Day out at AMU
Aligarh Muslim university: the name conjures up images of another age. Like so much else in western UP, AMU too likes to live in its past glory. So I...
Two sides of TV News
Targeting news channels has become shooting practice, even a business model for some. Politicians abuse us, social media outrages against us, even media watchdog sites love to hang anchors...
Thank you All!
Prime minister Narendra Modi attracts strong, polarised responses: you either love him or hate him it appears. Which is why searching for the middle ground when it comes to...
When Ashutosh cried
It is easy to be cynical of netas. So many of them have failed us that we now have little to feel sanguine about. So when a neta breaks...
The Rahul Circus
Rahul Gandhi is back, and so is the silly season in the media. One of the silliest things we do (this writer included) is to ‘rate a speech’. Yesterday,...
Dear politicians, stop this malicious anti-media campaign
This is, it seems, open season for name calling against the media. The Union minister and former army chief, General VK Singh, describes journalists as ‘presstitutes’. He has probably,...
Honouring Babasaheb
A few years ago, we invited a public vote to decide on the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi for the History tv channel. The winner, by some distance, was...
Apologise Gen Singh
I interviewed General VK Singh before he became a minister. This was soon after he had retired amidst swirling rumours that he was planning to join politics after...
One-day cricket’s AstroTurf moment
The 2015 World Cup was fast and furious. But was it really cricket as we knew the sport, and will Team India be able to compete in a new...
Losing semi-final is not ‘national shame’, farmer suicide is
On the night before India’s World Cup semi-finals with Australia, I innocently tweeted: ‘Heart with India, head with Australia.’ Within minutes, followers on my twitter account were enraged: Not...