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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 172: Covid's impact in rural Maharashtra and Rajasthan
Description: In this episode, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Diksha Munjal, Tanishka Sodhi and Shivangi Saxena of Newslaundry.Diksha and Tanishka talk about their report on sugarcane workers in Beed district of Maharashtra and how the pandemic has affected them. They talk about a woman who had to resume work just a day after her husbandâs death to repay their debt, a rise in hysterectomies and the local governmentâs help through âguidance or margdarshanâ. Akanksha and Shivangi talk about their ground reports from Dausa and Alwar in Rajasthan about vaccine hesitancy, lack of he...