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A REVIEW OF #NLHAFTA FROM ABHIMANYU SINGH, SUBIKSHA AND SAI KRISHNA VADLAMUDI
Hi , guys ! I really like your show and am also a subscriber ! I have seen and read almost everything you guys upload and refer. I like your show as it attempts to provide a comprehensive...
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THE BAN-BOOZLING CASE OF PROHIBITION
First, an obligatory salute to the Liquor God of India. In April 2016, Bihar imposed a total ban on drinky drinks. The reason given by CM Nitish Kumar was that alcohol consumption leads to domestic...
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NL INTERVIEW WITH YOGENDRA YADAV: ‘THE VISION OF INDIA IS UNDER CHALLENGE’
For Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, the ouster from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wasn’t a dead end – rather, it was the beginning of a new political struggle. Under their new socio-political...
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WANTED: ANGRIER INDIAN GODDESSES
The fearsome Durga has descended, decorated with a garland of her enemies’ skulls, her 10 arms frozen in the act of killing the buffalo demon Mahishasura. All through Navaratri, she will be worshipped...
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TRUMP AND CLINTON’S SECOND DEBATE: AMERICAN POLITICS IS IN THE GUTTER
The second US presidential election debate was widely billed as a heavyweight bout. In the event it was a score draw – but the clear loser was the American political process. This election continues...
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NATIONALIST ACTORS AND WAR ROOM IN INDIAN TV STUDIOS
India Today TV now has a War Room. This is the studio, complete with sandbags, a map of Jammu and Kashmir, spooky lighting with a 60-watt bulb hanging on top, guns in the background and Ram Gopal...
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ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA DIRECTS POLITICAL PARTIES NOT TO USE PUBLIC...
Following the directions of Delhi High Court, the ECI has now directed all the political parties not to use public funds or public place to carry out any activity that would amount to propagating the...
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WHO LOST THE SECOND US PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?
As drawer of the shortest straw, it falls on this lucky correspondent to watch the second American Presidential debate taking place in St. Louis, Missouri, at 6:30 am IST. After all at Newslaundry,...
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AMU: FAIZUL HASAN ELECTED AS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMUSU
Faizul Hasan Khan, a twenty-seven-year old research scholar in Sociology department, was yesterday elected as the new President of the Aligarh Muslim Students Union (AMUSU). The polling for the...
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#SURGICALSTRIKE AND WHY IT WAS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ARMY OPERATIONS
The situation after the ‘surgical strikes’ on the intervening night of September 28-29 is surreal and bizarre. India conducted deliberate trans-Line of Control (LOC) Special Forces (SF) operations,...
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PAKISTAN LOVES BOLLYWOOD AND NAWAZ SHARIF LOVES HIS CHAIR
Pakistanis are addicted to Bollywood movies. Middle-class families spend holidays and weekends to watch the latest movies coming from across the border. People either go to cinema houses to watch the...
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MODI DUMPS NEHRU’S “STRATEGIC RESTRAINT” AGAINST PAKISTAN
After decades of pusillanimity, India decides to counter Pakistani terrorism by conducting surgical strikes across the border. In 1958, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wrote to US President...
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AMU: WHY STUDENT UNIONS MUST ENGAGE WITH THE NATIONAL DISCOURSE
The last one year has been extremely eventful in terms of students’ politics. It might be argued that its after Jay Prakash Narayan’s Sampoorna Kranti Movement, there has been such a massive...
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UNIVERSAL EXCLUSIVE: IRREFUTABLE PROOF OF #SURGICALSTRIKE
On October 5, 2016, CNN-News18 aired a ‘global exclusive’ in which the channel essentially tricked Ghulam Akbar, a police officer in Mirpur, Pakistan occupied Kashmir, into stating that he knew of...
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#JUSTSPORTS 5: IS THE ISL BECOMING THE IPL’S POORER COUSIN?
Samar Khan and Rahul Puri are back with their sporty round-up. This time around they discuss the ISL and its level of sports broadcast – why it is below standard and has the risk of becoming the IPL’s...
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WHY RAPE THREATS IN THE TIME OF #SURGICALSTRIKE ARE UNSURPRISING
Ever since India retaliated to the attack on the naval base at Uri with surgical strikes, there have been a flood of jingoistic tweets by Twitter users from India and Pakistan, pouring out their...
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PAKISTANI JOURNALIST CYRIL ALMEIDA BANNED FROM TRAVELLING OUTSIDE COUNTRY
Pakistan should immediately lift the travel ban imposed on columnist Cyril Almeida of the independent daily newspaper Dawn. Almeida was notified on Monday that he’d been placed on Pakistan’s “exit...
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KASHMIR-VIRASAT AUR SIYASAT: BETWEEN THE PARADISE OF JEHANGIR AND PHIL COLLINS
Sometimes a book can remind you of a song; not a quote, a movie, or even another book, but a powerful, ever-lasting number. Though in the case of Kashmir: Virasat Aur Siyasat (published in Hindi by...
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HOW ROHTAK IS SAVING HEPATITIS C PATIENTS AT JUST RS 18,600
The state of Haryana is leading a movement in medical science that few are aware of. The state is providing treatment of Hepatitis C (Hep C) at an unprecedented low cost. The 12-week Hep C treatment...
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WHY IS OUR MEDIA MAKING A MACABRE SPECTACLE OF MONIKA GHURDE’S DEATH?
Since Monika Ghurde’s murder on October 6, every media outlet in the country has rushed to ‘cover’ the case. She was a 39-year-old woman, a former photographer who subsequently switched careers to...
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