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Did Delhi do as told on Modi’s birthday? | Vibe Check with Abhinandan Sekhri

The day after Narendra Modi’s 76th birthday, which the BJP marked as “Sewa Diwas” with the month-long Seva Sankalp Abhiyan outreach campaign and an “Ashirwad Ka Diya” at more than 500 prominent locations, Abhinandan Sekhri went out for his second “vibe check” (the first was at the CJP protest) to…

Newslaundry · Sep 20

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 Institution, and Mihira Sood, Supreme Court lawyer specialising in women’s rights.

Newslaundry · Sep 19

From India Against Corruption to CJP: Abhinandan returns to Jantar Mantar

This Gen Xer is late to the party! But what a party it was. A BJP minister has resigned, Gen Z has tasted victory, and an OG andolanjeevi has returned to his old adda.

Newslaundry · Jul 26

Hafta 573: Funding the ‘circus’ in Davos as the net tightens on press freedom in Kashmir

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by journalist and entrepreneur Govindraj Ethiraj. 

Newslaundry · Jan 24

An insider’s account of how Apollo Tyres went global and the ‘graveyards’ of Indian manufacturing

From the Licence Raj to liberalisation, labour unrest to global expansion – how did an Indian tyre company rise, fall, and rise again?

Newslaundry · Jan 8

Hafta x South Central: Highs & lows of media in 2025, influencers in news, Arnab’s ‘turnaround’

For this special year-ender episode, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri and Manisha Pande and The News Minute’s Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna are joined by columnist and media critic Santosh Desai.  

Newslaundry · Dec 27, 2025

Inside Mamdani’s campaign: The story of 2025’s defining election

Few political contests in 2025 drew as much global attention as New York City’s mayoral race. The winner in the heart of global finance was a brown, immigrant Muslim politician – unafraid to claim his identity and running on an eye-catching redistributionist platform. Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular win in this contest…

Newslaundry · Dec 22, 2025

Awful and Awesome Ep 398: Frankenstein, Dhurandhar trailer, All Her Fault

While discussing the movie Frankenstein:

Newslaundry · Nov 21, 2025

Awful and Awesome Ep 396: Search, Wayward, the good old days of MTV

While starting the discussion:

Newslaundry · Oct 24, 2025

Hafta 559: Taliban’s visit to India, Gaza peace plan agreement

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by Suhasini Haidar, Diplomatic Affairs Editor at The Hindu, and Dr Khinvraj Jangid, director and professor at the Centre for Israel Studies at OP Jindal Global University. 

Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2025