Hafta 83: Should media have bothered about AAP’s #MantriSexScandal?

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal fired MLA Sandeep Kumar when an ‘objectionable cd’ showing Kumar having sex surfaced, but should Kumar have been fired? And why is the media getting its knickers in a twist? There was a naked Jain monk in the Haryana assembly preaching misogyny, Rahul Gandhi came out as less of a wuss in his case against the RSS. Mihira Sood, a Supreme Court lawyer joins this episode of NL Hafta to discuss backlash against the conviction of Mahmood Farooqui. And bringing joy to homes in North India, PM Narendra Modi posed for Reliance Jio ads. Listen up as Abhinandan Sekhri, Anand Ranganathan, Madhu Trehan, Deepanjana Pal and Manisha Pande, along with our special guest discuss this week’s top news. This time, instead of a song, we have a poem dedication, read by Amitabh Bachchan. Enjoy!

For reference:

1. A Review of NL Hafta from Indraneel Pole, Sandeep Raghunathan & Srikanth Achanta
2. Mihira Sood’s piece: Why The Backlash Against the Mahmood Farooqui Judgment is Manipulative And Dangerous
3. Time: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Less Forthcoming Than Past Candidates
4. Radiolab: Playing God
5. Time: My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family
6. The Indian Express: In fact: Draft Bill targets celeb endorsers for misleading ads — or does it?
7. Newslaundry: Lessons from AAP’s #MantriSexScandal: Journalists have sad sex lives
8. Firstpost: Global Islamism, jihadism and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, my defence lawyer
9. Newslaundry: PM Modi: Salesman of the Year?
10. NYT: Edward Snowden’s Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood
11. Section 114A in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
12. Section 376 in The Indian Penal Code
13. NYT: How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West’s Secrets

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