar Singh of Newslaundry . Shivangi talks about her report on an August 8 gathering at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar where the participants called for the wanton killing of Muslims in India. She recalls speaking with Uttam Upadhyay, one of those shouting for murder. “The Muslim community is a danger to the Hindu dharma,” Shivangi says...

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry ’s Nidhi Suresh and Akanksha Kumar. Nidhi discusses her report on the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit child in Delhi Cantt area, reconstructing the timeline and narrating what the victim’s mother told her. Nidhi says the media mustn’t overlook the fact that this is also a case of caste violence. Akanksha discusses her report on the alleged “...

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by the Wire reporter Dheeraj Mishra and Newslaundry ’s Ayush Tiwari. Dheeraj talks about his report on the Ken-Betwa link project in Bundelkhand. The project aims to solve the region’s prolonged issue of water scarcity.  Dheeraj explains that the problem lies with the government’s claim that the Ken river has surplus water at all – a claim that “isn’t ba...

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Aishwarya Iyer, a reporter with the Quint, and Monika Mondal, an independent journalist. They talk about Aishwarya’s documentary Silencing Rape , which tracks the lives of four sexual assault survivors for over a year in Uttar Pradesh’s impoverished Bundelkhand region. Reflecting on what she gathered from this reporting experience, she says, “As a societ...

This week, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Ayush Tiwari and Sidharth Singh of Newslaundry . In February 2021, the I&B ministry’s Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity presented, in the parliament, data on the Narendra Modi government’s ad spending. It shows that Republic TV and Times Now , the most watched English news TV channels in the country, got fewer ads than NewsX , India Today...

In this episode, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by  Newslaundry  reporters Nidhi Suresh and Tanishka Sodhi. Nidhi discusses her report on  Ayesha Alvi , who was compelled to move court after getting threats for converting to Islam. In this context, Nidhi talks about Deep Shrivastava, a reporter at  News 18  who was allegedly mentioned by Alvi in her petition and who  fil...

This week, Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry reporter Akanksha Kumar and freelance journalist Anand Dutt. Anand discusses his report on the alleged killing by the security forces of an Adivasi youth in Jharkhand and details the plight of the state’s Adivasi communities. On the media coverage of the killing, he explains why such atrocities rarely get wide coverage. Akanksha talks about her repo...

In this episode, hosted by Nidhi Suresh, Newslaundry reporters Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar discuss their investigation into the shady land deals of the Ram temple trust in Ayodhya. Talking about the involvement of Harish Pathak, an absconding fraudster, in one of the deals, Ayush says, "This man sells the land in front of the mayor, who should have actually done something for the absconding happ...

In this episode, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Diksha Munjal, Tanishka Sodhi and Shivangi Saxena of Newslaundry. Diksha and Tanishka talk about their report on sugarcane workers in Beed district of Maharashtra and how the pandemic has affected them. They talk about a woman who had to resume work just a day after her husband’s death to repay their debt, a rise in hysterectomies and the local gov...

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Sidharth Singh of Newslaundry. On May 31, Ramdev claimed he had scientific evidence to prove the legitimacy of ayurveda in “curing” hypertension, cancer, arthritis, thyroid issues, liver sclerosis, hepatitis, and fatty liver. He gave a slew of interviews to TV news channels to further attack modern medicine over alleged abuses of the pharmaceutical i...

In this episode, host Ayush Tewari is joined by Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar of Newslaundry . The conversation begins with Nidhi Suresh talking about her report on the Muslim staffers of a Bengaluru municipality Covid war room who were removed from their jobs at the behest of BJP MP Tejasvi Surya. She narrates the process and the possible reasons which led to the event. Basant Kumar talks about h...

In this episode, host Basant Kumar is joined by freelance journalists Mandeep Punia and Ranvijay Singh.  Mandeep begins with the farmer protests, which marked six months at Delhi’s borders this week. Explaining the role of the youth and women, he says that despite all odds, “this protest has become a process for intensifying what is right”. Mandeep and Ranvijay both criticise how legacy media...

In this episode, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Prateek Goyal of Newslaundry to discuss his series on the rise of Jaggi Vasudev, known to his devotees as Sadhguru, as one of India’s most influential godmen, and is dubious business and “spiritual” dealings .   Prateek explains how Vasudev’s rise was enabled by politicians and the media, how he used this influence to build a sprawling yoga cent...

In this episode of Reporters Without Orders, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Newslaundry 's Shivangi Saxena and Tanishka Sodhi. Shivangi talks about her experiences with Akanksha in reporting on Covid from eastern Uttar Pradesh . At Gorakhpur’s Sadar Hospital, she says, they watched people coming in from villages 200 km away. Despair was all around them, as family members were unable to procure b...

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry reporters Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar. Ayush and Basant, who are currently reporting on the Covid crisis from the western parts of Uttar Pradesh, shed light on the ground realities of the ongoing disaster. They explain the underreporting of deaths by the state , the shortage of oxygen cylinders in hospitals , people’s reluctance to get...

In this episode of Reporters without Orders, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Akanksha Kumar and Tanishka Sodhi of Newslaundry . Akanksha talks about her coverage of the unfolding Covid catastrophe in Delhi, narrating how hospitals in North Delhi are dealing with a shortage of oxygen supply and how, with the death toll rising, the crematoria are struggling to conduct funerals.  Tanishka discuss...

This episode is hosted by Basant Kumar, who is joined by Newslaundry ’s Prateek Goyal and independent Journalist Sourabh Sharma. Saurabh talks about his recent reports on Uttar Pradesh’s pandemic situation. In the capital Lucknow, he says, there’s utter helplessness and the main reason is the unpreparedness of the Adityanath government. "All of them were busy with elections, nobody paid much atten...

This episode is hosted by Nidhi Suresh, who is joined by Newslaundry ’s Parikshit Sanyal and Akanksha Kumar. Akanksha talks about her follow-up story on the Delhi riots ; she had interviewed a Muslim boy who had been forced to sing the national anthem while being assaulted by the police.  “His entire story is of gross neglect, not just by the police but also the hospital staff – both of whom...

This episode is hosted by Akanksha Kumar, who is joined by Newslaundry ’s Prateek Goyal, Tanishka Sodhi, and Diksha Munjal. The conversation starts with the recent gunfight in Chhattisgarh between security forces and Maoists. Prateek had interviewed Bastar police chief P Sundarraj on the attack, and says, “The army had clear input that battalion number 1 of Naxals has movement in the South Bastar...

This episode is hosted by Akanksha Kumar, who is joined by Ashwine Kumar Singh of Newslaundry, and Ayan Sharma, a freelance journalist based in Assam. Ayan is currently covering the Assam election for Newslaundry . Talking about his recent reports from the ground, he argues that the BJP wave doesn’t seem to be as strong as in the last election. “That doesn’t mean the BJP doesn’t have an advantage,...

In this episode, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Ayush Tiwari and BBC’s Jugal Purohit. Commenting on how Narendra Modi arrived at the decision to impose a national lockdown to contain the coronavirus pandemic, Jugals refers to a recent report by BBC that tried to find an answer to this question. “Neither the National Disaster Management Authority nor the prime minister conducted and c...

In this episode, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry’s Supriti David and Basant Kumar. The conversation begins with the reporters sharing bizarre news stories of the week, from a customer asking for refund on receiving only 12 masks when she had ordered a dozen, to fact-checking India Today’ s fact-check of Gajendra Chauhan’s tweet. Supriti then talks about her report on a temple in Chandni...

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry’s Ayush Tiwari and Akanksha Kumar. The conversation starts with Nidhi asking how Ayush feels about going back to reporting on the Delhi carnage of last year and also asks both if they think that doing the same thing over and over again and being exposed to this sort of violence desensitises them or equips them handle it with more empathy?...