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Time for media to turn the gaze inwards

The editor as the gatekeeper of news is being replaced by the editor as fixer…

In Indira’s image: How Narendra Modi is similar to a Gandhi

Narendra Modi today claims to derive inspiration from Sardar Patel and Swami Vivekananda even if…

AAP’s long-term future will not be decided by TV

The phrase ‘tyranny of distance’ was first used by writer Robert Hughes in his epic…

1984 riots vs 2002 riots: all that matters is accountability

Where were you during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots? It’s a question I have been often…

Modi, Rahul, Kejriwal competing to ‘shake up’ the system

In the 1970s, there was the anti-establishment hero; in 2014, there is the anti-establishment neta.…

If Kejriwal fails to deliver he may end up victim of his own success

The ubiquitous Rotary Clubs are a decent indicator of the urban upper middle class mood.…

There’s reason for cheer: 2014 may be better than 2013

A year can be almost an eternity in a country like India: last December, there…

Six degrees of separation: why it’s tough for Rahul to learn from AAP

Arvind Kejriwal and Rahul Gandhi are both youthful public figures in their 40s. Sadly, that’s…

Kejriwal and Modi – bringing politics back to the common man

On the face of it, Arvind Kejriwal and Narendra Modi are literally chalk and cheese.…

Banning of opinion polls is not a way forward

In the land of astrologers and soothsayers, it is faintly amusing to see our politicians…