Supreme Court’s notice to Karnataka regarding the Cauvery keeps both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on the edge, but was the media coverage a little too hyperbolic? Also, is ‘Why no pellet guns?’ a justified question? RSS generated heat with Kerala over festival myths and caused a debate over what precisely is the nature of Onam. Indian Express did superb investigative reporting (once again) on Jan Dhan One-Rupee Trick. Indian media showered all their attention on Aam Aadmi Party, Pakistan and Balochistan. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal got into a Twitter brawl with Shekhar Gupta and Rahul Kanwal (does AAP need a better PR team? Yes). Pictures of Dhaka’s streets filled with blood-red water raises the age old question of sacrificing rituals once again. Join Anand Ranganathan, Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Deepanjana Pal, along with our guest this week Dhanya Rajendran, Editor-in-chief of The News Minute, to discuss all this and much more on this week’s Hafta.
For references:
- A review of #NLHafta from Shruti Ladge, Piyush Khandelwal & Khalid Sayeed
- The Awful and Awesome Entertainment Wrap: Episode 10
- Newslaundry: The trouble with Mewat? Delhi’s near, but still very far
- Round Table India: The Murder of Dalit-Bahujan King Mahabali and the Myth of Onam
- Newslaundry: And now, Kejriwal slams journalists on Twitter
- The Quint: Don’t Slaughter Goats Inside My Housing Society!
- The India Today: How Dhaka streets transformed into blood streams after Eid sacrifices and rain
- The Indian Express: The One-Rupee Trick: How banks cut their zero-balance Jan Dhan accounts
- Newslaundry: This Eid, ‘rivers of blood’ flowed down Dhaka’s streets. Here’s why
- The New York Time: How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
- Newslaundry: Journo Deepak Chaurasia alleges threat calls after minister shared his numbers on Twitter
- The Wire: Who Should Karnataka Blame in the Cauvery Dispute? History Has Some Answers
- Gastropod: The Salt Wars
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