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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s editor-in-chief Hartosh Singh Bal and investigative journalist Aruna Chandrashekhar.

This week, we bring you TV Newsance from ground zero in Varanasi. In this special episode, we found a live debate being held by our usual suspect, News18’s Amish Devgan, on the ghats of the ancient city.   

Across Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats, turncoats dominate the candidates list of both the AAP and the BJP, with both fielding seven defectors each. The Congress has given tickets to four turncoats while the SAD has fielded two. And at least 60 percent of all these defections have taken place…

Last week’s letter:

Many say that trains are a microcosm of India, snaking their way through various regions while carrying passengers from diverse social groups. But does the idea of India change from one coach to another, from station to station? 

लोकसभा चुनावों में पांचवें चरण के 15 दलबदलू उम्मीदवारों में से आठ भाजपा की एनडीए में हैं तो 6 इंडिया गठबंधन में हैं. 

Over four months after she was “forced to leave India”, French journalist Vanessa Dougnac has written a detailed account of how she was “banned from practicing my profession as a journalist” in a cover story for French magazine La Croix L’Hebdo.

पांचवे चरण में कुल 15 दलबदलू उम्मीदवार चुनाव में खड़े हो रहे हैं. इनमें से 8 भाजपा की एनडीए में हैं तो वहीं एक तृणमूल कांग्रेस समेत छह इंडिया गठबंधन में हैं. बीजू जनता दल ने भी एक दलबदलू उम्मीदवार को उतारा है. 

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

At about 5 pm today, while the temperature in Delhi touched 37 degrees Celsius, the open space on the ground floor of Delhi’s Press Club of India thronged with people. They’d all turned up to attend “Freedom of Expression in Today’s India” in solidarity with NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha.

खडूर साहिब लोकसभा क्षेत्र में एक जून को मतदान होना है. उसके चार दिन पहले हम यहां पहुंचे तो किसी भी राजनीतिक दल का पोस्टर नजर नहीं आता है, सिवाय अमृतपाल सिंह के. असम की डिब्रूगढ़ जेल में बंद सिंह यहां से निर्दलीय चुनाव लड़ रहे हैं.