Ano-Knee-Mus 

Hey Abhinandan, I appreciate your measured response on Ezra Klein, and you also mentioned that you don't mind listening to Bill Maher. 

Personally, one of the reasons why I've found it hard to take someone like Ezra Klein seriously is because of what appears to be a clear blind spot in how he views the Israel-Palestine conflict, and even the nakedness of some of the war crimes [the former] committed has, at best, tempered his view. 

Then his involvement in "Dialog," a Peter Thiel secret society, meant I couldn’t take him seriously. 

Coming to Bill Maher, he’s been a bigot for a while, but now it’s pretty much out in the open. 

This is just one of the many clips you can find. 

When it comes to content, or anything else, we become what we consume, right? 

So, how do you square the circle when it comes to picking something like these two? 

(Just to be sure, I’m not playing any gotcha games here, just trying to understand your POV)

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Saugat

Hello Team, I am a long-time subscriber. Congratulations on the great story about Delhi SIR and all the good work that you guys do. There was a recent hearing on the National Herald case, and there was hardly any coverage, not even in the alternative media (or maybe I have missed it). It would be good to see NL covering the story or making an explainer. Congress supporters and the left-leaning media usually call every other regional or smaller party the B team of the BJP. No one doubts the BJP’s ability to arrest any leader through the ED or CBI, but they never touch the Gandhis or any other incumbent CM of INC-ruled states. Don’t you guys find it strange? I'd love to hear Manisha, Raman, and Abhinandan's thoughts. Please don't wait for the Hafta when all 3 come together. Cheers!

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Anonymous

I would like to say that as an educated woman who was married for 16 years and separated, I did not have the right to divorce. I would have had to contest it, which I could not afford. My husband deprived his sons and me of his alimony, and I eventually filed an alimony case that went into mediation, which only got me some money when my older son, who had just graduated from high school, said he would never talk to his Father if money was not given to me. Years later, my husband found divorce papers in his cupboard, immediately remarried, and gave a one-time settlement with no share of his property. I never got any inheritance in my Father’s property either. Women suffer due to patriarchy in our society.

We must look into the Hindu Code Bill drafted by Dr Ambedkar, which did not pass in Nehru’s Parliament in the mid-50s; after this event, Dr Ambedkar resigned from Parliament.

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Dhruv

In keeping with Abhinandan's spirit of consuming news/opinions from contrarian perspectives, I was wondering if any pro-Modi/BJP speakers aren’t completely illogical jokers. In the US, podcasters like Tucker Carlson put forward coherent, logical and interesting points – I probably disagree with a lot of his views but can’t deny that the man has enough intellectual depth to hold a fruitful conversation. The best I can find on the Indian right tends to be Arnab clones like your former Hafta panellist. I'd like to think there are smarter, more coherent people than him on the right.

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