NL Hafta – Episode 68: H​ow to​ be a ‘fully mentally Indian’

Do attacks on journalists reflect a growing intolerance? Should Muslims and Hindus be allowed to reform their respective religions or do they lack perspective? We refuse to discuss two years of Modi government on Hafta. Find out why. Also, is Vedanta sponsoring Jaipur Literature Festival in London a problem? And what’s with this obsession with renaming roads? We discuss it all and a lot more on this episode of NL Hafta. Bonus: we shed some light on Subramaniam Swamy’s list of reasons to fire Raghuram Rajan and figure out whether Madhu is ‘fully mentally Indian’. Double bonus: as always, we have a song.

For reference:

1. Husain Quadri’s letter to Newslaundry: A review of #NLHafta: Love and a little bit of tough love
2. Newslaundry: Trump makes it cool to be racist
3. Newslaundry’s 11-part podcast series on Global Summits.
4. Newslaundry: Five Dalit men died in Jind, and newspapers chose different headlines
5. Real Time with Bill Maher
6. Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s piece: Supreme Court’s judgment on criminal defamation is the latest illustration of a syndrome
7. NewScientist: Microbiomania – The truth behind the hype about our bodily bugs
8. Newslaundry: Pooja Tiwari and the sting in her tale
9. Newslaundry: The Honda Protests
10. The New Yorker: FULL EXPOSURE – Portfolio by Diane Arbus
11. New York Times internal report: We read it so you don’t have to
12. IndiaSpend: As crime rates in Bihar rise steadily, conviction rates are hitting an all time low

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