Episodes
This week, Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Newslaundry reporter Prateek Goyal. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 11/16/24
Published 11/16/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Raman Kirpal are joined by Supreme Court advocate Shahrukh Alam and senior journalist Sreenivasan Jain.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 11/09/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Raman Kirpal are joined by Washington-based columnist Seema Sirohi. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 11/02/24
Donald Trump has threatened to scrap America’s Constitution, has denied the results of the last election, and has been charged with inciting a riot. His rival, Kamala Harris, is none of those things.  Yet, after a high-voltage entry into the US presidential race, Harris seems to be losing momentum and is deadlocked at the polls. This is despite the Harris campaign raising a staggering 1 billion dollars, more than half of what the Trump campaign has raised.  In the second episode of the...
Published 10/30/24
The US election – a high-stakes battle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – is being perceived as critical for the future of democracy in America.   The fear is that if Trump wins, he will undermine key tenets of American democracy, like using government agencies to settle scores with his rivals. Despite this, he remains a formidable contender.  In the first episode of the three-part mini-series Mandate 2024: US Edition Sreenivasan Jain reports from a Trump rally in Arizona – a crucial...
Published 10/30/24
After last year’s October 7 attack, the Israeli army has justified its brutal offensive in Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas. But the aftermath of October 7 witnessed an escalation of violence in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory not controlled by Hamas. In the final episode of our three-part mini-series Gaza: One Year Later, Sreenivasan Jain investigates fears that the West Bank is emerging as the new Gaza. Jain reports from Qusra, a village in Nablus, in the West Bank, which...
Published 10/30/24
On October 7th last year, Israel experienced a traumatic attack by Hamas: over a 1,000 killed, 250 taken hostage. The world mourned with Israel. But a year later, Israel’s devastating response has raised questions within Israeli society itself, whether the country is at risk of losing its moral compass.  In the second episode of our three-part mini-series Gaza: One Year Later, Sreenivasan Jain examines Israel’s crisis of conscience through its treatment of Palestinian prisoners after the...
Published 10/30/24
The Gaza war that erupted last year after the October 7 attack by Hamas – which left over 1,000 dead and 250 hostage – has left a trail of carnage in its wake.   Israel has killed more than 40,000 Gazans. Large swathes of Gaza have been reduced to rubble. And the shortages of food and water amid Israeli army restrictions are so severe that the UN has said that Israel may be using starvation as a weapon of war. But the Israeli government and its army have claimed that they are fighting a moral...
Published 10/30/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by The Hindu’s international affairs editor Stanly Johny and journalist and defence expert Colonel Ajai Shukla. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 10/26/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan are joined by financial crimes and corporate governance lawyer Sherbir Panag. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 10/19/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachal are joined by senior journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Lokniti-CSDS co-director Sanjay Kumar. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 10/12/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Anand Vardhan are joined by freelance journalist Hridayesh Joshi and The Hindu’s senior assistant editor Kallol Bhattacharjee. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 10/05/24
In this week’s special free episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, and Jayashree Arunachalam, are joined by The News Minute’s Pooja Prasanna and University of Michigan associate professor and author Joyojeet Pal. The conversation begins with discussions on the Tirupati laddu controversy and the Karnataka High Court setback for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in the Mysore Urban Development Authority case. Pooja delves into how life has come full circle for...
Published 09/28/24
This week, we have an in-house panel, with Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 09/21/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Shardool Katyayan, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by EastMojo executive editor Amit Kumar. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 09/14/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan discuss the controversy around Netflix’s new show IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming film Emergency, and subscriber letters.  We’re also joined by our subscriber Kanwal Narula, who presents a special gift to the team of Newslaundry.  Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Published 09/07/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and digital creator Akash Banerjee aka TheDeshbhakt. On sustainable and profitable revenue models for news, Anand says that the subscription model might be prone to the problem of becoming “a groupspeak”, where “financial influences have been insulated, but the editorial leadership has a view” that becomes the identity of the platform. Abhinandan responds...
Published 08/31/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by journalists Monideepa Banerjie and Nidhi Suresh. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 08/24/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by award-winning business journalist and author Sucheta Dalal. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 08/17/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Manisha Pande are joined by sports journalist and author Rudraneil Sengupta and senior Bangladeshi journalist, Farid Hossain. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 08/10/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by veteran journalist Neerja Chowdhury and Times of India Kerala resident editor Viju B. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 08/03/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal are joined by Mint’s consulting editor Puja Mehra. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 07/27/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Raman Kirpal were joined by Anisha Sheth, associate editor of The News Minute, and Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of Kashmir Times. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 07/20/24
This week, Newslaundry’s Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, and Shardool Katyayan were joined by The Hindu’s foreign correspondent Sriram Lakshman and its diplomatic affairs editor Suhasini Haidar. Check out the Newslaundry store and flaunt your love for independent media.  Download the Newslaundry app. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Published 07/13/24