Hafta 352: Sameer Wankhede and the NCB, arrests after India-Pak cricket match

This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Manisha Pande are joined by Sudhir Suryawanshi, assistant editor at the New Indian Express.

Sudhir takes the panel through the “drug bust” on the cruise ship in Mumbai and how the Narcotics Control Bureau works. He also explains how the Aryan Khan case has “drawn the line between how things work and how they are preferably ignored with the help of power”. “This case has worked like a distraction from the Lakhimpur violence,” he adds, and the panel agrees.

The conversation shifts to the crackdowns across the country after India lost to Pakistan in a cricket match. Abhinandan comments on the intolerance of the Indian state, and how charges of sedition against those supporting Pakistan “makes the state Taliban”.

This and a lot more on this week’s Hafta.

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Song: Jugni

Timecodes

00:00 - Introduction

3:21 - Headlines

11:30 - Aryan Khan controversy

18:51 - Controversy around Sameer Wankhede's religion

31:47 - Nawab Malik's influence

38:50 - Accidental deaths at Singhu border

41:36 - Pakistan's win over India, and subsequent arrests

45:30 - Shiv Sena's political identity

54:35 - Majoritarian intolerance

58:01 - Subscriber letters

1:23:07 - Recommendations

References

Bit by bit, trick by trick: How Central Vista became a reality

Central Vista is an illegitimate monument to deceit

Central Vista: The ignominy of building India’s parliament by breaking the law

Gujarat Model 2.0: The super elite’s magic wand to take over public space

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Produced and recorded by Aditya Varier and Tehreem Roshan, edited by Saif Ekram.

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