In this episode of Hafta Jairaj Singh, founding editor of DailyO, joins the regular Hafta gang of Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Manisha Pande to discuss the PM’s Independence Day speech; what he mentioned, what he missed and what he should have spoken about.
VS Naipaul passed away last week and the Internet was flooded with tributes to the writer. Abhinandan asks the panel if he was really a great writer? Abhinandan disagrees.
Then the panel moves on to discuss attack on JNU student Umar Khalid outside Constitution Club of India, Narendra Modi’s speech claiming a man made tea using gas from gutter sludge and devastating floods in Kerala. Listen up! There’s more.
A review of NL Hafta by Prakash and Rohit
References:
1. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2. Somnath Chatterjee: a Marxist—and a Democrat
3. The V S Naipaul I came to know
4. Deepanjana’s blog: VS Naipaul: August 17, 1932 – August 12, 2018
5. Mumbai’s ex-pilot behind group aiming to bully ‘media’ into submission
6. Abhinandan’s piece: Do news channels like Times Now and NewsX realize what they are doing?
7. Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal
8. One boy in this August 15 photo is out of Assam NRC final draft
9. The Path Away From Arnab Goswami Cannot Lead Us Back To Barkha Dutt
10. Anand Vardhan’s piece: #AtalBihariVajpayee: Man of the Middle Ground
11. Video clip: Amit Shah drops the tricolour
12. India Today: Fact Check: Was the PM gassing about fuel from sewer?
Recommendations:
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What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?
Madhu
Rajdeep’s book: Newsman: Tracking India in the Modi Era
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish
Trevor Noah interviews Omarosa
Joan Didion: The Center will not Hold
Jairaj Singh
Abhinandan
Fake News Onslaught Targets Pizzeria as Nest of Child-Trafficking
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