Hafta 105: #Budget2017, The US’s immigration ban, attack on Sanjay Leela Bhansali & more

The Union Budget was announced this week and we discuss some key highlights of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s speech. The regular Hafta gang, that is Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan, Deepanjana Pal and Manisha Pande are joined by journalist Vivek Kaul who tells us if this Budget is different from the previous ones. The team also discusses US President Donald Trump’s immigration ban, the Rs 2,000 cap on cash donations to political parties, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress alliance and the attack on Sanjay Leela Bhansali. A little into the podcast, Ranga Uncle and Sekhri digress and disagree on the idea of “whataboutery”: is it intellectually lazy or stimulating to indulge in it?

All this and a lot more discussed and dissected on this episode. Listen up!

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