I love listening to Hafta, एनएल चर्चा and Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap. Hafta and चर्चा provide a place to listen to banter from different perspectives. Being away from the country and alone, I wait for the weekends to listen to your chit-chat. 

1. Being a media watchdog, shouldn’t you add a section in the website for fake and/or wrong news.
2. I came across a news website, here in Sweden, called NewsVoice. It provides news articles with many RIGHT/CENTRE/LEFT tagged links. What do you think of such a service?
3. @Manisha, being from Uttarakhand, can you correct the pronunciation of the panelists. It is डोभाल (Dobhal) which they always call डोवल (Doval).
4. Can you also invite young right- or centre-leaning individuals, as most of the times the team tends to lean towards the left? Anand Vardhan does a great job, it would be great if there are some other perspectives too from the centre/right.
5. Newslaundry Android app doesn’t work at all. It’s better on the mobile browser. For some weeks, the mobile website hasn’t been showing चर्चा on the podcast list. I have to dig in to find the link. Please do something about it, otherwise, your data scientists would report that चर्चा isn’t loved by people.

Waiting for the next week. By the way, I have been a Newslaundry subscriber for more than two years now.

Regards,
Gaurav

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Hi NL team,
Been a subscriber for 3+ years, love your work.

In Hafta 204, I was quite taken aback by Saikat Datta saying that surveillance doesn’t work. Maybe in India, it does need tweaking, and lack of trust in institutions like NIA doesn’t help either. But worldwide, this is not the case. Here is a link which lists 105 planned attacks (including failed) since 9/11: Link

And FBI/CIA did not catch those guys without surveillance.

I liked the discussion on what age people became aware of certain things. And my experience regarding patriarchy was same as Abhinandan. In 1st standard, my teacher in a Tamil school (DTEA, Pusa road) asked ‘kudumbattin talaivar yaar?’ meaning ‘who is the head of the family’ and I answered: mother. The whole classroom laughed. In my family, mom was the doer and punisher, my sister was popular. I was beaten by girls before I hit puberty (a couple of times after too, embarrassing). So it took a long time for me to realise how deeply entrenched patriarchy is in our society, but I do agree with Anand, it depends on which section.

Thanks.
Prakash Iyer