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This week on Hafta, Manisha Pande and Anand Vardhan are joined by Pooja Prasanna of The News Minute and Sobhana K Nair, senior deputy editor of The Hindu . The panel focuses sharply on the assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, and the contentious issue of delimitation. Check out previous Hafta recommendations, references, songs and letters . Produced by Amit Pandey with production assistance from Sourav. Sound by Naresh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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