Newslaundry Interviews

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गुजरात विधानसभा चुनावों पर हम एक और मॉर्निंग शो लेकर आए हैं. इस एपिसोड में हमारे साथ मोरबी के स्थानीय लोग शामिल हुए. बता दें कि मोरबी पुल हादसे में 135 लोगों की जान चली गई. यह पुल 31 अक्टूबर को गिर गया था. वहां वर्तमान में क्या स्थिति है इसके लिए न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री की टीम ने मोरबी का दौरा किया. जहां हमने वहां के लोगों से बात की और पूछा कि क्या मोरबी हादसे का असर गुजरात चुनाव पर भी पड़ेगा?

मोरबी में लोगों के दिलों में क्या है, वह किसे वाट करना चाहते हैं, उनके मुद्दे क्या हैं, क्या मोरबी पुल हादसे के बाद वहां कोई बदलाव आया है. ऐसे सभी सवालों के जवाब जानने के लिए हमारा यह पूरा मॉर्निंग शो देखिए.

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In the final episode of Back In Time, Kunal Kamra sits down with Prasoon Pandey – his former boss, mentor and among the most iconic ad filmmakers – to chat about the Times of India ad campaign. They discuss Prasoon’s inspiration and how he convinced the brand to take such a different approach.

“Because you weren’t personal, because you weren’t bitter, your pieces had a life of its own,” he says about portraying the common man’s anger in the ad. He also talks about how cartoonist RK Laxman inspired him, why never using a smartphone makes him a better storyteller, and how advertising has changed over the decades.

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On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

The panel discussion titled “Negotiations with Security Laws” was moderated by Vakasha Sachdev, lawyer and editorial lead of Logically. She was joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, journalist and political editor of the Caravan, and Vrinda Grover, human rights lawyer and activist.

The panel discussed the sedition law and why it needs a moratorium, how the National Security Act is misused, and why India needs law to protect against communal and targeted violence. 

“Doing the job of journalism is more difficult today than it has ever been at any point of time in our history,” Hartosh said. “The laws are secondary to the political atmosphere that exists.”

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On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

The panel discussion “Court Stories” was moderated by Abhinandan Sekhri, founder of Newslaundry. He was joined by lawyers Rebecca John and Sonam Gupta, and Alt News cofounder Pratik Sinha. 

The panel discussed how press freedom in India is impacted by the misuse of laws, how journalists are at the receiving end of threats on social media, and the legal strategies available to tackle these issues. Rebecca remembered how when she started out as a lawyer, she was told “lawyers and journalists would never be touched because they have the potential to hit back”. 

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In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with Supreme Court lawyer Meenakshi Arora, who was instrumental in formulating the Vishaka guidelines in India to help enforce gender equality in workplaces. They talk about workplace conditions for women before the guidelines and why it was important to take action.

On whether we might ever see an end to harassment in the workplace, Meenakshi says, “As long as there are genders, it won’t.” They also talk about the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial and the gender justice movement in India.

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On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

The panel discussion “Lessons from the Emergency” was moderated by independent journalist Neha Dixit. She was joined by journalist and author Kalpana Sharma and senior advocate Chandra Uday Singh. 

Kalpana explained how orders at the time “were more or less against publications and not individual journalists”. The discussion spanned how the Emergency played out, its repercussions, and the role of journalism throughout. 

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In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with TV producer and director Suhaib Ilyasi, who hosted the iconic crime show India’s Most Wanted in the late 90s and early 2000s. Suhaib talks about the show’s creation, its impact, and his reputation as one of the first TV anchors to sensationalise news.

Talking about his sting operation of actors Shakti Kapoor and Aman Verma, he says, “It was necessary to highlight the inappropriate acts young girls in Bollywood were forced to do.” Suhaib and Kunal also discuss the ethical boundaries of Suhaib’s storytelling, his departure from Indian TV, and how television news has evolved over the years.

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Kunal Kamra sits down with Shashanka Ghosh, director and former creative head of Channel V. 

“Channel V was the cool guy around,” Shashanka says, “and saying ‘ye dekh, ye dekh’ from around the world.”

They talk about what made the channel relatable to urban Indian youth, organisational challenges in an age of analog, and how fun it was to create homegrown content that wasn’t an imitation of the west. Shashanka describes the process of creating popular Channel V characters like Lola Kutty and Simpu Singh, and his transition from the small screen to the big screen.

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In this episode, Kunal Kamra sits down with eminent photojournalist Raghu Rai, who discusses what it was like to capture Indira Gandhi’s essence from her first term to her last. He talks about her unique brand of politics and how she changed over the decades. 

A turning point was the 1975 Allahabad High Court judgement that convicted Gandhi of electoral malpractices. “It was the beginning of a different Indira,” Raghu says.

He also talks about covering the JP movement, photographing Bhindranwale before Operation Blue Star, and how journalism has changed over the years.

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