Newslaundry Conversations
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA catalogue of all Newslaundry podcasts and shows that hadn't found a home of their own yet. NL vs NL, NL Interviews, NL Reports, and much more.
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NL Conversation: Lawyer Sandhya Raju George on the dangers of the Franco Mulakkal judgement
January 18, 2022 10:29 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBLast week, former bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun in Kottayam 13 times, was acquitted by the Kottayam district court. The nun had alleged that despite her repeated complaints, the Catholic Church had ignored her. Five other nuns who spoke out in support of her faced retaliation from the church. Sandhya Raju George is a lawyer who was on the panel of advocates representing the nuns in the case. In this conversation with Newslaundry’s Nidhi Suresh, she talks about the acquitta...
A year in news reports: Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar on Newslaundry’s biggest stories of 2021
December 31, 2021 12:50 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBIn a year marked by protests and the pandemic, two Newslaundry correspondents – Nidhi Suresh and Basant Kumar – navigate our biggest stories of 2021, and what they learned in the process. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interview: Amit Varma on being a longform podcaster in an age of five-minute attention spans
December 23, 2021 06:17 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBIn this episode of NL Recess, writer and host of the podcast The Seen and the Unseen Amit Varma joins Chitranshu Tewari to talk about evolving media cultures and patterns in the digital space, the binaries of “bhakts” and “wokes”, and the difficult bracketing of Indian conservatism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Conversations: Vanita Kohli-Khandekar on business of news media, the need for not-for-profit journalism
December 20, 2021 11:44 - 40 minutes - 37 MBVanita Kohli-Khandekar is a journalist and author, whose book The Indian Media Business: Pandemic and After was released in October this year. In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Vanita explains the relationship between how broadcast media makes media and what the audience gets to see, the business economics of ad-funded media, and the lack of government foresight in seeing media as an industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interview: Sophie Zhang on what it took to become a Facebook whistleblower
December 01, 2021 12:12 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBSophie Zhang is a former data scientist at Facebook, now Meta, who published a series of articles in the Guardian on the social media platform’s fake engagement accounts. She alleged these often lead to interference in political elections. In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari, Sophie describes the suspicious patterns of behaviour she observed in 2019 with respect to India. On the company’s reluctance to act on matters involving fake accounts in India, she points at “political pressure a...
NL Reads: The curious case of G Sreedathan and a source called WhatsApp
November 01, 2021 19:33 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Reads: UP police thinks links, WhatsApp chats are enough to prove Siddique Kappan was conspiring with PFI
November 01, 2021 19:17 - 10 minutes - 9.42 MB1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Reads: How is ‘Justice for Hathras’ website connected to Siddique Kappan? UP police won’t tell
November 01, 2021 13:21 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBTHE SIDDIQUE KAPPAN CHARGESHEET Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interview: Kabir Bedi on his autobiography, interviewing the Beatles, and cinema culture
July 06, 2021 09:56 - 6 minutes - 5.87 MBIn this episode of NL Recess, actor Kabir Bedi joins Abhinandan Sekhri to discuss his autobiography Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life of an Actor. Kabir opens up about his unconventional upbringing and his journey of finding true companionship. He talks about his experiences in cinema in different countries, about the time he persuaded the manager of All India Radio to land himself an interview with the Beatles and a lot more. To watch the full unedited interview, subscribe to newsla...
NL Interview: Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita on prison, state repression, and UAPA
July 05, 2021 12:00 - 8 minutes - 8.26 MBIn May last year, student activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita were arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with the Delhi riots. One year later, on June 15, they were granted bail and released. Natasha and Devangana are both students at Jawaharlal Nehru University and members of Pinjra Tod, a women’s collective. In this interview with Nidhi Suresh, they talk about their experience in prison, state repression, and Pinjra Tod’s participation in the citi...
NL Interview: AS Bhasin on his latest book and the trials of researching the 1962 Sino-Indian War
July 05, 2021 09:22 - 7 minutes - 7.18 MBAvtar Singh Bhasin is a writer and historian. In this interview with Newslaundry’s Shardool Katyayan, he talks about his latest book Nehru, Tibet and China, which explores the backdrop of the 1962 Sino-Indian War and its aftermath. Bhasin talks about the time and effort he spent researching the book, and how most government documents and records about the 1962 war are classified. “Since independence,” he says, “nothing has been thrown open though it is against the archival rules which sugg...
India’s Covid vaccination policy just became political and perverse
April 23, 2021 13:23 - 11 minutes - 26.5 MBHaving different procurement channels and varying prices for vaccines threatens to undermine the inoculation programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Webinar: Why does Kobad Ghandy keep landing in prison?
April 20, 2021 10:25 - 56 minutes - 129 MBWhy does Kobad Ghandy, one of India’s most prominent communist activists and ideologues, do what he does? Why does he keep landing in prison, again and again? What’s he fighting for? What keeps him going? To discuss Kobad’s life through the prism of his book Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir, three schoolmates whose lives took dramatically varying paths were brought together by Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, in partnership with Newslaundry. Kobad, Ishaat Hussain and Gautam V...
NL Reads: ‘Can anyone keep a Brahmin’s daughter?’: In UP’s Sitapur, manhunt for a ‘love jihad’ couple
January 14, 2021 10:14 - 13 minutes - 16 MBThe Hindu Yuva Vahini is involved while a former VHP leader plans to do a ‘purification’ ceremony once the woman is found. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Reads: How UP police are using the ‘love jihad’ law arbitrarily
January 14, 2021 10:11 - 11 minutes - 13.2 MBIn at least two cases they have applied it retrospectively. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Reads: ‘We saved a girl’s honour’: How Hindu Mahasabha stopped an interfaith marriage in Lucknow
January 14, 2021 10:09 - 8 minutes - 10 MBThe Hindutva group plans to ‘monitor’ Muslim areas and encourage Hindus to buy guns for their ‘security’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Moradabad ‘love jihad’: What killed Muskan’s child?
December 20, 2020 09:52 - 21 minutes - 20.6 MBRashid and Muskan are the first interfaith couple to be held under Uttar Pradesh’s ‘love jihad law’. He spent two weeks in jail, she miscarried in a women’s shelter home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘Divide and rule won’t work’: Farmers at Tikri border have another reason to be angry
December 20, 2020 08:36 - 9 minutes - 9.99 MBThe farmers feel the Modi government is trying to ‘tear them apart’ by sowing discord. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘We’ll turn Delhi into Punjab’: Meet Singhu’s women protesters
December 20, 2020 08:29 - 8 minutes - 8.64 MBIn spite of all odds, they are determined to stay put until their demand to repeal the new farm laws is met. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interviews: Pushyamitr on his book on Bihar, Ruktapor, and what ails the state
December 18, 2020 07:43 - 53 minutes - 61.5 MBबिहार के जाने माने लेखक और कई बड़े अखबारों में रिपोर्टिंग कर चुके पुष्यमित्र जिनकी हाल ही में 'रुकतापुर' बिहार जहां थम जाता है पहिया बदलाव की हर गाड़ी का, किताब राजकाल द्वारा प्रकाशित की गई है. यह किताब बिहार के अलग-अलग चेहरे, किस्सों तथा इसके समकालीन इतिहास से लबरेज़ है. इस किताब में बिहार की समस्याओं का विस्तार से विवरण है. न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री... चित्रांशु तिवारी ने पुष्यमित्र से खास बातचीत की है. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interview: Mihir Srivastava on his ‘love jihad’ book and how media propped up this bogey
December 18, 2020 04:59 - 47 minutes - 54 MBMihir Srivastava is a journalist and writer. Formerly with Open and Tehelka, he currently works with the Patriot as a senior associate editor. In this interview with Chitranshu Tewari of Newslaundry, Mihir talks about his latest book, Love Jihadis, written with photojournalist Raul Irani, which breaks down the “love jihad” bogey in the context of western Uttar Pradesh. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A matter of trust: Why farmers want MSP written into law
December 10, 2020 12:51 - 9 minutes - 8.93 MBThe Modi government maintains it has no intention of doing away with MSP for crops. Farmers say the new laws are designed to achieve precisely that. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘Media has lost our trust’: Why protesting farmers are angry with ‘Godi media’
December 10, 2020 12:47 - 8 minutes - 7.56 MB‘Some powerful media houses have made things worse. It would have been better if they hadn’t bothered covering us.’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
‘I am fighting betrayal’: Meet the farmers marching on Delhi
December 10, 2020 12:44 - 9 minutes - 8.93 MBWhat’s driving them? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
वेबिनार: ग्रामीण अर्थव्यवस्था के डाटा का संग्रह है इंडिया डाटा पोर्टल
November 15, 2020 11:02 - 1 hour - 91.3 MBग्रामीण अर्थव्यवस्था पर हो रही रिपोर्टिंग में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा है डाटा. यह डाटा, अलग-अलग विषयों पर उपलब्ध है जो रिपोर्ट में सभी तथ्यों को पूरा करता है. इसी विषय पर न्यूज़लॉन्ड्री ने यह वेबिनार आयोजित की, जिसमें विस्तृत रूप से इस मुद्दे पर बात की गई. इस वेबिनार में मेहमान के तौर पर आईआईटी दिल्ली की एसोसिएट प्रोफेसर और लेखक रीतिका खेड़ा, गांव कनेक्शन के एसोसिएट एडिटर अरविन्द शुक्ला, स्वतंत्र पत्रकार पुष्यमित्र, पीपल आर्काइव ऑफ़ रूरल इंडियन से जुड़ीं पत्रकार मेधा काले और भारती इंस्टीट्य...
Webinar: How India’s media covers agriculture and how a data-led approach can help
October 16, 2020 13:40 - 55 minutes - 64.1 MBNewslaundry, in collaboration with the India Data Portal project of the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB, is organising a series of monthly webinars on specific datasets created by the platform, which is a one-stop open-access portal for journalists to use, interact with and visualise information, data and knowledge on agriculture and financial inclusion. The second webinar, titled “A data-led approach to India’s agri-economy”, was organised on September 25. Moderated by Newslaundry...
NL vs NL Ep 21: Will AI help or harm humanity?
October 08, 2020 14:33 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Newslaundry subscribers Atif Adam and Aprajita Singh debate whether the development of artificial intelligence will end up benefiting or harming humanity? Atif argues it will help, Aprajita...
NL Interview | Max Abrahms on the US election, Trump’s chances, and the role of the media
October 08, 2020 13:30 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBMax Abrahms is an author, associate professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University in the United States, and non-resident scholar at the Quincy Institute. In this interview with Shubh Soni, Max discusses the impending American presidential election, especially in the context of foreign policy, and the influence wielded over it by the news media. Watch the full video on newslaundry.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
NL Interview | Omar Abdullah on Kashmir, Kashmiriyat, and why Modi is no Vajpayee
September 29, 2020 12:56 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MBOmar Abdullah has served as the chief minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, as a member of parliament, and as India’s junior foreign minister. He spent months in detention after the Narendra Modi government stripped Jammu and Kashmir of the last vestiges of its autonomy and split it into two territories ruled directly by New Delhi. Over a year on, Abdullah speaks with Abhinandan Sekhri about the situation in Kashmir, and where he and his party, the National Conference, stand...
NL Interview | ‘मैं अक्सर देखता हूं Hindustan के न्यूज़ चैनलों को, और फिर सोचता हूं...’
September 28, 2020 07:55 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBAnwar Maqsood पाकिस्तानी पॉपुलर कल्चर का सबसे अज़ीम और प्रतिष्ठित नाम हैं. टेलीविज़न की दुनिया में उनके शो व्यंग्य और खासकर सियासी व्यंग्य की उत्कृष्टता का पैमाना माने जाते हैं. जब उनके तंजिया शो की बात हो तो उनके बेहद लोकप्रिय शो Loose Talk की बात करना लाजिमी हो जाता है. पाकिस्तान के मशहूर अदाकार Marhum Moin Akhtar के साथ उनका यह शो सैटायर विधा में शायद सबसे लोकप्रिय और सबसे रचनात्मक शो कहा जाएगा. इसके 417 एपिसोड हुए और सारे शो एक से बढ़कर एक. ऐसी शख्सियत के साथ इंटरव्यू एक सपने के सच होने...
Webinar: What does data tell us about Covid’s impact on India’s economy
September 14, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 70.1 MBNewslaundry, in collaboration with the India Data Portal project of the Bharti Institute of Public Policy, ISB, is organising a series of monthly webinars on specific datasets created by the platform, which is a one-stop open-access portal for journalists to access, interact with and visualise information, data and knowledge on agriculture and financial inclusion. The first webinar, titled “Indian Economy and Covid: Insights from Data” and organised on August 28, was moderated by Meghnad S,...
NL Interview: Tejinder Singh Sodhi on what Republic TV asks of its reporters, and why he left
September 08, 2020 05:53 - 42 minutes - 48.4 MBIn this interview, former Republic TV journalist Tejinder Singh Sodhi sits down with Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande to discuss the events surrounding his resignation letter, which has now become viral on social media. Tejinder Sodhi has been a journalist for about 18 years and prior to joining Republic TV he had worked for organisations like PTI, Hindustan Times and The Tribune. He is also the only Indian civilian to have studied at the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenwo...
Suraj Yengde on his book ‘Caste Matters’, Dalit representation, and caste deniers | NL Interview
September 01, 2020 07:32 - 17 minutes - 32.9 MBDr Suraj Yengde is a scholar, writer, and the author of Caste Matters. He’s a Shorenstein Centre inaugural postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative for Institutional Anti-racism and Accountability, Harvard Kennedy School, and the editor of Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. In this conversation with Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Suraj says the response to his book has been “interesting”. He didn’t expect people to be this interested in caste issues, especially in India, he says, w...
NL Interview: Barkha Dutt on covering migrant crisis, the media economy, and falling out with promoters
August 26, 2020 06:50 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBBarkha Dutt is one of India’s most prominent journalists. Currently, she helms her own news outlet, Mojo Story. She speaks with Abhinandan Sekhri of Newslaundry to talk about her experiences driving across India to cover the coronavirus crisis and the resultant migrant exodus. She also talks about the challenges of donning the hats of journalist and entrepreneur at the same time, her fallouts with promoters and whether small independent news operations can match the impact of the legacy me...
NL vs NL Ep 20: Is India a secular country?
August 25, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Newslaundry’s Basant Kumar and Lipi Vats debate whether India is a secular country or not. Basant thinks it is, Lipi disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree with, and why. ...
NL Interview (Teaser): Prof Apoorvanand on dissent, the Delhi carnage, and facing police inquiry
August 22, 2020 04:30 - 7 minutes - 13.3 MBProfessor Apoorvanand teaches Hindi at Delhi University, commentates on sociopolitical issues, produces literary and cultural critiques, and frequently lends his voices to progressive causes. For his activism, he has sometimes faced heat from the authorities. Early this month, his phone was seized and he was questioned by the Delhi Police about his role in the protests against the Citizenship law which they have alleged caused the communal violence in the city in February. Apoorvanand spea...
NL vs NL Ep 19: Should workplaces provide sick leave to staff for mental health issues?
August 18, 2020 13:30 - 32 minutes - 44 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Manisha Pande and Newslaundry subscriber Aishwarya Mahesh debate whether workplaces should provide sick leave to their employees who might be battling mental health issues. Manisha thinks t...
Webinar: Are Indians too easily offended?
August 14, 2020 13:20 - 46 minutes - 53.7 MBCan comedy and satire be tools of social change? How does this ecosystem interact with a large democracy like ours? When the perception of what is offensive changes from person to person, how do we define an “offence”? Are Indians too easily offended? To discuss these themes, Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, in association with Newslaundry, brought together comedians Vir Das and Aditi Mittal, and Newslaundry co-founder Abhinandan Sekhri, in the sixth and final episode of this spec...
NL vs NL Ep 18: Is safetyism a contradiction of liberal values?
August 11, 2020 14:37 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Meghnad S and Newslaundry subscriber Abhishek Bagga debate on whether safetyism contradicts liberal values. Meghnad thinks it does, Abhishek disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or...
NL Interview : N Venugopal Rao on Varavara Rao’s health and bail plea, and the conspiracy surrounding his arrest
August 07, 2020 15:39 - 33 minutes - 38.2 MBN Venugopal Rao is a writer and the nephew of Varavara Rao, the poet who has been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case. Varavara was arrested two years ago along with 12 other activists. He has been repeatedly denied bail and has been in poor health for the past month, testing positive for Covid on July 16. In this interview with Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande, Venugopal explains how the family was allowed a 20-minute long video call with Varavara by Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital, where he was shi...
NL Interview: Vivek Kaul on the NPA mess, the poor state of public sector banks, and his latest book
August 07, 2020 15:36 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBVivek Kaul is an author, columnist and commentator, known for his Easy Money trilogy on the history of money and banking and the fundamental issue behind the global financial crisis. His latest book, Bad Money: Inside the NPA Mess and How It Threatens the Indian Banking System, focuses on the layers within layers of India’s non-performing assets problem. In this interview with Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Vivek kicks off by explaining how Vijay Mallya, Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi have b...
NL Conversation: Ziya Us Salam on the vilification of the Tablighi Jamaat, its apolitical stance, and his latest book
August 05, 2020 14:14 - 53 minutes - 61.4 MBZiya Us Salam is a journalist and author. Presently the associate editor of Frontline, he has been associated with the Hindu for over two decades. His latest book, Inside the Tablighi Jamaat, delves into the religious organisation accused by the governing establishment and the mainstream media of spreading “corona jihad” in India. In this conversation with Newslaundry’s Mehraj D Lone, Ziya begins by explaining the roots of the Jamaat, which is arguably India’s largest Muslim organisation. I...
NL vs NL Ep 17: Should traditional currency be replaced by cryptocurrency?
August 04, 2020 14:00 - 24 minutes - 28.6 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Newslaundry subscribers Dhruv Thakkar and Yash debate on whether traditional currency should be replaced by cryptocurrency. Yash thinks it should be, Dhruv disagrees. Listen and tell us w...
NL Conversation: Nitin Pai on liberal nationalism and how India became a society without compassion
July 28, 2020 09:22 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBNitin Pai is the director of the Takshashila Institution, an independent centre for research and education in public policy. In the episode of NL Conversations, he speaks with Meghnad S about policy, ideology and technology. Talking about “liberal nationalism”, he believes it can only exist in India, for elsewhere people will argue that it’s not possible to be “liberal” and “nationalist” at the same time. “Indian nationalism can work on a global scale because it does not insist on a single...
NL vs NL Ep 16: Is reservation desirable?
July 21, 2020 13:39 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Chahak Gupta and Newslaundry subscriber Agastya Sreenivasan debate the uncomfortable question: is reservation desirable? Chahak says they are, Agastya disagrees. Listen and tell us who you...
NL Conversation: Gautam Mishra on creating the Spotify for news, regulating big tech, and paywalls
July 18, 2020 06:27 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBCheck out Stop Press and susbcribe at https://stoppress.substack.com/ In the latest episode of NL Conversations, Newslaundry’s Chitranshu Tewari speaks to Gautam Mishra, joining in from Melbourne. Gautam is the founder and chief executive officer of Inkl, a bundle news subscription platform that unlocks coverage from premium publishers like the New York Times and the Economist with a monthly subscription of just Rs 250. Talking about the upsurge in demand for bundle news subscriptions, Ga...
Webinar: Do digital media platforms still want viral news?
July 17, 2020 14:49 - 46 minutes - 106 MBIn this age of the internet, there’s little that doesn’t go viral. Including the news. But there’s some confusion as to what is meant by “viral news” and what constitutes “viral content”. More to the point, is there a difference between “news” and “content”? Or are they synonymous? To discuss the finer points of this question, Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, in association with Newslaundry, brought together Sattvik Mishra, CEO of ScoopWhoop; Pragya Tiwari, journalist and policy c...
Sanjay Jha on what ails the Congress and why he was sacked as party spokesman | NL Interview
July 17, 2020 13:41 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBSanjay Jha is a politician, writer, and columnist. He was sacked as a spokesman of the Congress, apparently over a pair of articles in the Times of India where he criticised the party’s “leadership vacuum”, the lack of “internal democratic process that listens to individual voices” and inability to get “up and running with any sense of urgency” in the wake of electoral defeats. Jha sits down with Abhinandan Sekhri to talk about his politics, what is ailing the Congress, and, of course, his ...
NL Interview: Swara Bhasker on nepotism in Bollywood and being an ‘armchair activist’
July 16, 2020 13:54 - 10 minutes - 12.1 MBSwara Bhasker is one of India’s most outspoken celebrities, regularly lending her voice to progressive causes and public protests. This has made the actor known for her performances in Tanu Weds Manu, Anaarkali of Aarah, and Rasbhari one of the big bugbears of Hindu nationalist TV news anchors and social media trolls. Swara speaks with Meghnad S about nepotism in Bollywood, the audience’s role in creating and sustaining the film industry’s star system, and the rise of streaming platforms. S...
NL vs NL Ep 15: Should countries be allowed to claim territory in space?
July 14, 2020 13:30 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBTired of loud frothy-mouth, potty-mouth debates on primetime TV? Tired of sad character-limited fights on Twitter where you don't really learn anything? We have something that might excite you. Newslaundry presents a new podcast: NL vs NL. Let's make debates great again! In this episode of NL vs NL, Shubh Soni and Newslaundry subscriber Dhiraj Bhandari debate whether countries should be allowed to claim territory in space. Dhiraj thinks they should, Shubh disagrees. Listen and tell us...