In this episode of NL Hafta 202, the regular Hafta gang of Manisha Pande, Abhinandan Sekhri, and Anand Vardhan is joined by Saurabh Dwivedi, founder-editor of Lallantop.
Saurabh, who travelled for a month in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in the run-up to the elections, has some great insights to share. The team discusses the reasons for Congress’ victory in the Hindi heartland and whether it will have any bearing on the 2019 general election.
Saurabh explains how PM Modi failed as a communicator in Chhattisgarh and why his speeches didn’t click with the masses.
Anand tells us why political analysis as we see in news media is overrated. Abhinandan says the Assembly results were not Rahul Gandhi’s Pappu-pass-ho-gaya moment, but more a failure of the BJP government.
The Hafta gang also discusses the resignation of RBI chief Urjit Patel and his successor Shaktikanta Das. Abhinandan says: “…the way everyone is dismissing him on his degree, I disagree with that…I will not diss him on that.”
Finally, the team discusses the Ambani wedding and what it means to be as rich as Mukesh Ambani.
Listen up!
Recommendations
Saurabh Dwivedi:
Emergency Chronicles by Gyan Prakash
Anand Vardhan:
Modern South India by Rajmohan Gandhi
Manisha Pande:
Time Magazine person of the year
Abhinandan Sekhri :
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