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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 154: Tracking the farmer protests in UP, Haryana and Punjab
Description: In this episode, Nidhi Suresh takes over as host and she’s joined by Newslaundry’s Ayush Tiwari.Nidhi asks Ayush about his coverage of the farmer protests at Ghazipur and Singhu. Ayush notes that in Ghazipur, the resentment of sugarcane farmers is “driving them” to protest sites. “The andolan, the movement, has very successfully sucked up all the resentment and turned it into energy to run these protests,” he says.Ayush also talks about his reports from western Uttar Pradesh, the role of the Tikait brothers, and the mahapanchayats organised to discuss the farm law...