Barkha Dutt speaks to Veteran Journalist & co-founder of Newslaundary Madhu Trehan in the 26th episode of our podcast 'Inside Out'.

Madhu talks about taking the only interview of the 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon while he was in custody. She also speaks on the Babri demolition, Advani era BJP, media in today's landscape, challenges for women journalists, the MeToo movement, her journey from launching Newstrack to India Today Magazine to founding Newslaundry, and later quitting it.

Madhu also recalls the time when one of the interviews that she did, led to Farooq Abdullah- whom she calls a friend- asking Rajiv Gandhi to send her behind bars.

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Chapters-

00:00 Promo
2:23 When Madhu took the only interview of Yakub Memon
6:15 UPA people were not angels, they were hounding journalists
7:20 The Lutyens accusation is true
8:27 Journalists weren't aligned so publicly as they are today
11:48 Learn to write between the lines
16:56 How Madhu started Newstrack
19:35 Inside The Babri Masjid Demolition in Ayodhya
25:13 Has anyone been held to account? For 1984, for 2002?
25:55 When Madhu interviewed terrorists in Kashmir
27:05 Farooq Abdullah told Rajiv Gandhi that I should be arrested
29:51 Under Manmohan Singh's watch, journalists were jailed, harassed
30:22 There are positive changes in Kashmir today
31:37 Modi is the first PM ever to talk about Toilets
33:00 Modi Govt doesn't know how to treat media, journalists
33:53 Media, accessibility, bias and govt ads
36:14 Why Madhu started Newslaundry?
38:44 Why Madhu left Newslaundry
40:41 When a journalist who was a BJP Bhakt reported the Babri demolition without bias
42:44 Are journalists a dying breed?
44:01 One assignment which Madhu could have done differently
46:09 Madhu on the MeToo movement
55:19 Being a woman in journalism
59:12 "My mom told me Arun to padh ke kuch banega tum kyu itna padh rahi ho"
1:01:41 "I don't feel bad, I am just angry at times"
1:06:35 Credits

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