discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers you knock shirazi mina india is now halfway through its general election process which lasts for a month and there is this strange story about a non political interaction with the country's leading politician prime minister narendra modi so what was that about. this was clearly an attempt by mary and the more the to get a boost from bollywood through an interview conducted by the phone star. questions it was broadcast online by asian news international and i it's a private news agency that benefits from close access to not in the more the and his party the b j p of course many mainstream channels then picked up the interview and anna did its entirety. the tone was beyond informal it was phoning and this interview has been positioned quite carefully to avoid falling afoul of election commission rules now conventional broadcast interviews are banned while voting is under way and so this interview was labeled a nonpolitical interaction so this is modi in the b j p spotting a loophole in the election rules and just t