It’s a very special episode of the Hafta because for the first time, we turned on both microphones and camera this week when novelist Chetan Bhagat joined us in the Newslaundry office.

(If you missed yesterday’s Facebook Live with Hafta, you can watch it here.)

Lest you think video killed the podcast star, never fear, there’s a lot more than 37 minutes to this week’s edition of Hafta. Listen up as Bhagat joins Madhu Trehan, Abhinandan Sekhri, Deepanjana Pal, Manisha Pande, Anand Ranganathan, as they tackle an eventful week. And given Bhagat began his life as a banker — with Goldman Sachs, no less — the much-loved novelist was actually the perfect person to discuss demonetisation with. He’s even got some hacks for those of you wondering what to do with your old Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes. (Spare a thought for poor Ranga Uncle, who did the rounds of seven banks and was left with one Rs 100.)

And for entertainment in these otherwise grim times, Manohar Parrikar has suffered another attack of foot-in-mouth disease. Also, there’s the NDTV India and, of course, the man of the moment: America’s President elect, Donald J Trump.

Listen up for jokes, insight and of course, the song at the end.

For reference:

1. A Review of #NLHafta from Himanshu Tyagi, Sumanta Mukherjee and Pratyush Sinha
2. Planet Money‘s podcast: Why (Almost) No One In Myanmar Wanted My Money
3. Vanity Fair: Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President
4. The New Yorker: Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
5. Ajay Shah’s blog: Surgical strike on old Rs.500,1000 notes
6. NPR: Trump Won. The Media Lost. What Next?
7. Hindustan Times: There’s a serious problem with modern democracy, but what is the alternative?
8. Newslaundry: #NDTVBanned: The Confused ‘Idealism’ of Swarajya
9. CNN: How did Trump win? Here are 24 theories
10. The Guardian: ‘Not even my wife knows’: secret Donald Trump voters speak out
11. The National Green Tribunal Petition
12. Chetan Bhagat’s piece in The Times of India: Why US media got Trump so wrong, and the right lesson we can learn from it

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