This week on NL Hafta, it is an all-Newslaundry panel of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Anand Vardhan.

The discussion opens with Jayashree talking about the Tamil Nadu government’s response to #CycloneNivar. Comparing it with the handling of the 2015 Chennai floods, she says, “The government response, clearly learning its lessons from the past, has been great. As early as November 23, they had gotten in place national disaster relief forces...relief camps were set up, and the communication from the government has been extremely clear. This was one of their huge failures during the Chennai floods.”

Talking about the ongoing #farmerprotests, Raman says, “I am all for this protest. Of course, protest is an integral part of democracy and it should happen but you should see the protest that happened around Delhi, there was so much hooliganism.”

The panel also discuss the “#lovejihad” ordinance passed by the Uttar Pradesh government and the Indian judiciary’s handling of “forcible conversions” cases.

Podcast: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/11/28/hafta-304-cyclone-nivar-farmer-protests-and-love-jihad-laws

Timecodes:
0:00 - Headlines
7:51 - Cyclone Nivar hits Chennai and Puducherry
14:43 - Kerala withdraws Police Act amendment
28:57 - Farmer protests
44:05 - Jallikattu goes to the Oscars
47:24 - UP brings ‘love jihad’ ordinance
1:12:15 - ED summons Shiv Sena MLA
1:16:57 - Subscriber mail
1:27:47 - Sushil Modi accuses Lalu Prasad Yadav of running political show from behind bars
1:32:23 - Recommendations

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