In this week’s #NLHafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Manisha Pande are joined by Sushanta Talukdar, editor of NEZINE, an online magazine focusing on India’s Northeast region.

The discussion starts off with the #Assamfloods, which has affected over 28 lakh people so far. Floods are a recurring issue during the monsoons in Assam, but the government has still not found a way to contain the toll it takes. “The problem is, people forget about the Assam floods after the last day of the floods,” Sushanta says.

The conversation shifts to a National Centre for Disease Control survey that said nearly 23 percent of people surveyed in Delhi had developed antibodies for the Covid infection. Manisha calls the survey heartening, since it “shows that the pandemic is not that terrible, because a lot of people survived”, though Mehraj disagrees. India’s increasing cases and low death rate has also been controversial, and Raman says he’d like to “investigate” the Covid death toll, since it’s not very clear.

The panel also discusses the Supreme Court issuing suo motu contempt proceedings against lawyer Prashant Bhushan, the #RajasthanPoliticalCrisis, and more.

Content:

00:00 : Introduction and headlines

04:59 : Assam floods

33:07 : Uttar Pradesh journalist's murder

35:35 : How subscriptions fund independent journalism at Newslaundry

41:54 : Subscriber letters

52:33 : Delhi's serology survey and questions over community transmission, deaths and vaccines

01:03:22 : Rajasthan political crisis

01:11:32 : Subscriber letters

01:20:35 : Supreme Court’s contempt of court proceedings against Prashant Bhushan

01:29:46 : Subscriber letters

01:32:48 : Recommendations

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