Hafta 196: the Dantewada attack, air pollution, the Statue of Unity and more

In this week’s NL Hafta, we’re joined by former NDTV editor Hridayesh Joshi along with the regular Hafta gang of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan and Madhu Trehan. This week we discuss air pollution, the death of Doordarshan News cameraperson Achyuta Nanda Sahu who was killed in a Naxal attack, the new Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel statue, and a little more on publishing houses.

An expert on subjects like climate change, Naxalism and politics, Hridayesh Joshi gives us interesting insight in this episode. Starting with air pollution, Joshi talks about various development schemes of the government like the Char Dham Yatra project, which led to the indiscriminate cutting of trees in Uttarakhand. Various nuances of climate change are touched upon. Joshi also tells us how the death of the Doordarshan News journalist was avoidable and how reporting from a Naxal zone has to be done while following certain cardinal rules.

Hear Madhu Trehan speak on a not very decent tweet by Divya Spandana. She also tells us why “sharam sabki utari hui hai‘ when it comes to politics and politicians. The panel also talks about Twitter obsessions and its hazardous effects. Will the coming elections be the dirtiest and the cheapest one we’ve seen yet? Have we normalised Gaali-Galoch in politics?

This and more in the latest episode of NL Hafta!

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References

WHO: Toxic air killed over 1 lakh children in India in 2016

The MJ Akbar playbook: Men look back at how he preyed on women colleagues in newsrooms and got away

Recommendations

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Patel: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi

Manisha Pande

This Is How We Radicalized The World

Anand Vardhan

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson

Saket by Maithili Sharan Gupt

Madhu Trehan

First Twitter Gave Me Power. Then I Felt Hopeless.

My MeToo, our WeToo

Abhinandan Sekhri

The ‘mob-lynching’ narrative around Mohammad Azeem’s death is false

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