Chhota Hafta 273: Kashmiri journalists, Arnab Goswami on Palghar, Ramachandra Guha, and more

A snippet of NL Hafta for non-subscribers.

ByNL Team25 Apr, 2020

Chhota Hafta 273: Kashmiri journalists, Arnab Goswami on Palghar, Ramachandra Guha, and more

In this week’s episode of NL Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kripal, Manisha Pande, Mehraj D Lone, and Anand Vardhan are joined by Anuradha Bhasin, executive editor of Kashmir Times.

Discussing the few journalists bringing out stories in Kashmir, Anuradha says, “The pandemic is being used as a cover to target them and harass them.” Mehraj agrees, saying: “Journalism has been declared a crime in Kashmir.” He adds that this has been the case for a while, and legal coercion is used to ensure that “self-censorship becomes pervasive”.

Manisha talks about Arnab Goswami’s TV show on the Palghar lynchings. She says his introduction of a communal angle into the lynching, when rumours are actually to blame, is “criminally irresponsible, it’s not journalistic, it makes no sense.”

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