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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by independent journalist Rahul Singh.
Rahul talks about his report on the shortcomings of the public distribution system in Jharkhand. He says despite the online mechanism, food security is poor in rural areas, and instead of helping, the system “is emerging as a hurdle” for the Adivasis.
Basant reported on people falsely named as beneficiaries of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra in a report by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, which also claimed their farm incomes doubled in 2022. He shares how he found out the factual errors in the government body’s book.
   
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:14 - Lok Sabha Election
00:07:57 - Issues in getting Ration in Jharkhand
00:25:21 - Farmers’ income
00:36:45 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Rahul
Jawan
Basant
Scoop
Media Ka Loktantra

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and The Quint’s Himanshi Dahiya.
Shivnarayan talks about his profile of ANI and how it became the Modi government’s favourite media outlet. But the story isn’t that simple, he explains, because beyond ANI’s dismal coverage of the opposition are a number of contracts that the agency has signed with state governments. 
Himanshi reported on a Gujarat Dalit family that was “cheated” into giving a whopping Rs 11 crore in electoral bonds, of which Rs 10 crore was encashed by the BJP. She explains how the alleged scam took place and just how a company linked to the Adani group was involved. 
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:05 - ANI’s journalism
00:25:25 - Gujarat family’s electoral bonds 
00:49:07 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Himanshi
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
2024 Pro-Hindutva Films Were Funded By BJP-Linked People, Promoted by BJP Netas
Shivnarayan
Aamis
Tanishka
How National Creators Award Winners Amplified BJP’s Message
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This week, host Sumedha Mittal is joined by Newslaundry’s Anmol Pritam and The News Minute’s Jahnavi.
Jahnavi talks about her report on businessman P Sarath Chandra Reddy, accused-turned-approver in the Delhi liquor policy case. She says his firms bought electoral bonds worth Rs 55 crore, later encashed by the BJP, and also explains the ‘South Group’ connection to the case.
Anmol was on the ground during the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. He talks about the mood among the people, based on his interviews with locals, whether the Delhi police is being ‘biased’, and how the AAP believes their right to protest is being suppressed.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:31 - Kejriwal’s arrest
00:20:39 - P Sarath Chandra Reddy
00:29:06 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Jahnavi
Anatomy of a Fall
Anmol
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Sumedha
Aamis
The arrest of Mr Kejriwal: A PMLA case
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, and recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Pooja Prasanna is joined by the Ramnath Goenka awardees from Newslaundry and The News Minute, to talk about the four awards they won this year.
While Ayush Tiwari and Basant Kumar won in the environment, science and technology category for the plunder of the Aravalli series, Hridayesh Joshi’s video report on arsenic in water triggering diseases in several villages, supported by the Thakur Foundation, was honoured in the Hindi broadcast category.
The News Minute also won two awards. While Azeefa Fathima, Balakrishnan Ganesan, and Prajwal Bhat won in the civic journalism category for their five-part series on exposing manual scavenging, Prajwal’s reports on the 2022 hijab protests in Karnataka were awarded in the political reporting category.
They look back at their work to discuss its importance and impact on society.
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Ayush
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Basant
21वीं सदी : पहला दशक
Hridayesh
बड़े शहरों में जंगल? बिल्कुल, खुद देखिए [Forest restoration in Delhi and NCR]
The Cooking of Books : A Literary Memoir
Azeefa
ACCESS DENIED
These Precious Days
Balakrishna
3 Body Problem
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Pooja
Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
The Gentlemen
The costs of Reliance’s wildlife ambitions
Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram; recorded by Anil Kumar.

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This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Prateek Goyal and Basant Kumar.
Both Prateek and Basant share their experience of investigating the patterns in political funding in India, and decoding the State Bank of India’s data dump on electoral bonds. 
They discuss how they found out about “a very strange pattern” of donation to political parties, with some companies donating or lapping up their donations after raids by central agencies. In some cases, the companies’ donations even surpassed their profit growth and revenue.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:21 - Donations to parties
00:05:18 - Electoral bonds
00:25:22 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Basant
Project Electoral Bond (Report)
Prateek
Maamla Legal Hai
Tanishka
Plunder of the Aravallis

Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, and recorded by Anil Kumar.


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This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Newslaundry’s Pratyush Deep.
Pratyush reported on the Assam police increasing security and barricading in anticipation of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which the government this week said it would soon implement. He says there’s a huge difference in intensity of protests between 2019 and 2024. But Basant points out the government laid the groundwork to make sure no protest could take place.
Basant talks about his report on Uttar Pradesh appointing a chief information commissioner and 10 information commissioners last week. At least four have links to the BJP or are favourable to Chief Minister Adityanath, he says. He also explains his interview with Indrajeet Ghorpade, a 32-year-old techie and activist from Pune who has filed over 50 complaints against hate speech on news channels. 
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:53 - Cops try to quell Assam’s CAA disquiet 
00:24:10 - Appointments of information commissioners in UP 
00:33:42 - Interview with Indrajeet Ghorpade 
00:34:48 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Pratyush
In 15 more donors of BJP, 4 shell firms, 11 companies that faced central action by Prateek Goyal
Basant
Poacher on Amazon Prime

Produced by Prashant Kumar, edited by Parikshit Sanyal, and recorded by Anil Kumar.


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