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Podcast: Reporters Without Orders
Episode: Reporters Without Orders Ep 185: BJP bets on Taliban, Covid harms rural children’s learning
Description: This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Kashif Kakvi of NewsClick and Ashwine Singh of Newslaundry.The conversation begins with Kashif's story about how the BJP is using the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan as a tool to counter the anti-incumbency against its government in Madhya Pradesh. To this end, Kashif notes, the Hindu supremacist party organised a seminar for their IT Cell workers in Bhopal on September 9 titled, “The political rise of radical Islam and challenges to India’s security”. Ashwine talks about his report on how the pandemic has affected the learn...