When TV is the villain
Last night, prime time news television (or a section of it to be more accurate) found its villain of the day to explain India's World Cup loss: Virat Kohli...
Farewell Diptoshda
Journalism can leave you with tattered minds and bloated egoes: so were the wise words imparted to me by the late RK Laxman early on in my career. He...
The Uncommon Genius
For the first six years and a bit of my professional life, the common man was an intrinsic part of my life. Every morning, a little after 9 am,...
Republic Day Memories
Every Republic Day brings back memories of another day, another time. I was entering my teens when I arrived in Delhi for the first time to participate in the...
Good Luck Dr Bedi
Dr Kiran Bedi is an accomplished woman, one I respect and admire. A few years ago, I was a media representative at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad and...
Capital Showdown
So, the bugle has been sounded: after exactly a year Delhi is set to get an elected government. In a country where a week can be a long time...
The Courage of a cartoonist
And then they came for the cartoonists. The Indian Express headline this morning is quite brilliantly apt, more so because it reveals the cowardice of the hooded men with...