NL Hafta 609 Snippet: ‘Is Judiciary the Greatest Threat to Indian Democracy?’
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...
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NL Hafta 608 Snippet :Ex-Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa Breaks Down the SIR Crisis
Former Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa challenges the framing of the Election Commission’s internal rift. Asked by Abhinandan Sekhri whet...
Hafta 607: Who Pays For UPI? Is The UCC Even ‘Uniform’?
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Rinchen Norbu are joined by Anupam Manur, Professor of Economics at the Takshashila...
NL Hafta 606 Snippet I Delhi’s Housing Crisis: Planning Failures and Unauthorised Construction
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by urban geographer and researcher Rashee Mehra to discuss...
Hafta 605 Snippet : GDP Ka Khel: Decoding India’s 7.8% Quarterly Growth Claim
The discussion opens with Abhinandan Sekhri talking about the flood of commentary around India's quarterly GDP figures over the past two day...
NL Hafta 604 Snippet: Student Suicides, Coaching Culture, and the Reservation Debate | Hafta Panel Discusses
This week’s Hafta panel tackled two connected threads: the anti-reservation protests and the suicide of an IIT Delhi student, Rishikesh Kuma...
NL Hafta 603 Snippet : BJP’s Gen Z ‘Outreach’ Problem | Hafta Panel Feat. Anurag Minus Verma
This week, the Hafta panel discussed the BJP’s push to expand its presence on Instagram, a shift Manisha Pande linked to the party being cau...
NL Hafta 602 Snippet : The India That Was, The India That Could’ve Been
This Independence Day, NL Hafta’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Rinchen Norbu are joined by historian and author Sam Da...
NL Hafta 601 Snippet : Why Meta took down the PM’s video | Hafta panel on Modi, Meta and censorship
On Meta, Abhinandan Sekhri asked whether the platform has the bandwidth to process takedown requests in India at that scale, or whether “it’...
Are Liberals Snowflakes? NL Hafta's Unpopular Opinions Special
For the 600th episode of NL Hafta, the panel – Abhinandan Sekhri and Anand Vardhan – are joined by Hafta alumni Jayashree Arunachalam and Me...
NL Hafta Snippet : Chetan Bhagat On Gen Z, The CJP Protest And Online Anger | NL Hafta
This Hafta episode features author Chetan Bhagat unpacking why a youth-led street protest snowballed the way it did, and what it reveals abo...
NL Hafta Snippet | Can a Protest Movement Succeed Without a Clear Ideology?
In the latest episode of Hafta, the panel discusses whether political protest movements need ideological anchoring to succeed, sparked by a...
NL Hafta Snippet : Who was Jaswant Singh Khalra? | Hafta panel discusses Satluj
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Hartosh Singh Bal, Executive Editor of The Caravan...
NL Hafta Snippet : Do Coalition Governments Make Democracies More Resilient?
This week on Hafta, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Anand Vardhan and Rinchen Norbu are joined by historian Ramachandra Guha. Check out previou...
NL Hafta Snippet : Who Stole From the Ram Mandir?
The alleged theft of donations from the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has opened a window into the opaque finances of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teert...
NL Hafta 594 Snippet
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Rinchen Norbu are joined by a very special guest – our former colle...
NL Hafta 593 Snippet
This week on Hafta, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan are joined by journalist, author and former Amnesty India executive di...
NL Hafta Snippet
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Rinchen Norbu are joined by veteran journalist Neerja Chowdhury. Che...
Hafta 590: The Norway question that shook Modi’s tour and Press Freedom
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu...
Chota Hafta 589
This week on Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Rinchen Norbu and Raman Kirpal are joined by business journalist Govindraj Ethiraj and Anushka Saxena...