NL Hafta

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News and News on the news. New ways to present the news. Slants, compromises, biases, praise, brickbats and anything else. Here nothing is off limits. We say it like it is and appreciate others who do. News isn’t fair unless its transparent and no information is interesting unless its fun.

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Chhota Hafta 311: Farmer pr...

01.16.2021

This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by former Newslaundry reporter Rahul Kotiyal, who currently works with Dainik Bhaskar. Starting off with new developments in the farmer protests at ...

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01.16.2021 Chhota Hafta 311: Farmer protests, WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, and high court judgement on Special Marriage Act This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by former Newslaundry reporter Rahul Kotiyal, who currently works with Dainik Bhaskar. Starting off with new developments in the farmer protests at ...
01.09.2021 Chhota Hafta 310: Capitol riots, Julian Assange, and approval to the Central Vista project This week on NL Hafta, it's an all-Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam. The conversation starts with the big news of Trump supporters storming the Capitol in Washington DC. Abhinandan and Raman ...
01.02.2021 Chhota Hafta 309: Kashmir elections, Rahul Gandhi, ‘love jihad’ laws, and highs and lows of 2020 This week on NL Hafta, it's an all-Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Jayashree Arunachalam. The conversation starts with Mehraj explaining how the recently concluded District Development Council elections in Kashmir were aimed ...
12.26.2020 Chhota Hafta 308: New strains of Covid, government responses to the pandemic, justice in India, and Rajinikanth This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Priyanka Pulla, an independent journalist, and Jammi N Rao, an independent public health physician. The conversation begins with the detection of new strains ...
12.19.2020 Chhota Hafta 307: Farmer protests, Bodoland accord, and parliament session cancelled This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kripal and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Patricia Mukhim, the editor of the Shillong Times. The conversation begins with Patricia explaining why she resigned from the Editors Guild of India. ...
12.12.2020 Hafta 306: Farmer protests, Central Vista, and #TooMuchDemocracy Timecodes 2:37 - Headlines 6:08 - Farmer's Protest 21:59 - Arvind Kejriwal on House Arrest 30:48 - Love Jihad 35:15 - Central Vista Project 50:44 - Jallikattu Goes For Oscar 52:35 - DGCI Asks Serum And Bharat Biotech For More ...
12.05.2020 Hafta 305: Farmer protests, the media’s coverage of it, and Amit Malviya’s ‘manipulated media’ tweet Timecodes 04:35 - Headlines 09:15 - Farmer protests 13:01 - Media coverage of farmer protests 1:04:03 - Rajinikanth to launch political party in January 1:05:43 - UN secretary general Antonio Gutteres’ speech on the environment 1:09:26 - Amit Malviya's tweet ...
11.28.2020 Hafta 304: Cyclone Nivar, farmer protests, and ‘love jihad’ laws Timecodes 4:14 - Headlines 7:51 - Cyclone Nivar hits Chennai and Puducherry 14:43 - Kerala withdraws Police Act amendment 28:57 - Farmer protests 44:05 - Jallikattu goes to the Oscars 47:24 - UP brings ‘love jihad’ ordinance 1:12:15 - ED ...
11.21.2020 Hafta 303: Covid vaccines, the state of the Indian media, and the government’s attempts to regulate it Timecodes 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 11:18 - The current race for vaccines 28:22 - Freedom of speech and state of Indian media 01:04:12 - Subscriber letters 01:20:39 - India not being part of the RCEP 01:27:53 - Chitra and ...
11.14.2020 Hafta 302: Biden vs Trump, Bihar election results, and Arnab Goswami’s bail Timecodes 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 08:50 - Biden’s win in the US presidential election 42:04 - Arnab’s Goswami’s arrest and bail, and freedom of speech 01:10:08 - Subscriber letters 01:41:42 - Recommendations This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan ...
11.07.2020 Hafta 301: Arnab Goswami’s arrest, France and Vienna attacks, and the Bihar Assembly election Timestamps 03:16 - Headlines 05:31 - Bihar election 40:48 - Arnab Goswami arrested by Mumbai police 01:03:56 - France and Vienna attacks 01:04:48 - Subscriber mails 01:06:16 - France And Vienna attacks 01:10:17 - Recommendations 01:11:13 - Subscriber mails 01:12:46 ...
10.31.2020 Hafta 300: Bihar Assembly election, France and Islam, and the 2+2 India-US talks Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction and headlines 10:09 - The shooting at Munger and Bihar's election dynamics 33:02 - Subscriber letters 41:54 - The pope's statement on same-sex civil unions 45:55 - College student’s murder in Faridabad, media coverage 58:47 - ...
10.24.2020 Hafta 299: Zee News on Delhi riots, federalism in India, and the state of Opposition parties in Kashmir Help us understand what you like, or dislike, about NL Hafta before it goes behind the paywall again. Take the survey here. This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Mehraj D Lone are joined ...
10.17.2020 Hafta 298: Hyderabad floods, the TRPs scam, and the Tanishq ad Help us understand what you like, or dislike, about NL Hafta before it goes behind the paywall again. Take the survey here. This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by ...
10.10.2020 Hafta 297: Caste violence in India, media coverage of Hathras, and the Bihar Assembly election This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Kiruba Munusamy, Supreme Court advocate and activist. The conversation kicks off with Kiruba explaining the project she’s working on now, researching caste. ...
10.03.2020 Hafta 296: Hathras rape case, Babri Masjid verdict, and the Trump-Biden presidential debate This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Nisha Susan, journalist, author and founder of The Ladies Finger. The conversation begins with the Hathras rape. Manisha details the suffering ...
09.26.2020 Hafta 295: Farm bills, state of the media, and the NCB’s drug probe This week on NL Hafta, the usual team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by Newslaundry’s Jayashree Arunachalam and author Chetan Bhagat. The discussion starts off with the economic slowdown in India. Chetan says, ...
09.19.2020 Hafta 294: Covid-19, Sudarshan TV, and the Delhi riots investigation This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Raman Kirpal are joined by Abantika Ghosh, journalist with ThePrint and Revati Laul, an independent journalist and author of The Anatomy of Hate. The discussion begins with the current situation of ...
09.12.2020 Hafta 293: The path to economic recovery, Kangana Ranaut’s office demolition, and print vs TV news media This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, and Raman Kirpal are joined by M. K. Venu, founding editor of The Wire to discuss the recession, the state of the media, and everything that happened this ...
09.05.2020 Hafta 292: Meghalaya’s maternal and neonatal mortality crisis, Pranab Mukherjee, and India’s GDP On this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Patricia Mukhim, editor of Shillong Times. Patricia opens the conversation by providing insight into Meghalaya’s maternal and neonatal mortality crisis. She ...
08.29.2020 Hafta 291: Covid vaccine and community transmission, Bloomsbury India, and the NEET-JEE exam row This week’s episode of NL Hafta features an all-star panel of Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal. They are joined by Banjot Kaur, health and public policy correspondent for Down To Earth magazine. ...
08.22.2020 Hafta 290: Facebook’s influence and control, Wall Street Journal on Ankhi Das, and Gunjan Saxena This week on NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News. First up, the panel discusses the Wall Street Journal report on political partisanship within Facebook India. The ...
08.15.2020 Hafta 289: Attack on Caravan journalists, Kamala Harris, and Zomato’s ‘period leave’ policy In this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of the Caravan magazine. The conversation begins with an analysis of the events surrounding ...
08.08.2020 Hafta 288: Media's coverage of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan In this week’s episode, the in-house panel featuring Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kripal is joined by Mayank Shekhar, a film critic and recipient of the ‘Ramnath Goenka Award. He’s also the author of Amazon’s bestselling book, ‘Name Place ...
08.01.2020 Hafta 287: The Dalit identity and Indian politics, New Education Policy, and more In this week’s Newslaundry’s panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kripal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suraj Yengde, an award winning scholar, author, and activist in the field of caste, race, and ethnicity studies and labour migration in ...
07.25.2020 Hafta 286: Assam floods, contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan, Covid sero survey, and more In this week’s NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande are joined by Sushanta Talukdar, editor of NEZINE, an online magazine focusing on India’s Northeast region. The discussion starts off with the Assam floods, ...
07.18.2020 Hafta 285: Chabahar-Zahedan project, Rajasthan political crisis, cancel culture, and more In this week’s NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kripal, Mehraj D Lone, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suhasini Haider, diplomatic editor of the Hindu. The conversation kicks off with discussing how Iran dropped India from the ...
07.11.2020 Hafta 281: India-China conflict, Sushant Singh Rajput, reporting on suicide, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by two guests: Mohan Guruswamy, author and chairman-founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives & The Guruswamy Center, and ...
07.11.2020 Hafta 284: Vikas Dubey, CBSE’s revised syllabus, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and more In this week’s NL Hafta, the Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande discuss gangster Vikas Dubey’s arrest, Jyotiraditya Scindia’s speech, and cancel culture. The discussion starts with Scindia naming former chief ministers Kamal ...
07.04.2020 Hafta 283: Thoothukudi custodial deaths, police brutality in India, Sopore photograph, and more In this week’s NL Hafta, the Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Sandhya Ravishankar, award-winning journalist and editor of the Lede. The conversation centres on police brutality in ...
07.04.2020 Hafta 280: Baghjan fire, healthcare in Delhi, J&K’s media policy, and more In this week’s NL Hafta, the Newslaundry team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone and Raman Kirpal are joined by Anoo Bhuyan, a reporter with IndiaSpend currently writing on healthcare. Among other things, the panel talks about the ...
06.29.2020 Hafta 282: India-China conflict, Patanjali’s Coronil, Jagannath Rath Yatra, and more In this edition of Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone and Raman Kirpal are joined by Ajai Shukla, a defence journalist, former colonel of the Indian army, and current consulting editor at Business Standard. The panel discusses ...
06.27.2020 Chhota Hafta 282 In this edition of Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone and Raman Kirpal are joined by Ajai Shukla, a defence journalist, former colonel of the Indian army, and current consulting editor at Business Standard. Ajai explains the ...
06.27.2020 Hafta 279: George Floyd, content moderation on social media, bigotry at home, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande are joined by Emily Schmall, South Asia correspondent for the Associated Press. The panel discusses the murder of George Floyd and the protests ...
06.20.2020 Hafta 278: Cyclone Amphan, rerouting of Shramik Special trains, India-China dispute, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Shoaib Daniyal, associate editor at Scroll. The panel starts with a discussion on Cyclone Amphan and the resultant devastation in West Bengal. ...
06.20.2020 Chhota Hafta 281 In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by two guests: Mohan Guruswamy, author and chairman-founder of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Tanmoy Goswami, the Correspondent’s ...
06.13.2020 Chhota Hafta 280 In this week’s NL Hafta, the Newslaundry team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone and Raman Kirpal are joined by Anoo Bhuyan, a reporter with IndiaSpend currently writing on healthcare. While explaining how the fire in the Baghjan ...
06.06.2020 Chhota Hafta 279 In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande are joined by Emily Schmall, South Asia correspondent for the Associated Press. The panel discusses the murder of George Floyd and the protests ...
05.30.2020 Chhota Hafta 278 In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Shoaib Daniyal, associate editor at Scroll. Discussing the rerouting of Shramik Special trains, Mehraj says, “I am just at a loss. Even ...
05.27.2020 Hafta 277: India-Nepal border dispute, Covid-19 cases at Zee News, Cyclone Amphan, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by our in-house team of Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan. Discussing the recent border dispute between India and Nepal, Anand describes the dispute’s historical context ...
05.23.2020 Chhota Hafta 277 In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by our in-house team of Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan. Talking about the Covid-19 cases at Zee News, and Newslaundry’s recent report about the cluster, ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 264: Amulya Leona, Trump’s visit, AAP’s Hanuman politics, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Anand Vardhan of Newslaundry are joined by Shelly Walia, senior editor at the Quint.Rather surprisingly, this episode kicks off with a healthy debate on whether litti ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 265: Delhi violence, Trump’s visit, Weinstein’s conviction, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Raman Kirpal of Newslaundry are joined by Neha Dixit, journalist and professor at Ashoka University.The podcast starts with a discussion on media reports on the Delhi ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 266: Delhi violence, coronavirus, parliament ruckus, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Anand Vardhan, and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Kapil Komireddi, author and journalist.They start with a discussion on the Delhi violence. Abhinandan asks the panellists how precisely ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 268: Coronavirus hits India, Modi speaks, Gogoi goes to Rajya Sabha, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Mehraj D Lone of Newslaundry are joined by Suhasini Haider, diplomatic editor of the Hindu newspaper, and Dr Arjun Dang, CEO of Dr Dang’s Labs.Starting off with a discussion ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 269: India’s lockdown, the role of journalists during a crisis, police brutality, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by data journalist Rukmini S.Abhinandan begins by bringing up Rukmini’s piece in The Print where she wrote that India could see ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 276: Bois Locker Room, Atmanirbharta, changes to labour laws, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Mehraj D Lone, Raman Kirpal, and Manisha Pande are joined by Pragya Tiwari, journalist and regional director of Flint Asia. Starting off with the “Bois Locker Room” controversy, Pragya suggests that ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 275: Pulitzer Prize, Karnataka’s migrant workers, liquor stores reopening, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Yogita Limaye, the India correspondent for the BBC. The conversation begins with the gas leak in Visakhapatnam and ...
05.19.2020 Hafta 274: Fake news and TV channels, Aarogya Setu, Arnab Goswami’s interrogation, and more In this episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Madhu Trehan, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Pratik Sinha, co-founder of AltNews.Abhinandan asks what everyone thinks about the interrogation of journalists during the pandemic, Arnab Goswami being ...
05.16.2020 Hafta 273: Kashmiri journalists, Arnab Goswami on Palghar, Ramachandra Guha, and more In this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kripal, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of Kashmir Times.Abhinandan asks Anuradha how reporting is being carried out in the ...

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Chhota Hafta 311: Farmer protests, WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, and high court judgement on Special Marriage Act

Chhota Hafta 310: Capitol riots, Julian Assange, and approval to the Central Vista project

Chhota Hafta 309: Kashmir elections, Rahul Gandhi, ‘love jihad’ laws, and highs and lows of 2020

Chhota Hafta 308: New strains of Covid, government responses to the pandemic, justice in India, and Rajinikanth

Chhota Hafta 307: Farmer protests, Bodoland accord, and parliament session cancelled

Hafta 306: Farmer protests, Central Vista, and #TooMuchDemocracy

Hafta 305: Farmer protests, the media’s coverage of it, and Amit Malviya’s ‘manipulated media’ tweet

Hafta 304: Cyclone Nivar, farmer protests, and ‘love jihad’ laws

Hafta 303: Covid vaccines, the state of the Indian media, and the government’s attempts to regulate it

Hafta 302: Biden vs Trump, Bihar election results, and Arnab Goswami’s bail

Hafta 301: Arnab Goswami’s arrest, France and Vienna attacks, and the Bihar Assembly election

Hafta 300: Bihar Assembly election, France and Islam, and the 2+2 India-US talks

Hafta 299: Zee News on Delhi riots, federalism in India, and the state of Opposition parties in Kashmir

Hafta 298: Hyderabad floods, the TRPs scam, and the Tanishq ad

Hafta 297: Caste violence in India, media coverage of Hathras, and the Bihar Assembly election

Hafta 296: Hathras rape case, Babri Masjid verdict, and the Trump-Biden presidential debate

Hafta 295: Farm bills, state of the media, and the NCB’s drug probe

Hafta 294: Covid-19, Sudarshan TV, and the Delhi riots investigation

Hafta 293: The path to economic recovery, Kangana Ranaut’s office demolition, and print vs TV news media

Hafta 292: Meghalaya’s maternal and neonatal mortality crisis, Pranab Mukherjee, and India’s GDP

Hafta 291: Covid vaccine and community transmission, Bloomsbury India, and the NEET-JEE exam row

Hafta 290: Facebook’s influence and control, Wall Street Journal on Ankhi Das, and Gunjan Saxena

Hafta 289: Attack on Caravan journalists, Kamala Harris, and Zomato’s ‘period leave’ policy

Hafta 288: Media's coverage of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death and the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan

Hafta 287: The Dalit identity and Indian politics, New Education Policy, and more

Hafta 286: Assam floods, contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan, Covid sero survey, and more

Hafta 285: Chabahar-Zahedan project, Rajasthan political crisis, cancel culture, and more

Hafta 281: India-China conflict, Sushant Singh Rajput, reporting on suicide, and more

Hafta 284: Vikas Dubey, CBSE’s revised syllabus, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and more

Hafta 283: Thoothukudi custodial deaths, police brutality in India, Sopore photograph, and more

Hafta 280: Baghjan fire, healthcare in Delhi, J&K’s media policy, and more

Hafta 282: India-China conflict, Patanjali’s Coronil, Jagannath Rath Yatra, and more

Chhota Hafta 282

Hafta 279: George Floyd, content moderation on social media, bigotry at home, and more

Hafta 278: Cyclone Amphan, rerouting of Shramik Special trains, India-China dispute, and more

Chhota Hafta 281

Chhota Hafta 280

Chhota Hafta 279

Chhota Hafta 278

Hafta 277: India-Nepal border dispute, Covid-19 cases at Zee News, Cyclone Amphan, and more

Chhota Hafta 277

Hafta 264: Amulya Leona, Trump’s visit, AAP’s Hanuman politics, and more

Hafta 265: Delhi violence, Trump’s visit, Weinstein’s conviction, and more

Hafta 266: Delhi violence, coronavirus, parliament ruckus, and more

Hafta 268: Coronavirus hits India, Modi speaks, Gogoi goes to Rajya Sabha, and more

Hafta 269: India’s lockdown, the role of journalists during a crisis, police brutality, and more

Hafta 276: Bois Locker Room, Atmanirbharta, changes to labour laws, and more

Hafta 275: Pulitzer Prize, Karnataka’s migrant workers, liquor stores reopening, and more

Hafta 274: Fake news and TV channels, Aarogya Setu, Arnab Goswami’s interrogation, and more

Hafta 273: Kashmiri journalists, Arnab Goswami on Palghar, Ramachandra Guha, and more

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