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Reporters Without Orders Ep 232: Shivraj Chouhan’s bulldozers, Arvind Kejriwal’s ads

Basant Kumar is joined for this episode by fellow Newslaundry reporter Prateek Goyal.

Newslaundry · Aug 13, 2022

TV Newsance 182: How to make a Deshbhaktiwalla show

Indian TV news channels perform two primary functions. They tell you how “anti-national” people they don’t like are, and they tell you how nationalist they themselves are. Entire shows are devoted to the rashtra.

Newslaundry · Aug 13, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1122: Jagdeep Dhankhar is new vice president, SC speaks on ‘freebies’

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, the Supreme Court, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Crimea.

Newslaundry · Aug 11, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1118: MPs vote for new vice president, Israel bombards Gaza

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Palestine.

Newslaundry · Aug 6, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 231: Ranveer Singh’s nude photoshoot, Subhash Chandra’s Rajya Sabha sojourn

In this episode, host Nidhi Suresh is joined by Newslaundry reporter Tanishka Sodhi and writer and journalist Aishwarya Subramanyam.

Newslaundry · Aug 6, 2022

India’s military battles to contain the damage as sexpionage ‘spreads like a pandemic’

In July 2021, as rains lashed Secunderabad, Telangana, a bored Major K opened his Facebook. The infantry officer serving his peace posting at the city’s military station was greeted by a message from Prisha Agrawal. He didn’t know her but was intrigued and promptly got chatting. Prisha said she was…

Newslaundry · Aug 6, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1117: Reserve Bank hikes interest rates, spurious liquor kills 9 in Bihar

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, the United States of America, and China.

Newslaundry · Aug 5, 2022

Bulldozer terror: Shivraj Chouhan’s war on ‘crime’ leaves ordinary lives in ruin

Addressing a public function in Hoshangabad in December 2020, Shivraj Singh Chouhan declared that he “will wipe out criminals from Madhya Pradesh and bury them 10 feet under”. It was the sort of stock speech that the chief minister would have been expected to deliver on “Good Governance Day”.

Newslaundry · Aug 5, 2022

Cartoon: Independence Day?

Cartoon is one of the oldest and boldest artistic genres for speaking truth to power. In India, however, cartoonists, in the news media and outside, are under pressure to curtail their free speech and not annoy the powerful as the finest of them are wont to do. They are being…

Newslaundry · Aug 5, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1116: Siddique Kappan denied bail, China’s military drills in Taiwan

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from New Delhi, the Supreme Court, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, the Parliament and Taiwan.

Newslaundry · Aug 4, 2022