NL Hafta – Episode 29

This week on NL Hafta, we discuss  the Comptroller and Auditor General’s audit of Delhi’s power distribution companies. We then move on to Cobrapost’s Operation Black Rain & how the English television media chose to ignore it. We also discuss PM Modi’s UAE trip & the speech he delivered to the Indian diaspora. The team also discusses Tehelka being served a legal notice for listing Bal Thackeray as a terrorist in its cover and the police crackdown on FTII students. We close with a brief discussion about Mulayam Singh Yadav’s comments on gangrape and Rahul Gandhi’s visionary sarkar. We also dedicate a song to Rahul Gandhi.

For Reference:

1. Cobrapost: Operation Black Rain
2. Newslaundry report on Cobrapost Exposé:  How Ranvir Sena killed Dalits: An exposé by Cobrapost and some more delusionary denials of the existence of caste
3. The CAG audit of Delhi’s power discoms: A timeline
4. Tehelka‘s cover story by Mathew Samuel: Who Is The Biggest Terrorist Of Them All..?
5. Manu Joseph’s piece: Donald Trump, Subramanian Swamy: Right, politically incorrect
6. The Indian Express: The last slam: A year after his last WWE fight, life of ‘The Great Khali’ has turned a full circle 
7. Sister Helen Prejean on Real Time with Bill Maher
8. The New York Times: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
9. Ashley Madison: What’s in the leaked accounts data dump?
10. National Herald case: ED Director Rajan Katoch removed after he chose to close the case
11. The New York Times: Longtime Critic of Modi Is Now a Target

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Produced by Kartik Nijhawan

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