It’s noise, not news
American pop art icon Andy Warhol was probably right: everyone is looking for their 15 minutes of fame, only the time has now been compressed to a 15-second soundbite....
The game’s wide open
There is nothing journalists and the viewer love more than a ‘big fight’. A Roger Federer is a great tennis player, but the legend is enhanced because of his...
We must speak up now
It has been my experience that the best way to deal with political rabble-rousers is to call their bluff and bluster. I have never met Akbaruddin Owaisi, the 42-year-old...
Communication error
In the classic BBC political satire serial, ‘Yes Minister’, the minister Jim Hacker asks his senior bureaucrat Sir Humphrey Appleby how to deal with a group of protesters. “Don’t...
Modi versus the rest
Travelling into Gujarat during election time is like entering the kingdom of an absolute monarch. Never before has a state election been so completely dominated by the personality of...
A polarising figure
‘Don’t insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!’ warned the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, lighting up a pipe, glass of white wine in...
Advantage Modi
Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when there is still a month to go before voting. Even so, there is a...
Stuck in a time warp
Nitin Gadkari isn’t quite known to mind his language. A few weeks after he took over as BJP president, he expressed himself with typical candour to a group of...
From rumble to a roar
At a seminar in Delhi a few years ago, a soft-spoken, petite woman in a crumpled sari was one of the panelists. She engaged in the debate and then...
Happy birthday Amitabh Bachchan: 70 years young
The Shehenshah of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachchan, turns 70 on Thursday, October 11. In a special interview with IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on the occasion, Amitabh Bachchan talks about his...