This week on TV Newsance, we take you to the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, where anchors went skiing and paragliding, and Indian politicians arrived armed with MoUs and photo ops. 

As leaders from Europe and America were signalling their intent on major global issues like Greenland, globalisation and the ‘rules-based international order’ in Davos, our chief ministers went to sign MoUs with – well, Indian companies. Because nothing quite validates domestic ‘investments’ like an Alpine backdrop.

While anchors paraglided and analysed “global uncertainty” mid-air, Navika Kumar battled Davos FOMO with a fake Donald Trump back home. 

But as TV news chases optics abroad, tragedy unfolds at home. In Noida, a young software engineer, Yuvraj Mehta, drowned in an unfenced, waterlogged construction site. This was not just civic negligence or institutional apathy but a systemic killing.  

For once, even prime-time anchors were shaken, though some still found ways to criticise without questioning power. 

In this episode:

➜ Why Davos is more optics than investment

➜ What MoUs really mean 

➜ How the Noida tragedy was entirely preventable

➜ What eyewitness accounts reveal about systemic failure

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