Weekend Reads At least six Bharatiya Janata Party leaders that Liz Mathew of the Indian Express contacted, including a Union minister, a...
Weekend Reads
- At least six Bharatiya Janata Party leaders that Liz Mathew of the Indian Express contacted, including a Union minister, admitted that the leaked WhatsApp chats of Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami put them in a spot, with some comparing them to the infamous Nira Radia tapes.
- Beyond the more gossipy bits of the leaks, Ayush Tiwari of Newslaundry looks at an important question: did Rajyavardhan Rathore bury Republic TV’s multi-crore corruption complaint?
- “Wisecracks about a 25-year-old Bollywood song and Home Minister Amit Shah in a nine-month-old YouTube video, a law that does not exist and another wrongly applied form the basis of a Uttar Pradesh police arrest warrant against standup comic Munawar Faruqui, now in jail for 18 days in Madhya Pradesh for jokes he did not make,” write Saurabh Sharma and Kunal Purohit for Article 14.
- Aishwarya S Iyer reporting for the Quint pens a portrait of Munawar Faruqui, who lost his mother at a young age to suicide and worked hard to make it in the difficult world of stand-up comedy.
- India has sent millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses to countries around the globe, using its large vaccine manufacturing industry as a powerful diplomatic tool, writes Joanna Slater of the Washington Post.
- Dismissing criticism of India’s vaccine process in nationalist tones does not help India, writes Anand Krishnan...
