Journalist Shivam Vij joins us this week to weigh in on weekly affairs along with the Hafta team. Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan, along with Vij, discuss TDP quitting the NDA. Abhinandan talks about the interesting history of Chandrababu Naidu’s political life. Moving on, they talk about the 84th Congress plenary. What went wrong with the speeches of Rahul Gandhi and Navjot Singh Sidhu? Madhu Trehan tells us why Sidhu is not out of his mind. Apart from this, they talk about how the Cambridge Analytica controversy has rocked Indian politics. At last, they discuss Arvind Kejriwal apologising to Bikram Majithia, Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal. Also, emails from our subscribers. Listen up, there is a song dedication in the end too.
References:
Madhu Trehan
Extremism pays. That’s why Silicon Valley isn’t shutting it down
Sonia, sadly
Liberals, sadly
Liberally blinkered
Anand Vardhan
Tolstoy aur Saikil
Abhi bilkul Abhi
Akaal mein Saras
Abhinandan Sekhri
On MLK’s Living Legacy
Manisha Pande
Nature of Indian polity and lack of education means India will not groom Muslim leaders like the UK’s Sadiq Khan
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