It is difficult to recall when the last time the media got such bad press within the ruling establishment was....
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Desi Punch, Italian Judy
On our cable TV screens, the hottest things were supposed to be the Indian remakes of foreign serials and sitcoms....
September 11, February 28
It’s now been so long since the Cold War ended that we are even beginning to forget the old Soviet-American...
The Hindutva Rate of Growth
One simple — if sometimes simplistic — way of assessing a government’s health is to see who it is willing...
Guiltless in Guwahati
What do you say when people ask you what difference do you see when you visit Guwahati after five years?...
Pot’s blacker than the kettle
In their defence of the indefensible some BJP spokesmen have used one touching argument: that the Congress had no business...
Kalam’s banana republic
Wrap science in the tricolour and you legitimise mediocrity To be fair to Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, it is possible...
Our hell on wheels
You don’t need Stephen Hawking’s intellect to figure out the many awful things that could have happened to him if...
Chinese checkers
Li Peng should consider himself lucky he had only the customary Tibetan protestors to greet him on arrival. This time,...
The Punjab parable
In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...
To Kashmir, via the world
The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department has lately been aggressive in advertising the Taj Mahal. But, if you look closely at...
The wisdom of fools
If only the Congress party was half as smart as some of its opponents are stupid, it wouldn’t have been...