NL Interview

NL Interviews

India has a parallel economy of scams and frauds that even funds elections

Author and journalist Snigdha Poonam discusses her latest book, ‘Scam Lands: Inside the Asian Empire of Fraud That Preys on the World’.

Barkha Trehan’s ‘Men Ki Baat’: From ‘easy money scheme’ for women to sex ratio ‘myth’

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

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

Bollywood after #MeToo: What changed – and what didn’t

MS Swaminathan, the Green Revolution, and ‘Atmanirbharta’ before the hype

Anand Teltumbde: Surviving prison, the ‘Urban Naxal’ oxymoron and state cruelty

‘Begin with intent, craft comes second’: Manav Kaul and Zeeshan Ayyub on propaganda cinema and football

Decoding the ‘Great Indian Brain Rot’ and India’s content Kurukshetra

‘Talks without him not acceptable to Ladakh’: Sonam Wangchuk’s wife on reality of normalcy in Ladakh

How did the idea of ‘Bharat Varsh’ emerge from the many Partitions of British India?

Mukesh Sahani on his Deputy CM bid, the Mallah voter, and breaking with Nitish

NDA’s ‘jungle raj’ candidate? Interview with Bihar strongman Anant Singh

From jobs to education: Decoding Prashant Kishor’s policy mantra

Crores of govt jobs, cash handouts: Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘unreal’ promises?

Faith vs evidence? DY Chandrachud on Ayodhya, Gyanvapi, and ‘guidance from God’

‘Vajpayee knew everything about the Gujarat riots’: Abhishek Choudhary on the former PM’s personality, contradictions

Manu Joseph on limits of activism, class mobility, and writing as ‘second shot at life’

Rajiv Pratap Rudy on PM’s claims on ‘infiltrators’, ‘vote-chori’, Nishikant Dubey’s ‘arrogance’

BJP MP Ram Chander Jangra on Bihar voter rolls, ‘anti-national journalists’, Dhankhar exit

‘Total foreign policy failure’: SP’s Chandauli MP on Op Sindoor, monsoon session

‘The word India is charged’: Aatish Taseer on exile and the search for home across the world

‘Vote chori’, Bihar SIR, demands to impeach CEC: Abhishek Singhvi defends Rahul Gandhi’s claims

‘Bihar voter roll revision unclear’: Ex-EC points at gaps in the exercise

Bihar voter list revision: RJD leader Manoj Jha asks if ECI is a ‘facilitator’ or a ‘filter’

How Faisal Malik became Panchayat’s Prahlad Cha

Tareekh Pe Justice: Inside India’s district court crisis

‘No evidence of deterrence’: Counter-terror expert on Op Sindoor, govt claims

Trump’s ‘mediation’, BJP’s politicking, media censorship: Tharoor on Op Sindoor fallout

‘Protest should not have turned communal’: Nainital girl who spoke for unity

‘Interests of non-supporters should be important too’: Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s message to PM Modi

‘EC needs to be more transparent’: Journalist Poonam Agarwal on new book, downfall of investigative journalism

‘Secular’ boards, ‘fringe’ comments: TDP MP defends Waqf Act support, ally BJP

Prophet Muhammad, Mohammed Ghori, Jinnah: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s defence of the Waqf Bill

Upamanyu Chatterjee on poking fun at bureaucracy, perpetual ‘bad moods’, and his new novellas

Chitra Subramaniam on exposing Bofors, facing backlash, and why she worked with Arnab

Aakriti Mandhwani on how Hindi ‘middlebrow’ magazines captured people’s imagination post-independence

Abhay K on who destroyed Nalanda, and what ‘no one knows in Nalanda’

Do Cholas ‘belong’ to Hindus? Anirudh Kanisetti on why there’s no point trying to claim them

Barkha Trehan’s ‘Men Ki Baat’: From ‘easy money scheme’ for women to sex ratio ‘myth’

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

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

Bollywood after #MeToo: What changed – and what didn’t

MS Swaminathan, the Green Revolution, and ‘Atmanirbharta’ before the hype

Anand Teltumbde: Surviving prison, the ‘Urban Naxal’ oxymoron and state cruelty

‘Begin with intent, craft comes second’: Manav Kaul and Zeeshan Ayyub on propaganda cinema and football

Decoding the ‘Great Indian Brain Rot’ and India’s content Kurukshetra

‘Talks without him not acceptable to Ladakh’: Sonam Wangchuk’s wife on reality of normalcy in Ladakh

How did the idea of ‘Bharat Varsh’ emerge from the many Partitions of British India?

Mukesh Sahani on his Deputy CM bid, the Mallah voter, and breaking with Nitish

NDA’s ‘jungle raj’ candidate? Interview with Bihar strongman Anant Singh

From jobs to education: Decoding Prashant Kishor’s policy mantra

Crores of govt jobs, cash handouts: Tejashwi Yadav’s ‘unreal’ promises?

Faith vs evidence? DY Chandrachud on Ayodhya, Gyanvapi, and ‘guidance from God’

‘Vajpayee knew everything about the Gujarat riots’: Abhishek Choudhary on the former PM’s personality, contradictions

Manu Joseph on limits of activism, class mobility, and writing as ‘second shot at life’

Rajiv Pratap Rudy on PM’s claims on ‘infiltrators’, ‘vote-chori’, Nishikant Dubey’s ‘arrogance’

BJP MP Ram Chander Jangra on Bihar voter rolls, ‘anti-national journalists’, Dhankhar exit

‘Total foreign policy failure’: SP’s Chandauli MP on Op Sindoor, monsoon session

‘The word India is charged’: Aatish Taseer on exile and the search for home across the world

‘Vote chori’, Bihar SIR, demands to impeach CEC: Abhishek Singhvi defends Rahul Gandhi’s claims

‘Bihar voter roll revision unclear’: Ex-EC points at gaps in the exercise

Bihar voter list revision: RJD leader Manoj Jha asks if ECI is a ‘facilitator’ or a ‘filter’

How Faisal Malik became Panchayat’s Prahlad Cha

Tareekh Pe Justice: Inside India’s district court crisis

‘No evidence of deterrence’: Counter-terror expert on Op Sindoor, govt claims

Trump’s ‘mediation’, BJP’s politicking, media censorship: Tharoor on Op Sindoor fallout

‘Protest should not have turned communal’: Nainital girl who spoke for unity

‘Interests of non-supporters should be important too’: Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s message to PM Modi

‘EC needs to be more transparent’: Journalist Poonam Agarwal on new book, downfall of investigative journalism

‘Secular’ boards, ‘fringe’ comments: TDP MP defends Waqf Act support, ally BJP

Prophet Muhammad, Mohammed Ghori, Jinnah: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s defence of the Waqf Bill

Upamanyu Chatterjee on poking fun at bureaucracy, perpetual ‘bad moods’, and his new novellas

Chitra Subramaniam on exposing Bofors, facing backlash, and why she worked with Arnab

Aakriti Mandhwani on how Hindi ‘middlebrow’ magazines captured people’s imagination post-independence

Abhay K on who destroyed Nalanda, and what ‘no one knows in Nalanda’

Do Cholas ‘belong’ to Hindus? Anirudh Kanisetti on why there’s no point trying to claim them