Reporters Without Orders

This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by independent journalist Pranab Mondal and the Quint’s Aliza Noor.

Pranab talks about his report on the horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and the events that unfolded following the incident. He discusses how it is a culmination of mismanagement and malpractice while shedding light on the “lobby system” in hospital administration.

Aliza reported on a different aspect of the Kolkata case – about searches for the victim’s “video” trending on Google and porn sites. She says that the data shows a phenomenal surge in searches for such videos.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:13 - Kolkata horror

00:20:32 - Victim’s video search

00:38:04 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Aliza

Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste

Angry Young Men

Tanishka

Let Me Explain: What is Hema Committee report on Malayalam cinema all about?

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Ishita Pradeep.

Basant reported on a “herbal firm” which allegedly frauds youngsters in lure of a “luxurious life”. He talks about his investigation into the company’s modus operandi of network marketing and pressuring its staff for adding new members in the chain, failing which they were physically assaulted and abused.

Ishita talks about her report on the Indian media’s coverage of the Bangladesh crisis and attacks on Bangladeshi Hindu minority. She delves into the situation in the country at present and how some media outlets emphasised on the communal angle and ignored the administrative failure.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:37 - Doctor’s ‘rape’

00:14:32 - Fraud firm

00:28:51 - Bangladesh violence

00:44:47 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Ishita

Why Loiter?

Kavita Krishnan,Secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA)

Basant

No Nation for Women

Hindenburg जिन्न की चपेट में SEBI प्रमुख माधवी बुच और Vinesh Phogat को सलामी | NL Tippani 200

Anmol

Activist whose RTI flagged ‘Smriti Irani-linked Goa cafe’ alleges home ministry ‘witch-hunt’

New complaint alleges Taloja prison underbelly: ‘Mutton meals for Rs 8,000 per kg, 40% cuts, zero record’

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This week, host Dhanya Rajendran is joined by independent journalist Nidhi Suresh and The News Minute’s senior sub-editor Lakshmi Priya.

Nidhi reported on the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Malayalam film actor by six men, allegedly orchestrated by another actor. The panel discussed how these events unfolded and their impact on both the regional film industry and society. They also delved into how women actors confronted misogyny and patriarchy within Malayalam cinema.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:29 - Unmasked Malayalam cinema

00:51:19 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Lakshmi

It's Vinesh Phogat's world. We are lucky to be part of it

How Vinesh Phogat won the Olympic medal: Fought with heart, thought with head

Nidhi

An Unbelievable story of Rape

Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

Vinesh Phogat breaks silence: Everyone outside is treating me like I am a dead thing… One medal (lost) and everything is finished

Dhanya

The Many Lives of Syeda X : The Story of an Unknown Indian

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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Anmol Pritam.

Anmol has been on the ground to cover the conditions in which three UPSC students died in a flooded basement library of the Rau’s IAS coaching centre in Delhi’s Karol Bagh. He gave a detailed account of how the tragedy unfolded, the subsequent blame game, and why Delhi’s coaching hub is more of a “business model than an education model”.     

Avdhesh reported on the multiple incidents of violence involving kanwariyas. He delved into how the authorities purportedly turn a blind eye towards such incidents and give the religious groups a “free hand” as they resort to violence, leading to “a total collapse of law and order”.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:47 - Death of UPSC aspirants

00:28:43 - Kanwariya violence

00:46:06 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Anmol

Har zulm tera yaad hai

Avdhesh

Maharaja

Pratyush

Dead ‘Maoist’ talking: The aftermath of a security operation in Chhattisgarh

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by the Wire’s Sukanya Shantha.

Sukanya talks about her report on India’s prisons where prisoners were allotted work on the basis of their caste. She says that the Chief Justice of India eventually expressed concerns over the “most disturbing” practice and said he would direct the government to take action. She also delved into other such colonial rules that are still in practice. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:36 - Casteism in prisons 

00:35:05 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Sukanya

BEYOND PRISONS

Sumedha

Barred: A Prisons Project

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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.

Sumedha spoke about her report on how candidates from outside Gujarat picked centres in the state as part of an alleged NEET scam racket. She explained how NTA’s management failed as students from Odisha, Bihar, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh travelled to Gujarat and “wrote” the exam in Gujarati.

Shivnarayan reported that 14 companies that significantly bankrolled political parties in the past decade were given several government projects, some despite being banned or blacklisted earlier. He delved into how raids, extortion and murky ecosystems lead to the quid pro quo.

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:05:32 - NEET paper leak

00:15:50 - Electoral bonds

00:37:38 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Sumedha

The caste alliances that won Uttar Pradesh

Shivnarayan

‘Gujarati answers, non-Gujarati candidates’: The NEET cheat sheet at 2 centres

Seats quota, banquet halls, buses and answers: How to leak a paper in Bihar

Basant

Varchasva

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This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Avdhesh Kumar.

Basant reported on the modus operandi of gangs involved in the alleged NEET paper leak. He explains how an interstate nexus of government employees, coaching institutes, and other powerful forces orchestrate paper leaks.

Avdhesh spoke to the kin and survivors of the Hathras stampede that claimed at least 121 lives. He shares how they perceive self-styled godman Surajpal, alias Narayan Sakar Hari, alias Bhole Baba and why there is little accountability. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:58 - Paper leak

00:21:08 - Hathras stampede

00:42:46 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Basant

Maharaj

Mirzapur

Avdhesh

Russia offers compensation and citizenship to kin of Indians killed in Ukraine war 

Tanishka

‘Why leave the house? Sit at home and do path puja’ — misogyny rears its head after Hathras tragedy

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This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Tanishka Sodhi and the Hindu’s Ashna Butani.

Tanishka talks about her deep-dive on Shubhash Chandra, Zee Media founder and former Rajya Sabha MP, and the shift in his stance on the central government. She explains why his recent remarks on the dip in India’s rank on the World Press Freedom Index and the SEBI’s investigation into his alleged financial improprieties hint at souring terms between Chandra and the Modi government.   

Ashna delves into her recent report on the gender gap in owning digital devices, especially mobile phones. She says that this digital gap faced by many young women in rural India, due to conservative mindsets and stereotypes, impacts their day-to-day lives. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:57 - Subhash Chandra

00:13:15 - Digital Gap

00:31:50 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Ashna

God of Small Things

Tanishka

Sona darling

Shivnarayan

Subhash Chandra’s winds of change

A phone of her own: Digital gap’s fallout on young women in rural India

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This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by independent journalists Sunil Kashyap and Jatinder Kaur Tur. 

Sunil spoke about his report on the Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha result and how the BJP workers’ overconfidence and ignorance led to the party’s seat loss. He said Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party’s “PDA card” – reaching out to the “pichre” or backward, Dalits, and “alpashankhak” or minorities was a hit for the INDIA bloc in UP. 

Jatinder threw light on the jailed leader Amirtpal Singh’s poll campaign from behind the bars and his subsequent win from Khadoor Sahib in Punjab. She gave insights on who managed the poll campaign on the ground, what was the poll plank, and how they convinced people to vote for him.    

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00:00:00 - Introduction 

00:02:28 - Key factor behind UP Lok Sabha result 

00:32:46 - Backstory of Amritpal Singh’s election campaign 

01:05:25 - Recommendation 

Recommendations 

Jatinder Kaur Tur

Caravan June edition 

How to do the work 

Sunil Kashyap

Rajnigandha 

Sumedha Mittal 

Lapata Ladies 

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This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and independent journalists Alishan Jafri and Nidhi Suresh.

The discussion begins as Alishan talks about his report on the sense of betrayal and anger felt by NEET aspirants after 67 students scored the top rank, in a “doubtful and faulty” result. The possibility of meritorious students making it to prestigious institutes stands diminished.

The conversation moves on to the horrific rape of a minor who was sexually abused for two years, first when she was just 12 years old. The child born out of the crime reunited with his mother years later, and pushed her to file an FIR, lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding such incidents. The accused were convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail last month. Nidhi speaks about her experience covering the case.

Avdhesh chips in, talking about his report on how the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party turned around its poll fortunes in the electorally crucial state of Uttar Pradesh. It was a “PDA” formula that helped the party succeed. 

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00:00:00 - Introduction

00:02:11 - NEET Issue

00:19:30 - Battle for Justice

00:31:02 - PDA over NDA

00:46:49 - Recommendations

Recommendations

Nidhi

What binds Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan Singh, Kuldeep Sengar – a system that treats women as dispensable

Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India

Avdhesh

Muslims in India: भारत में मुस्लिम मां-बाप और उनके बच्चे अब कैसा महसूस कर रहे हैं (BBC Hindi)

How India's elections are dividing the nation | Witness Documentary

Tanishka

Exit polls, foreign investors, and stock market mayhem: What really happened?

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar

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