why are we allowing haters to gradually occupy centre stage? Why are we allowing people to think that hate is beginning to define us as a nation? Unfortunately, the evidence is piling up. 11 men convicted for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano, and for killing 7 of her family members, including her 3-year-old daughter, were freed after serving 14 years o…

All of Punjab’s heavyweights lost – CM Channi, Punjab Cong Chief Navjot Sidhu, Capt Amarinder Singh, Parkash and Sukhbir Badal. Why? Voter anger snatched power from Punjab’s traditional ruling elite, and trusted a new option, AAP. Tune in to the podcast for more!द्वारा The Quint

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… here, we may no longer be able to say Happy Diwali to each other! Why? Because Tejasvi Surya says so. ‘Happy’ is an English word, meaning Christian, meaning non-Hindu, and so it can’t be used before the shudh (pure) Hindu festival of Diwali. Because if we do so, it will lead to a big, loaded, high-funda word – the ‘ABRAHAMIFICA…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na, here whoever has seen this video, has been shocked, angered and saddened. After watching this video of Afsaar Ahmed being assaulted by a mob in Kanpur even as his child pleaded for them to stop, a viewer named Aryan wrote – “Yeh kya kar rahe ho bhai?! Main bhi Hindu hoon yaar, Sri Ram Bhagwan ka naam aise lene ko mat kaho pleas…

Speaking at the 100th anniversary of the Aligarh Muslim University, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said – “Those educated at AMU represent the diverse culture of India,” that AMU is a “mini-India.” But other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders don’t think so... In 2019, BJP Lok Sabha MP from Aligarh Satish Gautam attacked AMU for having Jinnah’s por…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… yahan agar Rashid aur Pinki ne ki hai shaadi... to UP Police kyon bani hai kabab mein haddi?! Yes, the harassment has started. Rashid & Pinki got married in July, went to get their marriage registered in Moradabad last week, like lakhs of Indian couples. But instead of it being the happiest day of their lives, it ended with Ras…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… Yahan Kangana ko… Sarkar ko… Diljit Dosanjh ki baat kyon nahi samajh aa rahi hai? It's not just because he’s speaking theth, meaning shudh Punjabi. It's also because the habit of listening, of trying to understand what someone is saying, especially when they’re disagreeing with you – that simple common art of LISTENING – has be…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na... yahan par we are all talking about Arnab Goswami. But saath mein, let’s also talk about sedition and jingoism, hate speech and freedom of expression, newsroom lynchings and media freedom. Also, about how our law courts respond when confronted with some of these crucial issues. Tune in to the podcast! VO: Rohit Khanna…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… Yahan sabko Bigg Boss bahut pasand hai… We love Bigg Boss! So, why don’t we play Bigg Boss today, with the Uttar Pradesh Police! If a 19-year-old girl is brutalised in a field and brought to your police station – you should delay registering an FIR, even suggest the girl is ‘doing drama’ Even though she is found stripped of her…

The ABCD of news in India has changed. A now stands for Arrogance of certain TV news anchors, not Accountability. B is for Banana Republic, C should mean Coronavirus but is not discussed. D is for Democracy, but now stands for Drama. Rohit Khanna spells out the new A-Z of News, tune in to Yeh Jo India Hai Na! VO: Rohit Khanna Music: Big Bang Fuzz…

Like you, I’ve been watching the drama, the media circus around the death of Sushant Singh Rajput… Like you, I’ve watched the story of Supreme Court versus senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan unfold... Like you, I’ve watched India’s COVID death toll climb and climb… watched China grab Indian territory at the LAC… watched India’s economy crashing... And …

Do you know about the Navnirman Andolan? Gujarat 1973-74? Okay, you would not know... but PM Narendra Modi, he must know... because he was a part of it... A student strike against a fee hike in hostel food, became such a massive agitation against corruption across Gujarat, that in 3 months it led to the fall of Congress CM Chimanbhai Patel and his …

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… yahan perception battle ko jeetna mumkin hi nahi, aasaan bhi ho gaya hai… Even as some real battles are either being lost or just not being fought. In fact, a lot is being done to keep us looking away from some realities and to keep us glued to several carefully put together perceptions instead. Yeh Jo India Hai Na… to succeed …

Yeh Jo China Hai Na… it is saying to us – Galwan Valley clashes were India’s fault, the LAC is not where you Indians think it is, Pangong, ho ya Depsang, we believe the Chinese army is on Chinese soil, that’s not Indian soil, and so we’re not pulling back... Kar lo jo karna hai! Tune in for the full podcast! VO: Rohit Khanna…

India’s healthcare system is completely swamped by this flood of cases, which is just not slowing down. The Quint will be in almost 100% work-from-home mode for the next 1 year. Why’s that? Main reason – India has NOT yet flattened the curve. Despite one of the world’s harshest and longest full lockdowns, despite thali bajana, candle jalana, we’re …

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… It needs a COVID-19 vaccine really urgently. With over 19,000 dead, nearly 2.5 lakh active cases, adding 20,000 cases everyday. Yes, a vaccine would save a lot of lives, would get our economy back on track. But does that mean we can simply make it happen by 15 August. The answer, unfortunately, is no. Will you and I be able to …

Did you realise that Yeh Jo India Hai Na, it has become a little smaller and China just got a bit bigger? It is now clear we have lost control of the land on our side of the Line of Actual Control at Depsang, at the Galwan Valley, at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh and at least 3 areas along our border with China in Arunachal Pradesh as well. The fi…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi address to the nation on the Indo-China tensions seemed suggest that China had not intruded into Indian territory. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on 20 June tried damage control, denouncing “attempts to give mischievous interpretation” to Modi's remarks. Unfortunately, yeh jo India hai na… it has bee…

'Bigger Quake After Mini Jolts?', 'The Big One is Coming' or 'Major Earthquake May Rock Delhi-NCR Soon'... No, these are not a satirical news headlines. They are real headlines, reflecting the question looming large in the minds of people living in Delhi-NCR; a big question a lot of the media is fanning – are we about to be hit by a really big and …

The similarities between George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and Faizan's death in Delhi are striking. George Floyd, an unarmed man was pinned down on the road, by the knee by a police officer backed up by three other cops. Faizan and four others also unarmed, showing signs of injury, also lying on the road, being kept down by the lathis of 5-6 pol…

Jackie Chan wished India all the best in dealing with the Coronavirus crisis. And then there's also a video of Chinese students speaking in Hindi and telling India that they hope we are fighting Covid-19 with all our strength. There’s also a regular twitter offensive from China’s Ambassador to India Mr Sun Weidong empathising with India’s efforts a…

All of India's 1.3 Billion people are fighting the coronavirus but how have some states handled it better than the others? In Kerala, even as people got infected, the state's healthcare system did not get overwhelmed. And Kerala has seen just four coronavirus deaths! The reasons are well known — early acceptance of the pandemic, testing in large nu…

On 8 May 2020, sixteen migrant workers travelling home were asleep on a railway track when a goods train ran over them, killing them instantly. I thought, let me see how ‘Yeh Jo India Hai Na’ has reacted to the Aurangabad Train tragedy. Tune in to this podcast! VO: Rohit Khannaद्वारा The Quint

Ek baar to khud maut bhi ghabra gayi hogi… Yoon maut ko seene se lagata nahi koyi… (Even death must have been scared for once... For no soul embraces death with such ease...) Naseeruddin Shah found these words from a nazm by Kaifi Aami, to say goodbye to Irrfan Khan. And just hours later, we needed them for Rishi Kapoor as well. Yeh Jo India Hai Na…

A big crisis is always a great reality check. It show you things as they really are. It exposes your weakness, your biases, your false assumptions…your every mistake. But the question is Yeh Jo India Hai Na — will it learn anything from the coronavirus reality check? Tune in! VO: Rohit Khannaद्वारा The Quint

22 March, when all 12,500 passenger trains across India were stopped and all bus travel too, the government saw millions of migrant workers crowding train and bus stations to get home. Yet trains and buses were stopped, leaving them stranded in the cities. On 24 March a 21-days lockdown was announced within just 4 hours’ notice. Despite Modi Ji's p…

First, an important word – supression. And then, an equally important word, more important, actually – mitigation. And we must understand these words well to answer the two big questions: 1. When to unlock the lockdown? 2. And how to unlock the lockdown? So, what is suppression? Attacking coronavirus with all we have, to suppress it! Complete lockd…

Imagine a bucket. This is India, with 1.4 Billion people. And imagine a smaller container. This is our healthcare system. Our doctors, nurses, hospitals, beds, ventilators, all of that. And today, using this bucket and smaller container, let’s try to understand coronavirus in India. Where the epidemic is at, what we are doing about it, and what nex…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na, it is fighting a second big battle – and that is an economic pandemic. Visuals from Pune show the railway station packed with people, with bigger worries than social distancing. And pictures from a bus stand in Kolkata show thousands of workers desperate to get back to their villages. They are waiters at restaurants that are sh…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… is it clear about its novel coronavirus testing strategy? The Quint's Rohit Khanna asks whether India should follow South Korea’s ‘mass-testing’ model? Could ‘symptomatic testing’ for COVID-19 result in India becoming another Italy? Host: Rohit Khanna Producer: Shohini Boseद्वारा The Quint

Loading... This is the Coronavirus, it is scary with over 5,000 dead and many more expected. China, Korea, Italy, Iran and several other countries with massive outbreaks. Tom Hanks, Iranian and British ministers all testing positive! No cure available. The world in lockdown. Borders being sealed. Entire countries in quarantine! Airports, stadiums, …

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… It is a messy democracy, but it is a democracy! Some countries are still stuck with Kings & Sheikhs… some are sham democracies.. with a single leader for 25-30 years.. some are out and out military dictatorships. But India is that jeeta-jaagta democratic miracle.. that decade upon decade… has stayed faithful to its core identit…

Yeh Jo India Hai Na – Is our police really so incompetent? It is impossible to believe that Delhi Police is so bad at their job? It is impossible to believe that Delhi Police failed miserably at dealing with the violence in northeast Delhi because of sheer incompetence? Look at the long list of mistakes that the Delhi Police made in the wake of the…

Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge…Todenge Dum Magar…Tera Saath Na Chodenge! Trump and Modi sounded a lot like Jai and Veeru from Sholay. But please be warned. While Trump praised Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, praised Bollywood… and praised Modi’s personal journey from selling tea to Prime Minister. The script for Trump’s speech at the Motera stadium was …

Here is a True or False question. Nehru did not want Sardar Patel in his Cabinet! True or False? The answer is False. And here is the clearest proof of that – an excerpt of this letter written by Nehru to Sardar Patel on the 1st of August 1947. “Dear Vallabhbhai, as a formality I invite you to join the new Cabinet. Writing this is superfluous becau…

Briefly, when counting for Delhi elections started, some 'godi media' channels were saying that compared to the 2015 Assembly elections the BJP has improved. But, eight seats in an Assembly of 70 seats simply cannot be given a positive spin. It is a wipe out and this must be contrasted not with the 2015 Assembly elections, but with the 2019 Lok Sab…

Nowadays, people can not only be identified by what they wear but also by what they eat! At least that's what BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya says. Poha, a wonderful, simple dish poha which all of India loves, and perhaps Bangladesh does too, is at the centre of an unsavoury controversy. The most interesting fact is this – in Indore, where Kailash …

Yes, Arnab Goswami’s style of journalism has been described as divisive, sinister, taking jingoism to a new level of shrill. Yes, Arnab Goswami abuses people on his TV shows he heaps of insults on politicians, activists, even countries that he doesn’t agree with. Yes, I find a lot of Arnab Goswami’s brand of journalism distasteful. I believe it is …

Yeh Jo India Hai Na, yahan ke kuch log lapata hain. Some people have been reported missing. We have their names and some related details. If you have any information about them, let us know. Vishwas has been missing. His name stands for trust. Vishwas was lost when policemen beat up those they were meant to protect. Not once, but again and again. A…