Five states are gearing up for legislative assembly elections next month, including Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, Manipur and Goa. Hartosh Singh Bal, political editor of The Caravan, joins us on this episode to talk about the ground situation in Punjab, while. Kishalay Bhattacharjee, consulting editor of Newslaundry, tells us about Manipur elections. Along with Bal and Bhattacharjee, we have Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan and Manisha Pande on the panel this week to discuss attack on Bela Bhatia’s house in Chhattisgarh, Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance in UP and Shah Rukh Khan’s piece in The Indian Express. All this and a lot more discussed and dissected on this episode. Listen up!
For references:
- A Review of #NL Hafta from Havil Mitra, Mir Amer Hussain and Deepti Sharma
- Indian Express: On this man rests a rail system
- Newslaundry: Coming Soon – Let’s Talk About: Kashmir
- Economist: Two strange mammals illuminate the process of natural selection
- Caravan: Under A Cloud
- Time: Europe’s Far-Right Leaders Unite at Dawn of the Trump Era
- Radio Open Source: The Obama Years
- Newslaundry: We are safe for now but what about all those who are being harassed on a daily basis? : Bhatia’s partner Jean Dreze
- Newslaundry: What The Fatah
- The Guardian: Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after pioneering surgery
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