PM Narendra Modi hit backs at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s ‘Neech’ remark by stating that Mani Shankar Aiyar portrays the Congress’ ‘Mughlai mindset.’ Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Manisha Pande and Atul Chaurasia try to analyse what is election campaigning and what is not? Abhinandan does an analysis of how Indian political leaders behave differently when they are with US leaders and when they are in India. Madhu Trehan discusses Nitish Kumar’s opinion of nation-wide alcohol ban and what it can lead to? Manisha points out that the condom ad by Sunny Leone was the idea behind the condom ad ban between 6 am to 10 pm. Atul feels it was actually a solution to a nationwide problem as the condom was a dogma in previous times which got removed due to such advertisements. Anand Ranganathan talks about Ram Setu bridge and how it has been reported as man-made by a US science channel. The panel discusses TV news in India and how the opinion polls, exit polls, and polls of polls are a useless discussion including their favourite channels, Republic and Times Now. Listen up, there is a song dedicated in the end to all our wonderful subscribers.
Reference links:
1) A review of NL Hafta by Prateek, Bimal and Dhiraj
Abhinandan Sekhri:
2) Is Justice Revenge?
3) Time: The Last Temptation of Michael Flynn
4) The Print: Why are Hindus trying to prove that they can become ISIS-like extremists: Taslima Nasreen
Anand Ranganathan:
5) Dunkirk
6) New Scientist: What do the new ‘gay genes’ tell us about sexual orientation?
Manisha Pande:
7) The New Yorker: Cat Person
8) The New Yorker: The Case for Not Being Born
Madhu Trehan:
9) The Economic Times: Why there is so much more at stake than Gujarat
10) The Guardian: Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart
Atul Chaurasia:
11) Independent: Rohingya crisis: At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims killed in one month, says Doctors Without Borders
Others:
The Times Of India: Criminal politicians: Centre agrees to special courts to deal with cases against MPs, MLAs
Livemint: HDFC Bank Q2: Rising NPAs a smudge on an otherwise stellar record
The Indian Express: A meeting, a conspiracy
The Free Press Journal: Ram Setu is man-made, says the new Science Channel show ‘What on Earth’
Science Channel: Are the ancient Hindu myths of a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka true? Scientific analysis suggests they are.
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