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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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Session with Sena: Reporting on the Central Vista project during a pandemic
July 08, 2020 06:30 - 36 minutes - 41.5 MBIn May, we released an NL Sena, “The New New Delhi”, a deep dive into the Narendra Modi government’s much-touted project to redesign Central Vista, the heart of the national capital. Reporter Hameeda Syed also analysed just why the government was pushing forward with the project even as the Covid-19 pandemic was ravaging the poor. In this edition of Session with Sena, Hameeda, along with Newslaundry’s Chitranshu Tewari, talks about the story with the subscribers who made it possible with th...
NL vs NL Ep 14: Should public health be prioritised over personal privacy?
July 07, 2020 13:31 - 30 minutes - 34.9 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 Aditya Relangi and Aishwarya Mahesh debate whether public health should be prioritised over personal privacy. Aditya thinks it should be, Aishwarya disagrees. Liste...
NL Conversation: Kritika Pandey on inspiration and winning the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
July 06, 2020 11:33 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBKritika Pandey is a writer and poet. Her short story The Great Indian Tee and Snakes recently won the 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She has also won the 2020 James W Foley Memorial Award and the 2018 Harvey Swados Fiction Prize. Pandey sat down with Abhinandan Sekhri to talk about her life, work and literary journey. “I was responding to the contemporary sociopolitical upheavals in India,” Kritika says when asked about the inspiration for The Great Indian Tee and Snakes, while poin...
Podcast: Is the press free in India?
July 03, 2020 12:16 - 45 minutes - 51.9 MBOn the Global Press Freedom Index, India ranks 142 out of 180 countries. To make sense of why a country that prides itself on being the world’s largest democracy fares so abysmally on press freedom, it’s imperative to locate and speak about the different pressures that journalists are under. To this end, Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, in association with Newslaundry, organised a webinar with Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of the Wire; Naresh Fernandes, editor of Scroll; Dhanya Ra...
NL vs NL Ep 13: Should marijuana be legalised in India?
June 30, 2020 13:30 - 27 minutes - 31.2 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, Shardool Katyayan and Parikshit Sanyal of Newslaundry battle it out over the highly contentious question of whether marijuana should be legalised in India? Shardool thinks it should be, Par...
NL Conversation: Lakshmi Chaudhry on news fatigue, newsletters, and news as an experience
June 27, 2020 08:22 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBThe news media, like most spaces, has a big blindspot when it comes to the representation of women, even as they bear the brunt of the negative impact of the information explosion. How and why is it so? What can be done to rectify the situation. To discuss these questions, Chitranshu Tewari spoke with Lakshmi Chaudhry, the founder of Splainer Media and the co-founder of Firstpost. She talks about her journey launching Splainer, how news is an exclusionary space for women on both the p...
What will it take for news media to survive the coronavirus crisis? | NL Webinar
June 25, 2020 06:30 - 1 hour - 102 MBThe news media is in a crisis. Already struggling with falling revenues and eroding credibility, the media has been left to battle for survival by the Covid pandemic and its economic fallout. Is there a way of this crisis? If there’s, where does it lead? To discuss the challenges facing the news media and how they can be dealt with, Newslaundry organised a webinar in partnership with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Abhinandan Sekhri of Newslaundry is joined by Rasmus Klei...
NL Interview: Hasina Kharbhih on combating human trafficking in Northeast India
June 23, 2020 18:05 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBHasina Kharbhih is the founder of the Impulse NGO Network, a civil society organisation based in Shillong, Meghalaya, which works to combat human trafficking in Northeast India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. INGON, as it’s popularly known, has helped rescue and rehabilitate thousands of trafficked women and children over the past two decades. In this interview with Snigdha Sharma, Hasina explains the origin of the “impulse model” that uses a multidisciplinary approach to combat human traf...
Podcast: Is TV news dead?
June 23, 2020 14:43 - 49 minutes - 56.6 MBIndian television news has acquired an unsavoury reputation over the past few years owing to the bombastic anchors and their primetime rants peddling bigotry. Now, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, as advertising revenues, the chief source of income for mainstream media, dwindle, can TV news survive in its current form? To discuss this and much more, Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, organised a webinar with three of India’s most prominent news professionals – Barkha Dutt, F...
Podcast: Is TV news relevant in India today?
June 23, 2020 14:42 - 51 minutes - 59.1 MBFollowing up on their last webinar, “Is TV news dead”, Roli Books brought together another panel to debate the other aspect of the topic, “Television News: Relevance and Credibility in Today’s India”. Abhinandan Sekhri, co-founder of Newslaundry, was joined by Nidhi Razdan, executive editor of NDTV, and Saahil Menghani, news reporter and anchor. Razdan argued that the continued popularity of television news showed that it was still popular. “It is not dead, simply because viewership has gon...
NL Conversation: Happymon Jacob on India-China conflict, and why Kashmir is certain to erupt again
June 23, 2020 14:40 - 59 minutes - 82 MBFor over a month, India and China have been locked in a tense border conflict in eastern Ladakh. The standoff turned violent early this week, leading to the killing of 20 Indian soldiers. Grim as the situation is, it is not quite clear what exactly is happening on the ground, and what it means for relations between the two countries. To demystify the conflict and explain its strategic and political implications, Mehraj D Lone spoke with Happymon Jacob, one of India’s foremost strategic aff...
Podcast: Is India’s print media ready for the web?
June 23, 2020 14:38 - 45 minutes - 52.6 MBTo sink or to float is the question. In India, as elsewhere, the internet revolution has compelled newspapers and magazines to transition to digital. The transition has been slow, however, and most newspapers and magazines are still primarily in the print space. Will the pandemic hasten it? To discuss this, Roli Pulse, the digital arm of Roli Books, in association with Newslaundry, organised a webinar with Anant Goenka, executive director of the daily Indian Express, Anant Nath, editor of t...
NL vs NL Ep 12: Capitalism, socialism, communism, or libertarianism. Which system works best?
June 23, 2020 13:30 - 47 minutes - 54 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 special episode of NL vs NL, Newslaundry subscribers Jefferson Simon, Dhruv Pandey, Saloni Dangwal, and Umesh Getta debate which ideological system works the best – capitalism, socialism, communism, or libertari...
NL Interview: Digvijaya Singh on Jyotiraditya Scindia joining the BJP, and toeing the ‘soft Hindutva’ line
June 18, 2020 07:11 - 15 minutes - 18.3 MBTHIS IS JUST A TEASER. WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW: https://bit.ly/NLInterviewDigvijayaSingh Digvijaya Singh is a senior Congress leader, Rajya Sabha MP, and the former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. In this interview, he sits down with Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri to discuss Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit from the Congress, recent defections in Madhya Pradesh, his political ambitions, and when he thinks Rahul Gandhi will return as president of the party. On Scindia’s defection to the BJP...
NL vs NL Ep 11: Does religion have a positive impact on society?
June 16, 2020 13:30 - 25 minutes - 29.8 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, Meghnad S and Newslaundry subscriber Vaibhav Agarwal debate whether religion is beneficial to society or not. Meghnad thinks it has, Vaibhav disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree wit...
NL Interview: Hardik Mehta on making Kaamyaab, co-writing Paatal Lok, chasing the dream in Mumbai
June 14, 2020 14:30 - 9 minutes - 11.4 MBHardik Mehta is a filmmaker. He’s known for the documentary Amdavad Ma Famous, which won him the National Award, and the recently released Kaamyaab, a cinematic homage to the Hindi film industry’s “side actors”. He also co-wrote the web series Paatal Lok, which is currently playing and earning rave reviews. Hardik sat down with Abhinandan Sekhri to talk about how he came upon the idea of making a film on the supporting actors who had iconic presence in the 1980s and 1990s but then slipped i...
NL Interview: Bharatbala on documenting India under lockdown, patriotism, and Maa Tujhe Salaam
June 14, 2020 11:38 - 5 minutes - 6.73 MBFilmmaker Bharatbala, who produced the iconic video for AR Rahman’s 'Maa Tujhe Salaam', is known for the beauty of his visual frames. His Virtual Bharat initiative aims to document stories from across India through 1,000 films. His most recent initiative was a short film, titled 'Uthenge Hum', capturing visuals of India during the lockdown. In this edition of NL Interviews, Bharatbala joins Abhinandan Sekhri to talk about what motivated him to document India during the nation-wide lockdown ...
NL vs NL Ep 10: Are we living in a simulation?
June 09, 2020 13:30 - 30 minutes - 41.7 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, Newslaundry subscribers Sahej Rahal and Parminder Kaur fight it out over that very existential question: are we all living in a simulation? Parminder thinks we are, Sahej disagrees. Listen and tell us...
NL Conversation: Anand Patwardhan on the Centre’s apathy towards the poor, and the Ayodhya verdict
June 06, 2020 07:30 - 48 minutes - 55.3 MBIn the latest episode of NL Conversations, Newslaundry’s Mehraj D Lone speaks to Anand Patwardhan, one of India’s most prominent filmmakers and the director of documentaries like Ram Ke Naam, War and Peace, and Reason. Discussing the migrant worker crisis following the lockdown, Anand argues that the government is “incapable of feeling anything for the poor, anything for minorities, anything for people other than their own crony capitalist class.” He adds,“This has been their policy from da...
NL vs NL Ep 9: Is Twitter good for journalism?
June 02, 2020 14:02 - 22 minutes - 41.7 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, Newslaundry subscribers Mayukh Roy and Khushee Chauhan debate whether Twitter is good for journalism or not. Mayukh thinks it is, Khushee disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree with,...
NL Conversation: Tongam Rina on racism and Big Media’s ignorance about the Northeast
May 30, 2020 12:25 - 47 minutes - 53.8 MBTongam Rina, an award-winning journalist, is an editor at the Arunachal Times. A credible and critical voice from India’s Northeast, she has had to deal with state hostility, online outrage, and a near-fatal attack. In this interview with Snigdha Sharma, she discusses how the very landscape of the Northeast has shaped her journey as an environmental journalist, how journalists in the region struggle to obtain information, the environment, and the coronavirus pandemic. “I have seen enough h...
NL Interview: Sanjaya Baru on Modi’s excessive self-confidence, and why India’s coronavirus response is faltering
May 29, 2020 14:30 - 8 minutes - 10.3 MBAs a veteran journalist, editor, author, former secretary general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and media advisor to former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Sanjaya Baru has closely followed, and been involved in, India’s economic policymaking for many decades. As India grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and its socioeconomic fallout, Baru sits down with Mehraj D Lone to discuss the crisis and how the country can pull out of it. In a wide-ranging conversa...
NL vs NL Ep 8: Which is truly cosmopolitan, Mumbai or Delhi?
May 26, 2020 13:31 - 29 minutes - 54 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, Abhinandan Sekhri and Newslaundry subscriber Shivangi Chaturvedi fight it out over that unanswerable question: which city is truly cosmopolitan, Mumbai or Delhi? While Shivangi bats for Mumbai, Abhinan...
NL Interview: Sudhir Krishnaswamy on joining Facebook’s oversight board, and the ‘cultural difficulties’ of moderation
May 26, 2020 06:30 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MBOver the past few years, Facebook has been embroiled in a number of controversies, especially those pertaining to the tech giant’s moderation policy. To address the latter issue, the company recently appointed a 20-member oversight board which will have the final say over content moderation issues. In this episode of NL Interviews, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri talks to Dr Sudhir Krishnaswamy, the only Indian member of the oversight board. Sudhir is the vice-chancellor of the National La...
NL vs NL Ep 7: Tea or coffee?
May 20, 2020 07:50 - 28 minutes - 53.1 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, Newslaundry subscribers Goonj Mohan and Aishwarya Mahesh battle it out over the age-old question: which is better, tea or coffee? Goonj bats for tea, Aishwarya is all for coffee. Listen and tell us who ...
NL Conversation: Are public-private partnerships the solution to India’s healthcare woes?
May 13, 2020 10:28 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBThe coronavirus pandemic has revealed in tragic detail the inadequacies of India’s healthcare system. While public healthcare, especially outside of major cities, is at best rudimentary, the private health sector, which accounts for the bulk of the nation’s healthcare facilities, has come up short in this time of crisis.Why is it so? What are the deficiencies in the health sector the pandemic has revealed? How have they affected the country’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak? What needs t...
NL vs NL Ep 6: Should governments spend on welfare?
May 12, 2020 13:31 - 28 minutes - 52.5 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, Shardool Katyatan and Newslaundry subscriber Dhiraj Bhandary debate whether governments should spend on welfare. Shardool thinks they should, Dhiraj disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree with...
Webinar: Is India equipped to deal with the economic fallout of Covid-19?
May 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBIn the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the World Bank says, there is a real risk of a global recession. In India, the economic fallout of the pandemic is compounding the problems – rising unemployment, manufacturing slowdown, and consumption stagnation – brought about by falling growth in the last few years.But how exactly will this crisis impact India’s economic fortunes in the short run and in the long term? Is the country, particularly its government, even equipped to deal with what lies...
NL vs NL Ep 5: Is veganism a better choice?
May 05, 2020 13:30 - 23 minutes - 43.5 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, Snigdha Sharma and Aditya Varier debate whether veganism is a better choice. Aditya thinks it is, Snigdha disagrees. Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree with, and why. Write to us at contact@newslaund...
NL vs NL Ep 4: Should soldiers be allowed to express dissent publicly?
April 28, 2020 14:32 - 23 minutes - 32.8 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, Abhinandan Sekhri and Mehraj D Lone debate whether soldiers should be allowed to express dissent publicly. While Mehraj thinks they should be, Abhinandan doesn’t.Listen and tell us who you agree or disagree wit...
NL vs NL Ep 3: Should India's sedition law be scrapped?
April 21, 2020 13:59 - 18 minutes - 33.8 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, Prateek Goyal and Meghnad S debate whether the sedition law in India should be repealed. Meghnad says it should be scrapped, but Prateek says it's still applicable in certain situations. Listen and tell us who ...
NL Interviews: Stranded Indian students on expiring visas and an uncertain future
April 16, 2020 03:30 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBIn this episode of NL conversations, part of Newslaundry’s ongoing series on Covid-19,Varun Thomas and James Asirvadam, discuss what it's like being stuck in Europe as a result of the pandemic. They are both Newslaundry subscribers.Varun Thomas has recently completed a dual degree masters in MSC Management in Germany, from the EBS University for Economics and Law. He has a Bachelor’s degree in IT engineering, and an MBA from OP Jindal Global University.James Asirvadam is currently pursuing a ...
NL vs NL Ep 2: Is the Aam Aadmi Party dabbling in soft Hindutva?
April 14, 2020 13:30 - 21 minutes - 19.8 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, Manisha Pande and Ayush Tiwari debate whether the Aam Aadmi Party dabbles in “soft Hindutva”. Ayush thinks it does, but Manisha doesn’t. Listen and tell us who you agree with or disagree with, and why. Write t...
NL Interview With Rohit Chakravarty: Don’t blame bats for the pandemic
April 11, 2020 08:33 - 31 minutes - 35.8 MBThe world’s gotten a little more interested in bats over the past one month or so, since the novel coronavirus hit global headlines. In this podcast, Manisha Pande brings on board Rohit Chakravarty to discuss this much-maligned mammal. Rohit is a PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, Germany. He studies bats in the Himalayas of Uttarakhand, investigating how their diversity changes across elevations, what they eat and generally, how they get by in their...
NL vs NL Ep 1: What’s better, Big Government or Small Government?
April 07, 2020 13:30 - 19 minutes - 27.2 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 first episode, Abhinadan Sekhri and Meghnad S battle it out over the age-old question, "What is better, Big Government or Small Government?" Meghnad bats in favour of Big and Abhinandan votes for Small. Listen and tell...
NL Interview: Harvard researchers on myths and realities of the coronavirus pandemic
April 01, 2020 15:30 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBBhargav Krishna is a doctoral student at Harvard University’s TH Chan School of Public Health in the United States, and serves as adjunct faculty at the Public Health Foundation of India. Atif Adam holds joint faculty positions in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Joslin Diabetes Center of Harvard Medical School. They are both Newslaundry subscribers. In this conversation with Abhinandan Sekhri, Bhargav and Atif discuss the coronav...
Mitigation vs suppression: Tomas Pueyo on fighting coronavirus
April 01, 2020 08:17 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBIn this podcast, we explore various strategies for combating Covid-19.In this interview with Manisha Pande, Tomas Pueyo talks about India’s battle with the novel coronavirus, the fallout of the lockdown, and how the pandemic is reshaping the world.Pueyo is an author and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who shot to fame after writing a viral Medium post containing the gravest warnings about Covid-19.Commenting on the spread of Covid-19 in India, he asks, “Are you testing?” He hypothesizes that the ...
कोविड-19 से निपटने के लिए सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक वाली रणनीति कारगर होगी
March 30, 2020 17:21 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBकोविड-19 पॉडकास्ट. इस सिरीज के तहत हम देश और दुनिया के अलहदा मीडिया संस्थानों द्वारा प्रकाशित होने वाली कोरोना से संबंधित लेख और रिपोर्ट्स को हिंदी पॉडकास्ट की शक्ल में आपके सामने रखेंगे. यह मूल लेख का अविकल अनुवाद नहीं बल्कि भावार्थ है.पहले पॉडकास्ट में हम न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स में छपे डेविड काट्ज़ के लेख को प्रस्तुत कर रहे हैं. इसका हिंदी में अनुवाद बीबीसी डिजिटल के संपादक राजेश प्रियदर्शी ने किया है. इस लेख में येल-ग्रिफिन प्रिवेंशन रीसर्च सेंटर के संस्थापक अध्यक्ष डेविड काट्ज़ कोरोना के संकट स...
NL Interview: Journalist Govindraj Ethiraj on busting fake news and data literacy
March 17, 2020 12:41 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBA journalist for over 25 years, Govindraj Ethiraj is the founder of Boomlive, a fake news busting website, Indiaspend, which specialises in data-driven public interest journalism, and Factchecker, which keeps a record of public figures who spread misinformation. Most recently, Ethiraj helmed India Fact Quiz, an initiative supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that focuses on breaking down myths and biases around healthcare, education, gender. He speaks with Snigdha Sharma about r...