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Last week’s letters:

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This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Jayashree Arunachalam and Anand Vardhan are joined by advertising guru and columnist Santosh Desai and multimedia artist Anurag Minus Verma. 

Hi Hafta team, on the topic of elections, I am curious if there is any intellectual capacity or curiousity for alternate models either in the Indian context or elsewhere with the same five-year term or less governments.  Clearly, it seems to me that short termism in politics is not really…

Abhinandan is on hosting duties this week, with Manisha on the ground bringing you Another Election Show from states going to vote. 

While discussing Ferrari:

Hello,

I’m intrigued by the trend in Bollywood over the past decade, where a significant majority of big-screen releases, including films like Pathan, Tiger 3, Fighter, and Article 370, along with forthcoming ones like Yodha, heavily feature themes of hyper-nationalism, patriotism, or religion. It seems the industry is moving away from…

Shardool and Anand’s perspectives on the inauguration of the Ram temple are disconcerting for non-Hindus. Their assertion that their joy is organic seems myopic, as the Ram Janmabhoomi movement was undeniably political, exploited by the BJP for long-term political gains.