Personal experiences, work, and reflections

This week, host Basant Kumar is joined by Ayush Tiwari from Scroll and independent journalist Srishti Jaswal.

Ayush reported on shady land deals in Ayodhya, where a firm linked to the BJP sold ecologically sensitive land to the Adani group. He explains how there have been other “crazy” land deals over the past years.

Srishti talks about her report on the BJP’s data collection app, Saral, and what the party hopes to achieve from it. She says data manipulation in India is “too easy”.

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Timecodes

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:01:20 - Land deals in Ayodhya

00:20:41 - Data collection in India

00:44:55 - Recommendations

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Produced and edited by Saif Ali Ekram, and recorded by Anil Kumar.

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