This week, host Tanishka Sodhi is joined by Newslaundry’s Shivnarayan Rajpurohit and Freelance award-winning journalist Srishti Jaswal.
The discussion begins with Shiv’s report on the surveys at the BBC offices. They talk about the reasons behind the survey and what could possibly come out of it. Shiv also talks about the experience on ground and the media coverage on the subject.
The discussion then moves on to Srishti's story which is the first part of a large investigation done by an International organisation ‘Forbidden Stories’, on Bangalore based journalist Gauri Lankesh’s murder.
They talk about the idea behind doing such an investigation and then goes on telling about the instances in the report that revolves around the murder of Gauri, including her 2012 video which has been linked to her case directly. Srishti explains that the video is a perfect example of how ‘Hindu Far-Right’ functions in India, where Gauri Lankesh gave a speech on ‘Ethos of Hinduism’ and a part of the speech was taken and uploaded on YouTube, with the title ‘Why I hate Secularism’. This portrayed her in a false manner and was shown to her assassins.
The panel ends the discussion with the harassment faced by female journalists online. Even after Gauri’s assassination, people don’t talk about online and offline persecution seriously and how it’s a threat to other journalists as well.
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Timecodes
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:01:11 - Forbidden Stories
00:08:42 - BBC surveys
00:38:00 - Recommendations
Recommendations
Srishti
Shivnarayan
Tanishka
Produced by Tehreem Roshan, recorded by Anil Kumar, and edited by Satish Kumar.