Newshour debate airs on Timesnow, this particular debate was on the subject of JNU student's anti national statements, and being unfamiliar to Arnab's hosting methods, I was in the for a big shock, because the whole episode was not a debate, it was an angry man shouting at the students without asking for any explanation (reminds me of my student days), actually he did ask for explanations, he just didn't let them explain.
For instance
In the first minute Arnab asks Mr. Lenin of the DSU (democratic students union) to speak, the second he starts talking, he was interrupted by Arnab who went on a 5 minute rant on how they (students of JNU) were neither democratic nor leftist, the DSU leader did try to explain something, I just couldn't hear anything admits all the noise that Arnab was making, then he asked a BJP member, Ms. Nupul, to speak, she was't interrupted for a minute, I thought Arnab being biased on the issue would at least let her talk, as BJP had similar opinions as his, but I wrong, he went on a similar rant cussing the JNU students for another 5 minutes, calling them anti National and terrorist, and this went on till the end of the show, he would ask someone to speak, give them a false hope and gobble it under their throat, there were certain parts in the show where everyone kept shouting their side of the story (think of 8 of them shouting different things all at once) it was a disaster, and I thought he was being particularly aggressive against a Muslim JNU student Umar, who was with him in the studio, when the show was over, I was irritated, angry and had learned nothing new.
So I decided to send a dissent tweet expressing my dissatisfaction on twitter, but he is not on twitter. So I thought I would at lest make a blog post out of it.
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