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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 238: Jharkhand’s loan sharks, Bihar’s RTI activists
Description: Host Basant Kumar is joined by freelance journalists Anand Dutta and Umesh K Ray. They talk about Anand’s report for BBC on loan sharks in Jharkhand, including how one pregnant woman was run over by a cartel of debt collectors. Anand explains how poverty is rising in the state and how people who took out loans before the pandemic are now trapped in huge debts. Umesh talks about his story about the persecution, even murder, of RTI activists in Bihar. “Bihar was the model state in the days soon after the Right to Inf...