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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 106: Captain Marvel, Leaving Neverland and more

In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, hosts Rajyasree Sen and Abhinandan Sekhri discuss Captain Marvel, Surf Excel’s advertisement #RangLaayeSang, Leaving Neverland, Made in Heaven, After Life and more. The podcast kicks off with Abhinandan who, though a Marvel Universe enthusiast, wasn’t convinced by their latest offering Captain Marvel. Rajyasree…

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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 104: Gully Boy, Period, the Oscars and more

In this episode of The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap, Abhinandan Sekhri is joined by Ankur Pathak, entertainment editor at Huffington Post. They discuss Gully Boy, Period. End of Sentence., the Oscar awards and more. They start off with Gully Boy, with Abhinandan asking Ankur what worked for him in the movie.…

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The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap Ep 100: Thackeray, JLF and more

In the 100th episode of Awful and Awesome, our hosts Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen go live to talk about the best and worst of pop-culture. They discussed Thackeray, the new Firstpost advertisement, Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, Jaipur Literature Festival and a lot more.The conversation begins…

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Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan wants to take the fight to Delhi

The celebration in Saharanpur’s Chhutmalpur has just begun. The man of the moment is Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who is out on bail.

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How the AAP-LG tussle is uniting the Opposition against the BJP

The tremors of a political earthquake in the national capital are spreading fast across the country. The support to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s dharna at the Lieutenant Governor’s house from the Opposition parties or the anti-Bharatiya Janata Party front is swelling with every passing day.

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Dystopian Times: Doing It Right

Newslaundry brings you an all-new comic column, Dystopian Times, by Appupen that reports on Rashtria, a great country that darkly mirrors our own. Check out Dystopian Times’ latest edition. Watch out for new artwork every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!Newslaundry is a reader-supported, ad-free, independent news outlet based out of New Delhi. Support…

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Why granting statehood to Delhi is the right thing to do

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How AAP used a special session on Delhi’s statehood to attack IAS officers

On Monday, first the Chief Minister’s residence, then the Delhi Assembly, and eventually the Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s office stood witness to return of “activist” Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi chief minister first tore apart the LG in the morning presser and in his speech in the Delhi Assembly, before going…

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Dystopian Times: The New Constitution

Newslaundry brings you an all-new comic column, Dystopian Times, by Appupen that reports on Rashtria, a great country that darkly mirrors our own. Check out Dystopian Times‘ latest edition. Watch out for new artwork every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!Newslaundry is a reader-supported, ad-free, independent news outlet based out of New Delhi. Support…

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The racism chronicle

The film that took Akshun Abhi, all of 24 years, and the team of 7 Rounds to Cannes is based on last year’s Kansas racial killing in which a 51-year-old Navy veteran shot an Indian techie who was enjoying a drink with a friend in a pub.“Suddenly, this man walked…

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The truth behind Delhi’s school results

Delhi government schools have outperformed the private schools in the Class 12 examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Year after year, since the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took charge of the city governance, the students of government schools have outshined the private school students. Due credit…

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Serving creativity: The Chaiwala who has written over twenty five books

In front of Hindi Bhawan at ITO, one of the busiest localities of Delhi, you will always find a crowd of people gathered around a small shack on the footpath to have a cup of the famous tea made by Laxman Rao, the most popular tea seller of the area.But…

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Setting the record straight on Delhi schools

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Monster city

“There once was a fair city, among cities of the world, the first in fame, it hath been ruined and laid desolate, to that city I belong, Delhi is its name.” So, said the renowned poet Mir Taqi Mir, over 200 years ago. If Mir were alive today, he would…

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: DK Shivkumar, the man behind the manoeuvres

Within hours after BS Yeddyurappa resigned, a beaming Rahul Gandhi emerged in what was his first press conference since the party’s embarrassing performance in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The optics of the press conference is not lost on anyone — the Congress president had practically gone underground since the day…

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: What led to Yeddyurappa’s knockout

Two hours before the floor test was to happen, the narrative on TV stations started changing. That was the first indication that the BJP had thrown in the towel. Anchors started pushing the line that the BJP high command was not too pleased with BS Yeddyurappa’s efforts to get a…

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‘Hatred is a disease. It has to be treated’

Tucked in Delhi’s south-east, Jamia Nagar is a sprawling locality home to the Jamia Millia Islamia university as also numerous residential areas around it. It is a curiously mixed place, with small industries, cramped workshops and famous eateries jostling for space with congested housing and visibly unplanned areas. Yet, it…

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Silent burial for Sher Shah Suri, Mughal empire in DU

When the Delhi University’s history syllabus was changed mid-semester in 2016, students were assured that changes were minor. It was felt that the changes were restricted to the BA Programme and that honours students would remain unaffected. It’s been more than a year and while education boards and universities have…

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How LG is short-circuiting CCTV cover for Delhi

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Revealed: How the Congress-JDS deal was cracked

It was sometime late on Sunday that contact was first established between New Delhi and Malleswaram. This neighbourhood in the north-western part of Bengaluru is where the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, lives. The Congress had reached out to him because by then, a day after voting on…

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A rare story of a Nigerian’s struggle and triumph in Delhi

Ola Jason looks dapper in a blue cotton suit; an impressive printed shirt defines his muscular torso. He hangs his coat meticulously on the back of his chair and settles down to talk. He’s a Nigerian who has been living in Delhi for more than eight years after coming here…

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Delhi’s Yamuna: A huge septic tank

Delhi has found new ways of contaminating the Yamuna river: electronic waste. As also the subsoil and ground water: A United Nations-backed study pointed out that India generated nearly 5 per cent of electronic waste produced globally in 2016.

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Sentenced to life

July 21, a warm summer day in 2007, Yamuna gave birth to Vijay. Yamuna is from Delhi — her union arranged like many others — and the father, Laxman, from Bhubaneswar.

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TV Newsance Episode 17: Aaj Tak Ka Supreme Leader

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Why Delhi’s ‘rape capital’ tag is problematic

In Delhi, from 2017 to March 31, 2018, approximately 3.75 per cent rapes were committed by strangers while almost 96.5 per cent were by persons known to the victim. Which is perhaps why Delhi Police’s Deependra Pathak believes most of the rape cases could not have been prevented by the…

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