The Hafta gang discuss how the debates surrounding Gurmehar Kaur’s appeal for peace amidst the chaos of the Ramjas College protests is indicative of all that is wrong with mainstream television journalism in India. Our panellists Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan, Manisha Pande, Deepanjana Pal are on fire. Joining them is Sandeep Bamzai, Editor-in-Chief of the Financial Chronicle. Bamzai thinks that Ramjas College’s literary society was “baiting” the rest of the students by inviting PhD student Umar Khalid, who was charged with sedition last year. There are clashes of opinion as we discuss the new juvenile law and Casey Affleck receiving an Oscar. Sekhri and Ranganathan butt heads, Bamzai explains why the growth in our Gross Domestic Product could be for real and find out what our panel thinks of the Supreme Court’s decision to reject a woman’s request to abort her 26-week-old foetus. Also, Bamzai coins a new term, Teleguerrillas. Tune in to find out who this is. All this and more on this week’s Hafta. Listen up
For references:
- A Review of #NLHafta from Abhishek Bagga, Dhiraj Bhandary and Jeevan Singh
- Newslaundry: Let’s Talk About: Post-Truth
- Scientific American: Hundreds of Babies Harmed by Homeopathic Remedies, Families Say
- Deccan Chronicle: India’s rocket women
- Bloomberg: Is Indian Data Turning Chinese?
- Huffington Post: Indian-Americans Must Realize That Their Complacency Will Not Save Them From Hate In America Any More
- The Indian Express: Under new juvenile law, two minors get life for murder
- Scroll.in: SC rejects pregnant woman’s plea to abort foetus diagnosed with Down Syndrome
- Elle: What We Lose When We Give Awards to Men Like Casey Affleck
- Millenium Post: Challenging The Narrative
- Live Mint: What analysts, economists think of India’s GDP growth rate at 7%
- Newslaundry: Advance Taxpayer Spoof Ad
- Huffington Post: Here’s A Video Of Travis Kalanick Chewing Out An Uber Driver
- Scientific American: Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
- The Atlantic: Donald Trump and Late-Night: Two (Completely Different) Strategies
- The Guardian: Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
- Newslaundry: Bhupendra Chaubey And The Case Against False Equivalence
- NPR: A Taste For Pork Helped A Deadly Virus Jump To Humans
- Newslaundry: Gene Therapy
- Radio Lab‘s podcast: Update: CRISPR
- The Telegraph: ‘Mystery’ label on note-neutral data
- Newslaundry: Morality Syndrome
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