NL Hafta – Episode 60

This week on NL Hafta, journalist and author Rahul Pandita talks about the condition of scribes in Bastar and the recent arrest of a reporter, Prabhat Singh. We talk about state intimidation in Chhattisgarh and what it means to be a stringer there. Pandita also talks about why being called a Kashmiri Pandit has more resonance for him than being called a Kashmiri Hindu. Moving on, we discuss the image of the Jet Airways flight attendant that has become the symbol of the Brussels blasts. Was it ethical for the media to publish the picture? We also look into what turned Microsoft’s AI bot, Tay, into a racist, holocaust denier. And, finally, we suggest some good reads we came across over the week.

For reference:

1. Sandip Roy’s We Need To Talk About This Picture
2. Microsoft Chat Bot Goes On Racist, Genocidal Twitter Rampage
3. Havells ad: Mai Pankha Hoon
4. Radiolab Podcast: Debatable
5. Open Source podcast: Donald Trump Is Breaking News
6. Youtube: Addiction
7. FT correspondent James Crabtree on bringing up a baby in Mumbai
8. India’s red tape causes trouble for exporting cats
9. Michael Taussig’s I Swear I Saw This
10. Intesaab by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

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Produced by Kartik Nijhawan

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