Podcast 121.0: Farmers Loan Waiver Epidemic, Qatar Crisis, Arun Shourie sides with NDTV

We discuss the epidemic of loan waivers by successive Congress and BJP governments in India. How good politics makes for bad economics and the reason this vicious cycle has become unavoidable. We then move onto the crisis in the Middle East and the shadow boxing between the United States and Qatar at the behest of Saudi Arabia. The last segment was on the downfall of NDTV and the downward slide of Arun Shourie.