Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Vardhan, Manisha and Anand Ranganathan analyse Rahul Gandhi’s speech at Berkeley and whether BJP needed to respond to that or not. Are Bullet trains in India, a vanity project? Hafta team does the cost benefit analysis. They talk about seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur’s murder, the case and the media coverage of it. What went wrong?
They discuss the Rohingya crisis will this impose a security threat to our nation. At last, they talk about Bobby Ghosh’s resignation from the Hindustan Times. Listen up, there are two song dedications in the end too.
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- A review of #NLHafta by Pallavi, Divya Swaminathan, Chandramauli, Ayush and Anonymous
- Newslaundry: Don’t blame everything on Social Darwinism
- The Late Show With Stephen Colbert: President Trump on drought, flooding and his daughter Ivanka
- NPR: On respect and social media ethics
- The Guardian: Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol
- Goodreads: How the BJP Wins
- Goodreads: Burma Chronicles
- BBC: Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar
- Radiolab: Anna in Somalia
- Time: Myanmar stands accused of ethnic cleansing. Here’s why
- Hindi media needs Asha Ranjan of Siwan, not Ravish Kumar of Press Club
- Goodreads: How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st Century
- Goodreads: Miss Laila- Armed and Dangerous
- Goodreads: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
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Caspian Report: YouTube channel
- The New York Times: As Irma’s winds rise, so does a debate over TV storm reporting
- Wall Street Journal: Sadanand Dhume article on criminal defamation
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