This week on #NLHafta, the usual team of Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal and Anand Vardhan are joined by Newslaundry’s Jayashree Arunachalam and author #ChetanBhagat.

The discussion starts off with the economic slowdown in India. The panel moves on to discussing the current state of the media in India, given the ongoing “SSR frenzy”. The Indian audience’s obsession with entertainment, even while watching the news, is what Chetan believes is driving the media to focus on sensationalism.

The conversation shifts to the #farmbills, which are a bone of contention for the governing BJP and the Opposition.

This and more, only on this week’s Hafta.
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