Newslaundry Interviews

Nov 02 2024 149 ep. 33 mins 1.4k
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A 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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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on US polls, ‘dictator in the making’ and Harris’s ‘huge blindspots’

Nov 02 2024 12 mins  
“It is not only democracy that is on the ballot... but the realisation that we have a dictator in the making if we were to give Trump a second presidency,” says Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar in an exclusive conversation with Sreenivasan Jain. On the high stakes in the elections, the prominent Muslim politician says that rights and liberties, “bodily autonomy,” po

Jobs, Article 370, or reservation: What does Jammu’s youth want?

Sep 27 2024 60 mins  
In this episode of Another Election Show, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia reached Jammu to understand the issues of the locals, particularly the youth, ahead of the third phase of polling in Jammu and Kashmir. Following the recent delimitation process, the region has a total of 90 electoral seats – 43 in Jammu and 47 in Kashmir. the voting in three phases, with the final ph

What’s the electoral mood in Jammu? Journalists on revival of ‘nationalism’ in politics

Sep 27 2024 50 mins  
The politics of Jammu have been distinct from that of Kashmir. To grasp the nuances of this difference and the issues in Jammu, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia spoke to the region’s senior journalists – Mohit Kandhari of The Pioneer and Nishikant Khajuria of Daily Excelsio.    In this episode of Another Election Show, the conversations shed light on the influenc

जमात-ए-इस्लामी: हथियार और आजादी से जम्हूरियत और संविधान का सफर?

Sep 14 2024 36 mins  
जम्मू कश्मीर में करीब 10 साल बाद चुनाव होने जा रहे हैं. यहां मुख्यधारा की लगभग सारी पार्टियां जैसे-नेशनल कॉन्फ्रेन्स, पीडीपी, कांग्रेस और बीजेपी चुन

‘War-like situation’: Meet the journalist who was shot at in the Bangladesh job quota protests

Jul 29 2024 44 mins  
What started as a mass student protest against job quotas escalated into a deadly uprising in Bangladesh, with over 150 people killed so far.Muktadir Rashid, a journalist in Bangladesh who has been reporting on the clashes from the ground, speaks to Newslaundry about the challenges to reporting in such circumstances, the incident in which he was shot at, how two journalis

‘Don’t blame quota’: Disability activist on Puja Khedkar case, inclusivity

Jul 26 2024 34 mins  
After the spate of allegations against IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, last week the UPSC said she had misused the disability quota and filed a case against her. But this changed the course of the conversation, with several bureaucrats raising questions on the need for the quota. Arman Ali, executive director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People

‘I am with RSS, BJP, VHP’: Nuh riots key accused Bittu Bajrangi to ‘lead’ July 22 yatra

Jul 20 2024 33 mins  
Nearly a year after violence broke out during the Brij Mandal religious yatra in Haryana’s Nuh, killing at least six people, preparations are underway for another yatra on July 22. And Bittu Bajrangi, cow vigilante and key accused of last year’s violence, has claimed to lead the procession this year.     Bajrangi, who was arrested by the Haryana police

In a first, 3 transgender persons join Bihar police. Meet their mentor

Jul 19 2024 20 mins  
Bihar is now the first state in India to simultaneously recruit three transgender persons as sub-inspectors in the state police. Among the 1,275 candidates who cracked the sub-inspector recruitment examination held by the Bihar Police Subordinate Services Commission, three of them broke several stereotypes – Manvi Madhu Kashyap, who identifies as a transwoman, and two transmen, R

‘Weaponising FCRA’: Centre for Financial Accountability’s Joe Athialy on licence withdrawal, govt

Jul 17 2024 33 mins  
The cancellation of the FCRA licence “has nothing to do with technicalities. It [the government] is weaponising FCRA and using it as a political tool against organisations that are critical of the government,” said Joe Athialy, executive director of the Centre for Financial Accountability. Last week, the FCRA licence of the CFA’s parent entity, India Institute for Critical Ac

‘Not allowed to speak in parliament’: Manickam Tagore on Modi govt, INDIA bloc, media access

Jul 06 2024 46 mins  
Manickam Tagore, a three-time Congress MP from Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar, is one of the fierce opposition voices in the Parliament. In the 18th session of the Lok Sabha, Tagore raised the issue of the restricted media access to the parliament.  In a conversation with Newslaundry, the Congress leader spoke about the changes in parliamentary proceedings, INDIA bloc�