| NewsClick

Founder Editor of Newsclick which covers and analyses key issues in today's world from points of view virtually missing from the coverage of the dominant corporate media.

Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick Production
Christopher Lydon on the Role of Alternative Media
13 Aug 2018
Prabir Purkayastha
Podcast During Iraq War as an Alternative to Mainstream Media
11 Aug 2018
Lydon talks about how the mainstream media became pro war and alternative voices needed to be heard & thus came the idea of the first podcast.
Prabir Purkayastha
Government Can Try Very Hard but it Cannot Stifle Voices of all Journalists
10 Aug 2018
In light of the recent resignation of two senior journalists from ABP News, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Newsclick Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha discuss the ongoing attack of press freedom in…
Prabir Purkayastha
73 Years Since Hiroshima: The Threat of a Nuclear Holocaust Still Haunts Us
06 Aug 2018
Where is Trump’s ‘my nuclear button bigger than yours’ rhetoric taking the world to? And Has nuclear proliferation treaty helped in moving towards disarmament?
Prabir Purkayastha
Even Sharma Knows that He Lost the Aadhaar Challenge
31 Jul 2018
All systems need human beings, and human beings will find ways around the security that they themselves have built.
Prabir Purkayastha
Trump's Actions Against Iran Pick Up From Where Bush Left Off: M.K. Bhadrakumar
25 Jul 2018
Former Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar and Prabir Purkayastha situate US belligerence against Iran in its historical context, as well as examine the geo-political situation in the region amid declining…
Prabir Purkayastha
The Putin-Trump Meet and the Collapse of Politics in the US
18 Jul 2018
Professor Aijaz Ahmad and Prabir Purkayastha discuss the outrage in the US in the aftermath of the Helsinki meeting
Prabir Purkayastha
Problems with the Revised Method of GDP Estimate
17 Jul 2018
Newsclick talked to Surajit Mazumdar, Professor of Economics, JNU about the mystery of numbers in the Indian Economy.
Prabir Purkayastha
How Race, Technology and History Play Out in the United States
12 Jul 2018
Langdon Winner speaks of the many ways in which African Americans in the US continue to be segregated spatially and socially even though it has been ages since the abolition of slavery.
Prabir Purkayastha
Lynch Mobs: What WhatsApp Will Not Do and BJP Won’t Ask
12 Jul 2018
It is time the people – in this country and elsewhere – raise the issue of how to control these tech monopolies, which are changing our social behaviour and modifying our political choices.