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It was the first day of Diwali, and Rupali Hukire (name changed), a 42-year-old beautician, hurriedly cleaned big buckets and steel pots. She draws water from her neighbour's borewell at a cost of Rs 100 for 30 minutes of pumping. Though her home, in Khandavi village in the Barshi tehsil…

दिल्ली में चुनाव आते ही ऑटो चालकों के प्रति तमाम राजनीतिक दलों का प्रेम उमड़ने लगता है. इसका अंदाजा आप इसी से लगा सकते हैं कि 7 जनवरी को आरएसएस से जुड़े ऑटो रिक्शा संघ ने रेलवे मंत्री अश्विनी वैष्णव को एक पत्र लिखा. पत्र में मांग की गई थी…

Be it 2013, 2015 or 2020. Autorickshaw drivers in Delhi have openly thrown their weight behind the Aam Aadmi Party in three consecutive elections, and the Arvind Kejriwal government has also been seen taking decisions favouring the group.

In episode 10 of South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna and Leena Reghunath are joined by public policy professionals Tara Krishnaswamy and Tushar Chakrabarthy, and lawyer Sandhya Raju, who practises in the Kerala High Court.

जब अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी की सत्ता से विदाई हो रही थी तो इसी बीच उनके ऑफिस के एक कर्मचारी अटलजी के पास आते हैं और कहते हैं कि वो कांग्रेसी प्रधानमंत्री के अधीन काम नहीं करना चाहते. इसके बाद ये शख्स साल 2006 तक वाजपेयी के निजी सचिव के रूप…

दिल्ली की हवा इतनी प्रदूषित हो चुकी है कि यहां कि हवा में सांस लेना अब करीब 40 सिगरेट पीने के बराबर है. धूम्रपान से दूर रहने वाले लोग भी इस हवा में सांस लेने से बच नहीं पा रहे हैं.

If you saw someone smoking 50 cigarettes a day, you’d be concerned. But even if you’re not a smoker, a really bad day of air pollution is the equivalent of smoking that much. Fifty cigarettes, 24 hours, killing your body in ways you don’t want to imagine.

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Ranchi-based independent journalist Anand Dutta and Newslaundry’s Drishti Choudhary.

Former parliamentarian and leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Prof Rakesh Sinha recently said that an anchor of a prominent news channel had once asked him to use derogatory language against a Muslim man during a televised debate following which he stopped making appearances at the channel in question. 

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam and Shardool Katyayan are joined by journalist Nidhi Razdan and economist and writer Vivek Kaul.

In India, we hold traditions dear. Politicians know that well. That’s why, perhaps, ahead of the assembly polls in Delhi, some of them have kept up with the time-honoured custom of jumping ship, pouring scorn on their old allies and singing praises for their new hosts.