NL Hafta – Episode 56

Mukul Kesavan, professor of Social History at Jamia Millia Islamia University and columnist, joins us for this week’s episode of NL Hafta. The team discusses Smriti Irani’s speech in Parliament, the continuing media coverage of the JNU row and the India Today sting on the group of lawyers who beat up Kanhaiya Kumar in police custody. The team then discusses The Telegraph’s “Aunty National” headline – was it sexist? Things get heated as ideological differences are brought up and the government’s handling of the JNU incident is critiqued.

For reference:

1. Chetan  Bhagat’s  tweet on Historians

2. Smriti Irani’s speech in parliament

3. The Telegraph‘s Aunty national headline

4. The Telegraph fact checks Smriti Irani’s speech

5. Global Summits: Data Revolution Episode

5. Abhinandan Sekhri’s article: Some things the army can’t do. That’s where we civilians come in

6. Madhu Trehan’s article: #JNU vs pseudo patriotism with popcorn 

7. India Today sting

8. Vikram Johri’s article: JNU and the need for a new politics beyond Left and Right

9. Kanhaiya Kumar’s mother’s interview

10. Azadi by Dub Sharma

11. Radiolab’s K-poparazzi

12. Brainpickings.org

13. HuffingtonPost article on gravitational waves

15. Kangana Ranaut’s advertisement for AskMe Grocery

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Produced by Kartik Nijhawan

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