NL Hafta

NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here’s a little sneak peek of the complete episode where we discuss the Bihar political crisis, Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, Aadhaar card privacy, erasing Urdu in NCERT & more.

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Raman Kirpal, Newslaundry's new Managing Editor joins the regular gang of Hafta as we discuss Bihar's political crisis. Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Vardhan, Manisha Pande, Atul Chaurasia along with Raman Kirpal also discuss the Aadhaar card privacy issue; sanitising Urdu words from NCERT textbooks; Dinanath Batra And, finally, Amit Shah. Listen up, there's a song dedication in the end too.

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Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their weekly round-up of sports. Samar and Rahul discuss Indian Women's Cricket team's performance at the world cup, Indian cricket team's Sri Lanka tour, Novak Djokovic following Roger Federer’s footsteps, announced to take a break; but will it produce the same result for Djokovic as it did for Federer? All this and more on this week's Just Sports.

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The fault-lines between domestic workers and their employers in luxury apartments in gated communities was waiting to happen. From rate cards in Mumbai posh apartments to separate lifts in Gurgaon high rises, the stories have been distressing and the narratives stark. While the Devyani Khobragade-Sangeeta Richards issue barely got any reportage from the domestic worker i.e. Richards' side, the latest incident in Mahagun Moderne Society in Noida Sector 78 has brought back the festering tension. From 4.2 million domestic workers (as per 61st NSSO-National Sample Survey in 2004-5) to 20 million domestic workers as per Amod Kanth (Govt of India's Domestic Workers' Sector Skills Council) recently, the numbers are staggering, whichever way you look at it!In this recording of our Facebook Live, Biraj Swain (international development writer and consulting editor Newslaundry) discusses with Sonal Sharma ( Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and son of a domestic worker),  Dr Indu Prakash Singh (of ActionAid and leader of CityMakers campaign), Prof Sanjay Srivastava (of Institute of Economic Growth, Sociologist, writer-commentator on Urbanism) and Vivek Gopal (Books Editor with Newslaundry).They discuss the definition of domestic work, the workers' working and living conditions, the legislations (or lack of the same) regulating their work, the numbers as per different surveys and census. They focus on the recent incidents at Mahagun Moderne, the police' differential response to Zohra Bibi's FIR and the Sethis' FIR, the Noida authority's response and the local MP and India's culture minister Mahesh Sharma's statement. They also discuss if the state is promoting and perpetuating exploitation through its various omissions and commissions.They talk of the hate mongering by social media, the biased media narrative, the insular writings on the topic by most Indian writing (fiction and non-fiction) in English. They share their concern regarding the appropriation of the phrase "common (wo)man/ordinary Indian" by the rich in luxury condos. They conclude that if this othering, alienation and exploitation continues unabated then it has all the makings of a class war. Indu feels it is caste war and a war on minorities too. The discussion concludes with a passage from Harsh Mander's book Looking Away. After reading Katherine Stokket's book The Help (which was adapted into film and won Viola Davis an Oscar), Harsh writes: What deeply troubled me after I read the book was that the humiliation and exploitation suffered by domestic workers in southern US half a century earlier was, in fact, in many ways less oppressive than the daily lived experience of an estimated three million domestic workers in middle-class homes across urban India in the second decade of the 21st century. And that this causes us so little outrage.

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NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So, here’s a little sneak peek of the complete episode where we discuss the Bihar political crisis, Nitish Kumar, Tejashwi Yadav, Aadhaar card privacy, erasing Urdu in NCERT & more.

Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their weekly round-up of sports. Samar and Rahul discuss Indian Women's Cricket team's performance at the world cup, Indian cricket team's Sri Lanka tour, Novak Djokovic following Roger Federer’s footsteps, announced to take a break; but will it produce the same result for Djokovic as it did for Federer? All this and more on this week's Just Sports.

The fault-lines between domestic workers and their employers in luxury apartments in gated communities was waiting to happen. From rate cards in Mumbai posh apartments to separate lifts in Gurgaon high rises, the stories have been distressing and the narratives stark. While the Devyani Khobragade-Sangeeta Richards issue barely got any reportage from the domestic worker i.e. Richards' side, the latest incident in Mahagun Moderne Society in Noida Sector 78 has brought back the festering tension. From 4.2 million domestic workers (as per 61st NSSO-National Sample Survey in 2004-5) to 20 million domestic workers as per Amod Kanth (Govt of India's Domestic Workers' Sector Skills Council) recently, the numbers are staggering, whichever way you look at it!

In this recording of our Facebook Live, Biraj Swain (international development writer and consulting editor Newslaundry) discusses with Sonal Sharma ( Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and son of a domestic worker),  Dr Indu Prakash Singh (of ActionAid and leader of CityMakers campaign), Prof Sanjay Srivastava (of Institute of Economic Growth, Sociologist, writer-commentator on Urbanism) and Vivek Gopal (Books Editor with Newslaundry).

They discuss the definition of domestic work, the workers' working and living conditions, the legislations (or lack of the same) regulating their work, the numbers as per different surveys and census. They focus on the recent incidents at Mahagun Moderne, the police' differential response to Zohra Bibi's FIR and the Sethis' FIR, the Noida authority's response and the local MP and India's culture minister Mahesh Sharma's statement. They also discuss if the state is promoting and perpetuating exploitation through its various omissions and commissions.

They talk of the hate mongering by social media, the biased media narrative, the insular writings on the topic by most Indian writing (fiction and non-fiction) in English. They share their concern regarding the appropriation of the phrase "common (wo)man/ordinary Indian" by the rich in luxury condos. They conclude that if this othering, alienation and exploitation continues unabated then it has all the makings of a class war. Indu feels it is caste war and a war on minorities too. 

The discussion concludes with a passage from Harsh Mander's book Looking Away. After reading Katherine Stokket's book The Help (which was adapted into film and won Viola Davis an Oscar), Harsh writes: What deeply troubled me after I read the book was that the humiliation and exploitation suffered by domestic workers in southern US half a century earlier was, in fact, in many ways less oppressive than the daily lived experience of an estimated three million domestic workers in middle-class homes across urban India in the second decade of the 21st century. And that this causes us so little outrage.

This week, Abhinandan Sekhri talks to Sabrina Dhawan, who has co-written Kaminey,Ishqiya, Rangoon and Monsoon Wedding and been a consultant for Haider. She also teaches screen writing at New York University. The movie Monsoon Wedding shot her to stardom at a very young age in her career. They talk about the factors that make a film successful, what works and what does not. All this and more, discussed and dissected in this episode of the Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap.

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This week, Abhinandan Sekhri talks to Sabrina Dhawan, who has co-written Kaminey,Ishqiya, Rangoon and Monsoon Wedding and been a consultant for Haider. She also teaches screen writing at New York University. The movie Monsoon Wedding shot her to stardom at a very young age in her career. They talk about the factors that make a film successful, what works and what does not. All this and more, discussed and dissected in this episode of the Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap.

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