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In the final episode of the podcast, all the Newslaundry reporters come together to share their thoughts. They share their experiences about how they managed to do some of their stories despite several hurdles. They also shed light on what a reporter should and should not do while reporting. While this podcast takes a pause here, they talk about preparing to return with a brand new format, with fresh ideas, and a different vibe.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:57:25 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Pratyush Deep
The Chronicles of the 4.5 Gang
Sumedha Mittal
Shivnarayan Rajpurohit
Anmol Pritam
Uttarakhand : Hindu Rashtra की टेस्ट लैब बनती देवभूमि
Basant Kumar
From Cinema to Literature: Imtiaz Ali and Manav Kaul on Good Storytelling | Jaipur Bytes Podcast
Avdhesh Kumar
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal and Pratyush Deep.
Sumedha talks about her report on Bihar’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Her investigation revealed that even after this massive exercise, the ECI has conferred wrong house numbers to lakhs of voters. This, she says, creates the perfect opportunity to fill the lacunae with fake voters. After the ECI’s SIR, over 1,000 voters in Bihar were grouped under a single non-existent house. Her investigation highlights that whatever mistakes were there in the electoral roll are still on the list even after the SIR.
Pratyush’s report highlighted Assam’s 3,000-bigha land row and the controversy around it. While the story played out on social media, with claims that the land was being handed over to the Adani Group, Pratyush’s report reveals that it is, in fact, Mahabal Cement that had ownership of the land.
In another report from Assam, Pratyush follows the complainants behind recent FIRs against journalists, who ostensibly had links to the BJP or the RSS student wing ABVP.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:06 - Loopholes in SIR
00:23:30 - Illegal land allotment
00:33:54 - FIRs against Journalists
00:44:25 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Sumedha
EP-339 | Political Pressure, TRP War, Media Credibility & Influencers vs Journalists | Kalli Purie
Pratyush
The Rebel Army Behind One of the World’s Major Rare Earth Supplies
Basant
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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Ashish Anand.
Avdhesh discusses his report on a protest against the Supreme Court’s August 11 order to remove all stray dogs from the Delhi-NCR region. Disheartened dog lovers protested at Connaught Place, where protesters were confronted by the Delhi Police, who detained them. Avdesh says that this is the first time that religious slogans have been heard in such a protest.
Talking about his other report on UP police’s new model of “justice”, called Half Encounter or Operation Langda, Avdesh mentions how the police shoot suspects in one of their legs to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police arrest them. He says people are framed in a false case, and the police script a fake encounter to appear real.
Ashish shares his experience reporting from ground zero in Uttarakhand’s Dharali village, which was cut off after multiple floods hit the region. There was no road and phone connectivity, the power supply was cut off, and the supply of essential goods had come to a halt. He describes the trials of the residents, whose homes were destroyed and relatives went missing.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:28 - Protest for Dogs
00:06:51 - Uttarakhand disaster
00:23:54 - Half Encounter
00:36:50 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Ashish
Avdhesh
'We finally feel accepted’: Gujarat village ends Dalit haircut ban; elders back move
Anmol
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Naresh Kumar.
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This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Avdhesh Kumar and Sumedha Mittal.
Avdhesh talks about his first story in the series ‘Half Encounter’, or what the Uttar Pradesh Police call “Operation Langda”, which is a practice where police shoot suspects in the leg to capture them alive. Once hit, the accused collapses, and the police make the arrest.
“Hemant, a young DJ from Mathura, was wrongfully picked up by UP police and shot in the leg,” says Avdesh, who elaborated on the details of the fake encounter. He said 9,467 suspects were shot in the leg by UP police under the operation since 2017.
Sumedha discusses her report, which reveals that the LG of Jammu and Kashmir spent Rs 70 crore on print ads, with Rs 12 crore worth of ads given to just five newspapers. “There is a concern over the discrimination in how ad money is distributed in Kashmir. The top three dailies that received the most ad money had overwhelmingly pro-LG Manoj Sinha and pro-Modi coverage,” she said.
Avdesh also talks about his coverage of the recent protests by SSC students and teachers over multiple last-minute exam cancellations, the selection of a blacklisted vendor, failure to issue admit cards on time, and poor administrative coordination.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:10 - Half Encounter Story
00:16:21 - Kashmir Newspaper Ads
00:26:11 - SSC protests
00:31:08 - Half Encounter
00:32:30 - Recommendations
Avdhesh
Annihilation of Caste - Dr. BR Ambedkar
Insurance scams: मरे हुए 'ज़िंदा', ठगे गए परिवार, कहां तक फैले हैं घोटाले के तार?- ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट
Sumedha
Shivnarayan
Exclusive: India’s e-waste mirage, ‘crores in corporate fraud’ amid govt lapses, public suffering
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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Drishti Choudhary and Sumedha Mittal.
Drishti reported on how elite societies in Delhi have encroached on public footpaths. During visits to several gated colonies, she found that sidewalks next to posh homes were taken over by landlords – with parked cars, potted plants, guard booths, and other structures eating into public space. In some cases, the encroachments even forced roads to become one-way. She pointed out the stark double standard: while the government is quick to demolish slums and informal settlements, it turns a blind eye to violations by the well-off.
Sumedha discussed her report on the detention of Bengali and Assamese migrant workers in Gurugram in makeshift centres. She found that Bengali-speaking Muslims, especially those living in slums across Delhi and Gurugram, have been detained on suspicion of being undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants. Families allege that police arrived at midnight, demanded identity papers, and in some cases picked up individuals despite them showing valid documents – including voter IDs, Aadhaar cards, and passports. No formal notice was given.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:38 - Elite encroachment
00:25:45 - Detained migrants
00:33:20 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Sumedha
H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
Drishti
Pratyush
Pedestrian zones as driveways, parking lots: The elite encroachments Delhi won’t touch
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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by journalist Umesh Kumar Ray and Anmol Pritam.
Umesh shares his experience of reporting from ground zero in Bihar, where the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls is underway ahead of the assembly elections. The way this massive exercise is being carried out, he says, is burdening the state’s people who are forced to prove their citizenship, creating a panic-like situation.
Anmol talks about his report on the chaos that unfolded after a piece of onion was found in a meal served to the Kanwariyas at the Baba Balaknath Dhaba in Muzaffarnagar, which triggered vandalism of the dhaba, resulting in smashed chairs, tables, fridges, fans, and glass panels by the mob. The owner claimed that the Kanwariyas not only vandalised the dhaba but also brutally attacked their staff with hockey sticks, with a 40-year-old staff member ending up with a broken leg.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:26 - SIR in Bihar
00:21:28 - Kanwariyas and Chaos
00:35:56 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Anmol Pritam
Uttarakhand : Hindu Rashtra की टेस्ट लैब बनती देवभूमि | Ground Report
Basant Kumar
The RSS Does Not Exist Mapping the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation
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NL Team
This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslaunndry’s Prateek Goyal, and Basant Kumar.
Reporting from Bhiwandi, Maharashtra, Prateek uncovers a chilling case of alleged police brutality that led to the death of Sadiq Ali Jafri. While the police claim Jafri died of natural causes, his wife and family allege he was killed in a police chokehold as part of a deliberate cover-up. They say the family was harassed in the aftermath – Sadiq’s father was jailed for over a year, one brother remains behind bars, and his wife, Saiba, is now battling a hostile system in her fight for justice.
Prateek’s investigation reveals how the police allegedly tampered with the postmortem report and fabricated witnesses to shield themselves. This harrowing story is part of Newslaundry’s NL Sena series on police impunity.
Meanwhile, Basant reports from Gujarat, uncovering how Muslims remain trapped under the Disturbed Areas Act. In Vadodara, he tells the story of Onali, a local who has spent years fighting to take possession of land he legally purchased.
Onali and his brother-in-law bought a plot in Champaner Darwaza, Fatehpura, back in 2016. But when Onali applied to the deputy collector’s office for permission to transfer the property, as required under the Disturbed Areas Act, his request was denied. He has since been caught in a relentless loop of court hearings and police visits, struggling to claim what is rightfully his.
Onali believes the opposition from local Hindu residents is the key reason behind the continued deadlock.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:29 - How Muslims struggle to buy property in Gujarat
00:09:01 - I can’t breathe: Maharashtra man’s ‘last words in police chokehold’
00:35:04 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Prateek
Basant
How Muslims struggle to buy property in Gujarat
Anmol
How Muslims struggle to buy property in Gujarat
Produced and edited by Tista Roy Chowdhury, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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NL Team
This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by The Caravan’s Sunil Kashyap, and Jatinder Kaur Tur.
Jatinder reports from Kashmir, where three bodies of locals who were in police detention surfaced in the Veshaw River. Following the Pahalgam terror attack, Kashmiris felt being suspected and criminalised. Amid rampant arrests and deaths, families like that of Nazir Ahmad Magray – whose 20-year-old son was taken in a night raid by the Jammu and Kashmir Police’s Special Operations Group – have been left shattered.
“We are talking about three brothers [and one man] who went missing and there was no believable story from the police. It is said that they drowned in Veshaw river or naala, which was completely dry and no one could have drowned there,” says Jatinder.
Meanwhile, Sunil's report uncovers an unseen, unheard truth from Bihar. At Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi Mahavihara – a sacred Buddhist site – Buddhist monks and Dalit-Bahujan groups are protesting the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, which mandates Hindu involvement in managing the temple. This stems from centuries of Hindu appropriation of the site, despite its centrality to Buddhism. “The Hindu Sangh sees Buddhism, not Islam, as its biggest ideological challenge,” says Sunil.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:02 - Kashmir police silences questions as bodies emerge from the Veshaw River
00:20:59 - The Bodh Gaya Protest
00:45: 37 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Jatinder
Sunil
In 6 months, Fadnavis seat added 29,219 voters. Poll staff claim lapses
A flurry of new voters? The curious case of Kamthi, where the Maha BJP chief won
Sumedha
A border ran through it: The life and lonely death of an 80-year-old Kashmiri man
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This week’s host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and Basant Kumar.
Prateek talks about his report on the increasing interference of Hindutva outfits in the Christian schools of Madhya Pradesh. The situation, he explains, has worsened to such an extent that it has led to FIRs against school authorities, and even raids, and vandalism in schools. Even teachers are threatened by students, Prateek adds.
Basant reported from ground zero in Ahmedabad, where the Air India plane crashed killed more than 270 people. He shares his experience of talking to families who lost their loved ones and how difficult it was for the authorities to match DNAs of the people who got killed in the crash with their families. Another report from Ahmedabad looked at how the everyday lives of 17 people, who weren’t passengers, were also cut short in an instant in the plane crash.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:56 - Vandalism in Christian schools
00:06:15 - Ahmedabad plane crash
00:33:20 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Prateek
Air India crash: Casualties that weren’t passengers
Basant
In 6 months, Fadnavis seat added 29,219 voters. Poll staff claim lapses
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Sumedha Mittal.
Shivnarayan talks about his profile of BJP president JP Nadda, diving deep into his rise from an ABVP worker to the president of the world’s largest political party. He also sheds light on the Chetna Sansthan, an NGO run by Nadda’s wife which received significant corporate and government-linked CSR funding after the BJP came to power.
Sumedha talks about her report which looks at an unusual surge in the number of voters in Devendra Fadnavis’s constituency in Nagpur South West between the 2024 Lok Sabha and Maharashtra elections. A section of poll staff told her about alleged lapses in the manner these voters were added to the electoral rolls.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:36 - J P Nadda
00:21:59 - Unusual spike in the voter roll
00:33:20 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Shivnarayan
Sumedha
Pratyush
The Bilaspur blueprint: JP Nadda’s political rise and the parallel growth of his family-run NGO
In 6 months, Fadnavis seat added 29,219 voters. Poll staff claim lapses
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This week, host Avdhesh Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Sumedha Mittal, BBC’s Abhinav Goel and reporter Akansha Kumar.
Abhinav presents an in-depth report on the true death toll of the Mahakumbh Mela tragedy that happened in January. While the Uttar Pradesh government has officially acknowledged 37 deaths due to the stampede, BBC’s investigation has uncovered at least 82 fatalities so far. Despite government promises, many of the victims' families have yet to receive the promised compensation.
Akansha uncovers allegations of police impunity in Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh. Her deep dive into police encounters in Uttar Pradesh reveal chilling accounts from families who lost loved ones in suspected extrajudicial killings.
Several families allege that police not only carried out unlawful encounters but also attempted to silence them with bribes. Many of these encounters took place in the same location: Goonghwa Ka Bagh in Kaushambi. Affected families are running from pillar to post in their fight for justice and accountability.
Meanwhile, Sumedha brings a sharply different story from Delhi. Since his appointment as Lieutenant Governor in May 2022, VK Saxena was known for publicly targeting the AAP-led government over civic issues. However, his stance appears to have softened following the BJP’s rise to power in February 2025.
Sumedha’s report explores this shift in tone – tracing how the LG's confrontational approach has evolved and what it reveals about the changing political dynamics in the capital.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:04 - Beyond 82: The Controversy Over Kumbh Stampede Casualties
00:31:20 - Encounter Raj in UP: A Deep Dive into Its Persistent Reality
00:52:24 - Dynamics Between Delhi's LG and the Ruling Party: An observer’s view
00:59: 58 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Abhinav
Sumedha
Rahul Gandhi writes: Match-fixing Maharashtra
Akansha
Among the Trolls: My Journey Through Conspiracyland
Avdhesh
Dr. Ambedkar: Life And Mission
Produced and edited by Hassan Bilal and Tista Roy Chowdhury, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Anmol Pritam is joined by Newslandry’s Basant Kumar and The Reporters' Collective’s Ayushi Kar.
Ayushi talks about her report on the recent controversy between content creators and the news agency ANI. She explains how India’s guidelines on fair uses are not so publicly disclosed which leads to such disputes. Some of YouTube’s policies of fair use are also undefined that is why ANI weaponises its claim on their videos, she adds.
Basant reported on the shift of Gujarat Samachar, a prominent newspaper in Gujarat, which once stood by the then CM Narendra Modi during the 2002 Godhara riots. He explains how the nature between Modi and the organisation changed over time and the situation worsened to such an extent that it led to ED and IT searches.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:04:04 - ANI vs content creators
00:18:15 - Gujarat Samachar
00:49:39 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Ayushi
Basant
ANI Finds Business Niche In Copyright Claims Against YouTubers
पहली बार सांसद बने बृजभूषण सिंह के बेटे को मिला मंत्रियों वाला बंगला, गेट पर अभी भी पापा का नाम दर्ज
Anmol
ANI’s news business: ‘PR’ contracts with CMs, podcasts and a quest for power
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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Anmol Pritam and The News Minute’s Nidhi Suresh.
While the rest of the country exhaled a sigh of relief at the announcement of a ceasefire in the India-Pakistan conflict, Poonch held its breath – and bled quietly.
Nidhi and Anmol were on the ground, when the cross-border shelling began. Thirteen lives were lost. Thirteen names that won’t make it into strategic briefings or celebration speeches. Parents buried their twins, Zain Ali and Urwa Fatima – born five minutes apart, and died five minutes apart. In another home, a wedding that was about to be planned turned into a funeral when the father of the bride-to-be never came home.
These aren’t just tragic anecdotes. This is the aftermath of a conflict that never really ends for the people living on its edge. Nidhi and Anmol’s reports on the families in both the city and the villages reveal that all of them carry the same expression – numb, disbelief, and tired of being forgotten. Their stories don’t scream, they ache. And in that ache lies a quiet question: why is Poonch always left behind?
They came back with more than interviews. They came back with grief, with names, with stories that deserve to be told. Stories of loss, of resilience, of people who live through war long after the last gun falls silent.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:15 - From Tension to Tranquility: Ceasefire was announced
00:09:34 - Shelling without Warning: The Unseen Threat Lurked in Poonch
00:36:56 - Misinformation flooded in mainstream and social media
00:43: 58 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Nidhi
Society Girl: A Tale of Sex, Lies, and Scandal
Anmol
Basant
American Man Hunt: Osama Bin Laden
Produced and edited by Hassan Bilal, Ashish Anand and Tista Roy Chowdhury, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and Drishti Choudhary.
Prateek and Drishti have reported on the fake news being peddled on social media during the India-Pakistan conflict, following Operation Sindoor. Both of them closely tracked the misinformation campaign run on both sides of the border and analysed the deeper implications of this information warfare.
Prateek’s report looked at how Pakistan weaponised disinformation against India by underplaying aggression, claiming victimhood, and sowing seeds of disunity and repurposing it for the age of AI. Drishti, on the other hand, spoke to digital experts to report on how “misinformation and propaganda” was passed off under the garb of information warfare in India.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:46 - Misinformation against India
00:16:20 - Misinformation against Pakistan
00:27:11 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Drishti
Prateek
Pratyush
Is the reign of the dollar over?
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Shivnarayan Rajpurohit is joined by Newslaundry’s Pratyush Deep and reporter Ankita Dhar Karmakar.
Pratyush reported on the mining mafia that built two illegal roads through forests and farms in the Aravallis. He explains how this violated rules and regulations, and it “enables the mining mafia to exploit the location and situation”, given its geographical location. “This illegal mining is not just done by mafias but also a nexus of local politicians and some government administrations are involved,” he says.
Ankita talks about her report on the falling standards of Delhi School of Journalism, established with the hope of being India’s Columbia School of Journalism. She says it’s plagued by poor infrastructure, ill-equipped classrooms and high fees. She also explains how over half of its governing body is populated by members linked to the BJP or RSS.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:13 - Mining mafia in the Aravallis
00:06:42 - Delhi School of Journalism
00:33:23 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Ankita
Pratyush
An elephant never forgets his phandi
Shivnarayan
2 roads expose how forests, farms and laws were flattened for Aravallis’ mining mafia
Repression, Hindutva and the fall of Delhi School of Journalism
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalists Tanzil Asif, Neetu Singh and Sagar Patel, who talk about working in mainstream media, why they quit it and decided to go independent.
Legacy media, Tanzil says, only focuses on feeding their agenda rather than serving public interest, making a journalist morally corrupt. Neetu explains that mainstream media restricted her freedom to report because it lacked the guts to hold the government accountable. Some reporters, however, are just fooling people by pretending to be independent journalists, remarks Sagar.
They talk of their challenges in opting to work in independent media after exiting mainstream media. Despite lack of resources, hurdles in reporting and problems in their establishing and running their organisations, they say their decision to quit legacy media was most satisfactory.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:02 - Reasons for exiting mainstream media
00:12:28 - Challenges for independent media
00:23:24 - Hurdles for being independent journalist
00:56:48 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Neetu
Pahalgam Attack में मारे गए Shubham Dwivedi की पत्नी Aishanya Dwivedi ने हमले के बारे में क्या बताया
Sagar
કણબી પટેલોના નાક વાઢવાની હચમચાવી દે તેવી કહાણી| Journalist Naresh Shah | Patidar Samaj History Video
Tanzil
BAKKHO Documentary | A Pasmanda Muslim Story | बक्खो | पसमांदा मुस्लिम की कहानी | Bihar Caste Census
Basant
What Killed Mukesh Chandrakar - The Reporters' Collective
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by The News Minute’s Anjana Meenakshi and Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit.
Anjana talks about her report on Isha home schools being run by Jaggi Vasudev, where alleged cases of molestation and sexual assault unfolded. She explains how these misconducts led to traumatic experiences for some, but there is a lack of a grievance redressing mechanism within the organisation. She finds the functional body of the school to be an absurd way of spiritual business.
Shivnarayan reported on the legal fight between electronic companies and the government in the Delhi High Court over the new e-waste policy. Some electronic companies like Havells, Voltas, Dainkin, Hitachi, Bluestar, LG, and Samsung challenged the Indian government’s 2024 amendment to e-waste management rules, where the government fixed the minimum and maximum price caps for recycling their waste to meet their recycling targets. Companies argue that the government’s decision is arbitrary.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:23 - Isha home schools
00:16:38 - E-waste case
00:30:11 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Anjana
Supreme Whispers: Supreme Court Judges
Shivnarayan
‘Thought they were Army, but they opened fire’: Survivors recount Pahalgam horror
Sumedha
A storm brews at Isha Foundation: Sexual assault allegations and countercharges
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.
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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalist Vishnu Narayan.
Vishnu breaks down how political parties are gearing up for a high-voltage election in Bihar. He analyses how political players are trying to finetune their strategies to get different caste groups on their side. He also talks about former civil servants jumping into the political arena and how that can affect the fortunes of the parties in the fray.
He sheds light on how the incumbent chief minister’s age will affect his party’s prospects. “Like him or not, you can’t ignore him,” Vishnu says about CM Nitish Kumar.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:52 - Political slugfest in Bihar
00:44:37 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Vishnu
Basant
द जननायक Karpoori Thakur: वॉयस ऑफ वॉयसलेस किताब के लेखक Santosh Singh से बातचीत
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 Shivanarayan Rajpurohit, independent journalists Ashfaque EJ and Saurabh Kumar.
Shivnarayan talks about his report that uncovers how an Adani subsidiary gained access to its controversial power plant site in Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur through a forest department road – without obtaining the required forest clearance that would precede such arrangements. “Experts say that the project and road leading up to it will cause a lot of damage to the surrounding flora and fauna,” he says.
Saurabh and Ashfaque’s documentary follows five of the 18 anti-CAA activists accused of orchestrating violence during the 2020 Delhi riots.
“Through our documentary, we wanted to show that the Delhi police, to cover up its inefficiency in containing the violence during the 2020 Delhi unrest, booked these activists,” says Saurabh. He adds that the FIRs against the activists is not based on “concrete proof” and has “several loopholes”.
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This week, host Pratyush Deep is joined by Newslaundry’s Priyanka Ishwari and The Quint’s Tanishka Sodhi.
They talk about their story on Outlook’s transformation from a news magazine that once reported hard-hitting stories and exposed some of India’s biggest scandals to a magazine that focuses more on features, poetry now.
Priyanka says several former Outlook journalists haven’t read the magazine in ages “because they don’t think it makes any noise anymore”.
Noting that Outlook hadn’t been doing great work after Vinod Mehta’s editorship ended in 2015, Tanishka says under its current editor, Chinki Sinha, the magazine has taken even a “more unpleasant turn”.
She also talks about her interview with comedian Daniel Fernandes in the wake of the Kunal Kamra controversy. She notes that even though the comedy landscape is booming, space for political comedy is shrinking because “people are scared”.
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00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:24 – Outlook’s vanishing edge
00:23:15 – State of political comedy
00:33:28 – Recommendations
Recommendations
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