Oct 31, 202612 min
The discussion turns to Arunachal Pradesh, where Tongam Rina, a senior editor at the Arunachal Times , describes the recent armed deployment against Siang dam protesters. “Why do you arm and come against people who are...
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NL Hafta
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Who hosts NL Hafta?
NL Hafta is hosted by Newslaundry.com. The show has published more than 1,000 episodes to date.
What has NL Hafta covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Tear Gas in Arunachal, Backtracking on Ladakh: How India Treats Its Borderlands" (31 October 2026, 12 minutes), "NL Hafta 612 Snippet: France vs CJP protests: Why the Comparison ‘Makes Absolutely No Sense’" (24 October 2026, 13 minutes), and "NL Hafta 611 Snippet: ‘A Cop Deciding Who’s a Journalist’: Reporting on the Delhi Police Crackdown" (17 October 2026, 18 minutes).
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NL Hafta publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across more than 1,000 episodes.
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NL Hafta 612 Snippet : France vs CJP protests: Why the Comparison ‘Makes Absolutely No Sense’
Oct 24, 202613 minManisha Pande asks Rohan Venkat, non-resident managing editor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study of India, about the far left’s role in the recent violence in France. She also asks him to...
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NL Hafta 611 Snippet : ‘A Cop Deciding Who’s a Journalist’: Reporting on the Delhi Police Crackdown
Oct 17, 202618 minNewslaundry reporters Khushi Mehrotra, Samarth Grover and Astha Savyasachi recount what it was like to report from the ground during the October 10 protests in Delhi. Abhinandan Sekhri begins by asking how live...
Oct 10, 202616 minThis week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by political cartoonist Manjul, Rachita Taneja of Sanitary Panels fame, and comedian Sanjay Rajoura to ask whether Indian politics has...
- Oct 3, 202614 min
The Chief Justice of India’s remark that the polls in question were “only by-elections” in West Bengal is where this Hafta discussion begins. Abhinandan Sekhri calls it “a bit alarming”, and says similar casual comments...
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Sep 26, 202614 minFormer Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa challenges the framing of the Election Commission’s internal rift. Asked by Abhinandan Sekhri whether the “dissenting notes” amount to genuine dissent, Lavasa flips the premise...
Sep 19, 20261h 54mThis week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Rinchen Norbu are joined by Anupam Manur, Professor of Economics at the Takshashila Institution, and Mihira Sood, Supreme Court lawyer specialising in women’s...
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NL Hafta 606 Snippet I Delhi’s Housing Crisis: Planning Failures and Unauthorised Construction
Sep 12, 202615 minThis week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by urban geographer and researcher Rashee Mehra to discuss Delhi's continuing housing crisis. Rashee traces the problem to a structural...
Sep 5, 20269 minThe discussion opens with Abhinandan Sekhri talking about the flood of commentary around India's quarterly GDP figures over the past two days. Much of it, he says, is “just completely wrong” – although still a...
- Aug 29, 202614 min
This week’s Hafta panel tackled two connected threads: the anti-reservation protests and the suicide of an IIT Delhi student, Rishikesh Kumar. Joining the Hafta panel this week were Dr Aqsa Shaikh, one of India’s...
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NL Hafta 603 Snippet : BJP’s Gen Z ‘Outreach’ Problem | Hafta Panel Feat. Anurag Minus Verma
Aug 22, 202612 minThis week, the Hafta panel discussed the BJP’s push to expand its presence on Instagram, a shift Manisha Pande linked to the party being caught off guard by the memes and reels that emerged from the CJP protests. Anurag...
Aug 15, 20269 minThis Independence Day, NL Hafta’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Rinchen Norbu are joined by historian and author Sam Dalrymple. The discussion began with the question: Was the India we...
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NL Hafta 601 Snippet : Why Meta took down the PM’s video | Hafta panel on Modi, Meta and censorship
Aug 8, 202614 minOn Meta, Abhinandan Sekhri asked whether the platform has the bandwidth to process takedown requests in India at that scale, or whether “it’s actually a phase where it’s the Wild West”. Independent tech journalist...
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NL Hafta -600 Snippet
Aug 1, 20269 minCelebrating 600 uninterrupted episodes of NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri and Anand Vardhan are joined by former Hafta panelists Jayashree Arunachalam and Mehraj Lone for a special episode built around one simple idea: our...
Jul 25, 20268 minThis Hafta episode features author Chetan Bhagat unpacking why a youth-led street protest snowballed the way it did, and what it reveals about how anger travels online. Abhinandan Sekhri opens with a mea culpa on having...
Jul 18, 20269 minIn the latest episode of Hafta, the panel discusses whether political protest movements need ideological anchoring to succeed, sparked by a debate over the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) lack of clear ideological...
- Jul 11, 202613 min
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, Executive Editor of The Caravan , and sports broadcaster Arjun Pandit. The discussion begins with Hartosh’s...
Jul 4, 202614 minThis week on Hafta, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Anand Vardhan and Rinchen Norbu are joined by historian Ramachandra Guha. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit...
Jun 27, 202614 minThe alleged theft of donations from the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has opened a window into the opaque finances of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust. Our Hafta panel discusses the SIT investigation into...
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NL Hafta 594 Snippet
Jun 20, 202612 minThis week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Rinchen Norbu are joined by a very special guest – our former colleague Jayashree Arunachalam. Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance...
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