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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 51
This week on NL Hafta, Manu Joseph, former editor of Open magazine, joins us we discuss Bhupendra Chaubey’s interview of Sunny Leone. This hasn’t been a good week for journalists: former NDTV and...
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WHAT THE GOVERNMENT CLAIMS IT HAS DONE FOR KASHMIRI PANDITS
This month marked 26 years of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits from the valley after rise in militancy and amid threats & fear of persecution. While successive governments have claimed to have...
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REVATI LAUL SPEAKS ON BEING ASSAULTED BY 2002 RIOTS CONVICT AND HOW THE...
On January 21, 2016, former NDTV and Tehelka journalist Revati Laul was allegedly assaulted by Suresh Chhara, a rape convict in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Laul is currently writing a book on the...
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MUMBAI AVERAGE TEMPERATURE UP 2.4 DEGREES CELSIUS
Image: Harini Calamur/Flickr.com With 2015 now the hottest year since records started being kept 135 years ago, Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities have heated up substantially since the 19th and...
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HOW MAHARASHTRA WATER PLAN FAILS 10 MILLION FARMERS
Beed and Washim (Maharashtra): You would not think there was a worsening farm crisis in India’s second-largest agricultural economy if you met Jairam Jadhav in the central region of Marathwada, one of...
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UNDERSTANDING THE B-FORM (FOR CONTESTING ELECTIONS)
There is a host of forms one needs to fill for contesting an election in the country. One of these forms is called the Form-B or more commonly known as the B-Form. This form is proof that a particular...
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FOUR REASONS WHY EVERY JOURNALIST SHOULD ATTEND JLF WITHOUT HAVING TO REPORT...
I have attended the Jaipur Literature Festival twice before, but this was the first time I attended it without a “press pass” – that lovely little card you put around your neck that allows you to skip...
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NL INTERVIEWS: RADHIKA VAZ ON WHY WOMEN ARE HARDWIRED TO WANT MARRIAGE
References: Christopher Hitchens’ 2007 piece “Why Women Aren’t Funny” re-published on Tayiab Ramzan’s blog. Alessandra Stanley’s rebuttal to Hitchens’ piece. Hitchens’ reply to Stanley’s rebuttal....
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RADHIKA VAZ’S MEMOIR PROVES YOU CAN BE A FEMINIST AND NOT HATE ALL THINGS...
I don’t know whether Radhika Vaz will take it as a compliment or not, but I definitely mean it as one. Her memoir, Unladylike, is like reading Judy Blume, Candace Bushnell and Tina Fey all rolled into...
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70 PER CENT OF URBAN INDIA’S SEWAGE IS UNTREATED.
Image: Asian Development Bank/Flickr.com There are four years left for the government target of ensuring all Indians use toilets, but in urban India alone, no more than 30% of sewage generated by 377...
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HOW DO INDIANS DEFINE PATRIOTISM?
After 200 years of being under the yoke of Great Britain’s colonial empire, the Constitution of India took effect Jan. 26, 1950, creating what would later become the largest democracy in the world....
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HOW SHOULD GOOD SAMARITANS BE TREATED BY THE POLICE?
The Union Government released the Good Samaritan Guidelines last year. It has now released the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to be followed while dealing with the Good Samaritans. The...
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‘WE HAVE BEEN DUBBED ANTI-STATE AND ANTI-ARMY’: EDITOR OF DAWN ON JINGOISM IN...
On April 18, 2014, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir was shot six times as he emerged out of the airport to broadcast a story for Geo TV. His family squarely placed the blame on Pakistan’s Inter-Service...
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WHY BIG MEDIA’S SCANT COVERAGE OF THE MANIPUR COP’S CONFESSION IS A BLOW TO...
Quick question: Does the name Ishrat Jahan sound familiar to you? How about the name Chungkham Sanjit Meitei? Whatever be your politics or allegiance, you’re likely to have an opinion on the incident...
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GLOBAL SUMMITS: WHERE ARE WE GOING? EPISODE 11: HOW DID THE INDIAN MEDIA FARE?
Development writer and international negotiations watcher Biraj Swain discusses with Urmilesh of Media Manthan of Rajya Sabha TV, media critic Vineet Kumar of Mandi Mein Media fame, Siddharth...
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AWAY FROM THE SPOTLIGHT, NORTHEAST GROWS FASTER THAN THE REST OF INDIA
* India’s fastest-growing state is Meghalaya, with a growth rate of 9.7% in 2013-14, higher than the fastest-growing big state, Madhya Pradesh, at 9.5%. Arunachal Pradesh grew faster than Gujarat. *...
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INEQUALITY IN INDIA: RURAL VERSUS URBAN HOUSEHOLDS
The 70th round of the NSSO Survey on Household Assets & Liabilities revealed a stark picture of inequality in India. The average value of the assets per household in rural areas was found to be...
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE PADMA SHRI
In the recent times, the Padma Awards have been in the news for all the wrong reasons. It is alleged that the various governments at the center have used these awards for political reasons. Data...
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HOW IS PETROL PRICED IN INDIA?
This video has been re-published with the permission of Factly. Visit the website here Disclaimer : The information, ideas or opinions appearing in this article are those of the author and do not...
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