CLOTHESLINE – EPISODE 47
A weekly wrap of the good, the bad and the funny from the world of news where we take NDTV’s Kashmir flood coverage to the cleaners, Arnab slips up and Pakistani monkey business. Support Newslaundry....
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THE LESS-TRENDY DIPIKA
This is a story about a girl. Her name is Dipika. She plays a sport for a living. It’s called squash. It’s a racquet game – like badminton and tennis. She is pretty good you know – she recently won a...
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ON AIR: THE THIRD SEX
Padmini Prakash didn’t know she was about to make history when she read out the 7 pm news bulletin for the first time for Coimbatore-based news channel, Lotus News. “I was nervous and my palms were...
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NIGHTMARE ON IIT-JEE STREET
With the IITs lowering the admission criterion to 75 per cent in the school-leaving exam, a long chapter in the ping-pong game between the IIT admission council and aspirants has hopefully come to an...
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#GETWELLSOONTOI? OH, THEY WILL
Not another word about this whole The Times of India (TOI) versus Deepika Padukone thing. Certainly, not another point of view. Frankly, I have not followed the fiasco closely enough to have an...
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ACCHE DIN FOR NEWSPAPER ADS
May 16, 2014: Watershed moment in the history of our nation. A new dawn, end of an era, epoch-making mandate – just pick the phrase that catches your fancy. We shall go with the in-house favourite:...
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THE SECRET DIARY OF MANMOHAN SINGH, AGED 81¾: THE FINAL PART
Sunday, September 14. Why is Vinod Rai after me? What did I ever do to him? At Daman’s book launch, he was the only subject of discussion. At least Montek and Shashi had come. So nice of them. Many...
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I LOVED MODI’S SPEECH
At Madison Square Garden. Just like him, I know my audience. If I don’t say that, you won’t read any further. But it’s also true. As speeches go, there was nothing more impassioned, nothing more...
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NOMO: THE ANTI-MODI PROTESTS YOU DIDN’T SEE
Photo credit: Smriti Sinha Journalists almost always manage to get the story they want to get. Before they set out of their TV studios and offices to report, they usually have a brief prepared that...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #4
Fill in the blanks and be part of a Clothesline gag. Enter our photo dialogue contest and you (and your winning dialogue) could be featured in next week’s Clothesline. You wring ‘em clean, and we’ll...
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THE DISMAL STATE OF WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT IN INDIA
In 1886, when Anandi Joshee was 20, she graduated as a medical doctor from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. The first Indian female with that distinction. She was routinely pursued,...
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MILLIONS OF “MILLION MARCHES” LATER, J&K WILL STILL BE PART OF INDIA
“Million March” is to be held on October 26 in London: calling for the independence of the State of Jammu and Kashmir from the Union of India. October 26 is the day when the princely state of Jammu...
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MAHARASHTRA CM ASPIRANT FACES 22 RIOT CASES, CRIME ACCUSED PACK ASSEMBLY
(Maharashtra BJP president and Chief Minister aspirant Devendra Fadnavis with other party leaders) *Devendra Fadnavis, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief ministerial aspirant, has 22 charges of...
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WHAT THEY’RE PROTESTING AGAINST AT JANTAR MANTAR
It’s perhaps almost unfair that one of India’s greatest modern civil uprisings – the India Against Corruption movement – culminated at the Ramlila Maidan and not Jantar Mantar. For dharnas, or any...
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WHEN PUBLIC VOICES DENOUNCE ENVIRONMENTALLY-CONSCIOUS DIWALI MESSAGES, WE’RE...
In India, political party spokespersons are expected to defend the party line no matter what, because that’s their job. If you sign up to be part of a team you have to back them. That’s the primary...
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ZEE DROPS KASHMIRI PANDIT PART FROM ANUPAM KHER’S INTERVIEW AND TOI PULLS OFF...
Any Newslaundry reader knows that we spend a lot of time telling you about articles that have been taken down or never put up. Well, it happened again. Twice. A “certain” channel has edited out part...
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WHY 150 MILLION RURAL INDIANS COULD LOSE THEIR JOBS
India’s new government has apparently decided to restructure the United Progressive Alliance’s flagship anti-poverty programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). The...
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