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WOMEN CAN PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN COMBATING TERRORISM
Women should be encouraged to take a greater role in counterterrorism efforts as women and girls are disproportionately affected by terrorist violence. This was the message brought home in a speech by...
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UNA: THE VARIED ACCOUNTS OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DAY OF THE FLOGGING
Over the last few months, the innards of Dalit oppression in Gujarat have been spilled open all over the state and its stink has travelled far and wide. Vashram Sarvaiya and his three brothers were...
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FORMER INDIA TV JOURNALIST ACCUSES CHANNEL OF FORCING HIM TO “FABRICATE” NEWS
His open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the alleged “fabrication of news” by the Hindi language news channel India TV to favour the PM triggered the hashtag #IndiaTVExposed on social media....
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BOB DYLAN’S NOBEL: A WIN FOR THE GRANDDADDY OF HIPSTERDOM
Ask anyone who’s been keeping an eye on the Nobel prizes for literature — no one thought Bob Dylan would get the award before Haruki Murakami. Yet again, all those who have kept ready their paeans to...
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NL TIPPANI: NDTV BUCKLES. BUT WAS THIS A FIRST?
Last week, after running promos all day of an interview with Congress minister P Chidambaram by journalist Barkha Dutt, NDTV ultimately decided not to broadcast it. Instead, what we saw on the screen...
View ArticleNEWSLAUNDRY PRESENTS: THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
The Swedish Academy has decided to expand the definition of literature, and awarded the Nobel Prize to legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Not everyone’s happy, though. The most acerbic...
View ArticleA REVIEW OF #NLHAFTA FROM ADITHYA VADAPALLI, LIKHESH SHARMA AND RAHUL PANDEY
Dear NL Hafta Team, Introduction and how I got addicted to NL- My name is Adithya Vadapalli. I first came across News Laundry when I saw Karan Thapar’s interview on “Can You Take It”. However, I really...
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HAFTA 89: WHAT MAKES YOU AN ANTI-NATIONAL?
What makes you an anti-national? Eating beef? Asking the government for details on the surgical strike? Or running an interview with the opposition leader? Recently, NDTV chose to ride the...
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NO PAKISTANI PRESENCE ON THE SILVER SCREEN DUE TO SAFETY, SAYS EXHIBITORS’ BODY
“Aye Uri Uri Uri,” a song from the Bollywood film Saathiya, was sung by Adnan Sami, a Pakistani-born-Indian singer. In the wake of the Uri attacks, the song title could also refer to Karan Johar, or...
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WHY THE MESSENGER OF GOD HAS STOPPED BEING A LAUGHING MATTER
I wish I could go back to the day in 2014 when I first saw the music video “Love Charger”. It was thrilling: I saw a rotund, hairy man who looked like Gimli from the Lord of the Rings in a costume...
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WHO WILL JUDGE THE JUDGES?
The common Indian is a god-fearing and court-fearing person. Even the most powerful politicians are made to kneel before gods and the Gandhari of the Indian Justice system alike. Any criticism against...
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CHILD ‘WARRIORS’ OF KASHMIR
In all the political and security-related heat, dust and noise that has been generated over the disturbances in Kashmir, the single most sinister development – the emergence of ‘child agitators’, or...
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CPJ CALLS ON THAILAND TO NOT CENSOR NEWS DURING ROYAL TRANSITION
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Thailand’s military government to lift a blanket censorship order on television news broadcasters imposed in the wake of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s death...
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THE MARATHA PROTESTS MIGHT BE GROWING IN SIZE, BUT ARE THEY ON THE RIGHT TRACK?
Image Credit: Orbitcollection/Twitter Although the state-wide Maratha silent rallies have been large and peaceful, the absence of a clear roadmap to achieving their goals and the lack of a single...
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SURVIVING PATRIARCHY: FREEDOM WITHOUT SAFETY AND SAFETY WITHOUT FREEDOM
The murder of Monika Ghurde in Goa last week had more than one victim. As news of the gruesome act spread, peppered with many salacious details, single urban women under fire from well meaning friends...
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WHAT WERE THESE B-TOWN CELEBS DOING DANCING FOR TRUMP?
Live from New Jersey, on Saturday night, Donald Trump claimed he is “a big fan of Hindu”. For a fleeting moment, we were stumped. After all, The Hindu is often perceived as tilting towards the Left....
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NL TIPPANI: TIMES NOW MANAGES TO MAKE DONALD TRUMP GREAT (AGAIN?)
This week, Abhinandan Sekhri gives his tippani on Saurabh Shukla, the Times Now gold standard for “Manly” journalism.The first thing they teach you at journalism school is how to ask hard hitting...
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