This week, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Manisha Pande are joined by Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of the Wire, and Happymon Jacob, author, commentator and JNU professor.

Siddharth talks about his organisation's reporting on the revelations that dozens of Indian activists, politicians and journalists – including the Wire editor himself – were targets or potential targets of surveillance using the Israeli spyware Pegasus.

Happymon analyses the Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops after 20 years of war.

Amid public health concerns given the coronavirus pandemic and several athletes backing out, Abhinanadan opines that the Tokyo Olympics “is not going to achieve what the Olympics is supposed to”.

Listen to the audio podcast: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/07/24/hafta-338-pegasus-snooping-afghanistan-war-and-tokyo-olympics

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Time Codes:

0:00 - Headlines
05:45 - Pegasus snooping
49:30 - Afghanistan crisis
1:24:15 - Tokyo Olympics
1:34:24 - Subscriber emails
1:54:13 - Recommendations

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