Seema Says | Bill to End MGNREGA, 14 Years Jail for Ex ISI Chief, Sinking Rupee

In this episode, The Wire’s Editor Seema Chishti talks about the new Bills introduced in parliament just before its close, the context behind the 14-year sentence to former ISI chief Faiz Hameed in Pakistan, what it means for the rupee to hit low after low, and the Netflix vs Paramount bidding on Warner Bros.

Seema’s recommendations:

1. A terrifying (and terrific) read on a nuclear device put in the Himalayas by the CIA and the Indians to spy on China, that has gone missing.

2. The book, Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, on issues around Idi Amin and his successor Museveni – on identity and colonialism in Africa. [Mamdani had to leave Uganda when Amin ordered Asians out in 1973.]

Jahnavi’s recommendations:

1. Sukanya Shantha’s series on the NIA.

2. ⁠The new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man.

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