Last week Arnab Goswami launched his channel Republic TV and we can’t stop watching him as he announces scoop after scoop. Samrat, author and columnist joins the hafta gang this week to talk about Arnab Goswami and his style of journalism. Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan, Anand Ranganathan, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan also discuss the blasphemy case against Stephen Fry, Kapil Mishra’s corruption allegations against Arvind Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party’s EVM hacking demonstration on the floor of the Delhi assembly and Madhu Kishwar’s appointment to the Academic Council in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Listen Up, there’s a lot more.

For reference:

1. A review of #NLHafta from Anson Antony and AlButina
2. Welcome, Arnab. Newslaundry missed you!
3. Newslaundry: Global India, Insular Media
4. Swarajya: JNU Manufactures Outrage Over Madhu Kishwar’s Appointment To Academic Council; So What’s New? 
5. Newslaundry: The Fall And Rise Of Kejriwal
6. LiveMint: The idea of a liberal university
7. Newslaundry: Pratap Bhanu Mehta: A public intellectual in a private university
8. LiveMint: What happens when billionaires seek immortality
9. Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
10. Zee News’ Sudhir Chaudhary did an amazing show on fake news
11. News18: Violence as the new normal
12. Mozart-The Marriage of Figaro
13. The Indian Express: Over-Reaction
14. The Dawn: Beliefs above adversity
15. The Brown Paper: Our Pakistani Friend Spent His Weekend Watching Republic TV
16.  The Indian Express: ‘Islamists will kill me if I don’t hide… if they do nothing, Bangladesh govt will arrest me’

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