Hafta 95: Kanpur Train Tragedy, #SoniaSpeaksUp And Money Talk

The Indore Patna Express train tragedy is one of the worst rail accidents India has suffered, with 146 lives lost and many injured. Should there have been more news on this rather than demonetisation? Should the Indian Railways not face more heat from the media? Kanchan Gupta, Commissioning Editor & Commentator, ABP News, joins us for this episode of Hafta, with Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Deepanjana Pal, Anand Ranganathan and Manisha Pande. Gupta and Sekhri disagree on the Right’s view of Trump. We also discuss demonetisation and why Gupta believes economists should not be allowed into corridors of power. Trehan offers her take on Rajdeep Sardesai’s exclusive ‘interview’ with Congress’ Sonia Gandhi. Should a journalist agree for an interview with restrictive pre-conditions? Also in this Hafta: nostalgia from Trehan and Gupta, jokes from Sekhri, and disagreements between Gupta and Ranganathan. Finally, this time, the panel has article and book recommendations. And of course, a very special song, inspired by Dr. Subhash Chandra’s love for “Rabinder Sangeet”.

For references:

1. A Review of #NLHafta from Rahul Pandey, Nidhi Anarkat and Vinod Nicholas
2. The New Yorker podcast: Zadie Smith, And Conservatives Strike Back
3. The Economist: The hole at the heart of economics
4. Live Mint: Demonetisation: Are the poor really suffering?
5. NPR‘s podcast: Episode 736: Messy Nobel
6. Radio Open Source podcast: Normalize, Demonize, Mobilize: How Do You Respond to Donald Trump?
7. Moeen akhtar(late) and others in loose talk as a indo pak mushairah: Episode-1, Episode-2
8. The Daily Beast: Major TV Executives, Anchors to Meet with Trump
9. Sonia Gandhi Interview With Rajdeep Sardesai
10. The Washington Post: For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks
11. Off The Cuff With Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev
12. The New Yorker: The failure of facebook democracy
13. Rabbi Shergill – Jugni
14. The New York Review of Books: Autocracy: Rules for Survival
15. The Atlantic: Teaching 1984 in 2016

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