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Hafta letters: Being optimistic, questions on funding, Delhi results

Harnek Kang

Newslaundry · Feb 23, 2025

South Central Ep 15: Centre vs TN over language policy, media censorship

In this episode of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s executive editor Sudipto Mondal and senior journalist K Venkataramanan to discuss the union government withholding education funds from Tamil Nadu over the three-language policy and what it signals about its control over…

Newslaundry · Feb 23, 2025

Is cow smuggling as rampant in Uttara Kannada district as Hindutva activists claim?

The mutilation and killing of a pregnant cow in a village in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka has given fresh blood to the narrative voiced by Hindutva groups that cow smuggling and illegal cattle transport are rampant in the region – loaded with insinuation that Muslims are behind these incidents.

Newslaundry · Feb 13, 2025

Women filmmakers were funded, then ‘harassed’ and ‘insulted’: Kerala film corporation controversy

Long before the release of the Hema Committee report in August 2024, which exposed the deep fractures beneath Malayalam cinema’s progressive façade, filmmakers Indu Lakshmi and Mini IG had sought to expose the particularly hypocritical brand of inclusivity that shaped Kerala’s film industry. Both of them were grantees of the…

Newslaundry · Jan 24, 2025

Malayalam cinema’s reckoning: The Hema report and its aftermath, five months later

2024 was an eventful year for Malayalam cinema, during which its best and worst facets became the centre of a nationwide discussion. All the talk in the first half of the year was about the brilliance of movies like Aavesham, Manjummel Boys, Premalu, and Bramayugam.

Newslaundry · Jan 22, 2025

South Central Ep 9: Communal violence in Karnataka, Revanth Reddy vs KTR

In episode nine, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s senior journalist Anisha Sheth and journalist Yunus Lasania.

Newslaundry · Jan 12, 2025

Hafta letters: Right-wing scholarship, length of subscriber emails, panel pessimism

Simar Kaur

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2025

‘Struggling to cope’: Survivors of Wayanad landslide protest exclusion from draft list for rehab

Nearly five months after devastating landslides ravaged Kerala’s Wayanad, survivors are yet to receive the assurance of rehabilitation. The only hope for the over 500 families who lost their homes lies in a rehabilitation project designed to resettle them in a new township. However, according to the Meppadi panchayat representatives,…

Newslaundry · Dec 23, 2024

Hafta letters: First family of Bollywood, LTA Punjab, populist schemes

AnonymousIn last week’s Hafta, Chetan Bhagat was spot on when he described how minuscule the demands of a typical Indian are and how not only have they adopted a practice of just being submissive to what's happening in terms of poor services, but religion has been at the core of…

Newslaundry · Dec 21, 2024

Biomedical waste from Kerala dumped in Tamil Nadu, officials dodge accountability

Hours after it came to light that bio-medical waste from Kerala was illegally dumped in multiple locations in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district, government authorities in both states continue to dodge accountability. Medical documents bearing the name of Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), a state-owned cancer care hospital and research centre in…

Newslaundry · Dec 18, 2024