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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 262: Caste bias in Delhi, communal prejudice in Haryana
Description: This week, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel as Basant Kumar is joined by Avdhesh Kumar and Anmol Pritam. The discussion begins with Avdhesh’s report on a cobbler from Delhi’s Mayur Vihar who has been allegedly pressured by a lawyer to change his surname to a word decreed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Avdhesh points to caste discrimination and how the “emotional as well as financial trauma faced by this person is huge”. The conversation moves to Anmol’s report about two residents of Mewat allegedly set afire by cow vigilantes. He talks about how...