My mother said the most bizarre thing to me this afternoon over a very elaborate Bengali lunch. Claiming she had read it in the papers. ...
05:54 PM, Sep 27, 2012
A sinister wind of communal violence is blowing across the country. A senior editorial colleague tells me that it is being fanned by fanatic saffron ...
11:25 PM, Aug 25, 2012
It is quite surprising that the Comptroller and Auditor General has not advised denationalisation of the coal industry in its report to Parliament. The CAG ...
08:38 PM, Aug 17, 2012
![Trupti Rane]( "Trupti Rane")
Recently I got an opportunity to visit Chianttar and shoot a few corruption-related Citizen Journalist stories. Located around 45 km from Patna, Chianttar is a ...
01:16 PM, Dec 22, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
We Indians are very good at celebrating the ritual of anniversaries. Perhaps, we believe that an annual ceremonial occasion entitles us to have selective amnesia ...
12:14 AM, Dec 16, 2011
![Sagarika Ghose]( "Sagarika Ghose")
Lines from the recent 2G judgement denying bail to Kanimozhi and others are telling. "Kanimozhi belongs to the upper echelons of society and is also ...
09:18 AM, Nov 09, 2011
![Bhupendra Chaubey]( "Bhupendra Chaubey")
These are indeed extraordinary times. How else should one interpret the order that's been delivered while denying bail to the likes of Kanmozhi and others. ...
03:43 PM, Nov 03, 2011
![Ashwin Sanghi]( "Ashwin Sanghi")
With Dussehra around the corner and an uneasy truce between the Home Minister and Finance Minister, Panditji's prediction is that the 'devil' lies in the ...
01:30 PM, Sep 30, 2011
![Brijesh Kalappa]( "Brijesh Kalappa")
Lawyers appearing in the Special Court trying the accused in the 2G Scam and those appearing for various parties in the Supreme Court affirm this ...
02:00 PM, Sep 27, 2011
![Ashwin Sanghi]( "Ashwin Sanghi")
This depicts the traditional Indian custom of appending the suffix "Ji" to each and every name that we come across. Enjoy it Ji. ...
01:49 PM, Aug 22, 2011
![Dakshina Muraleedharan]( "Dakshina Muraleedharan")
Things were going well for Oommen Chandy after the initial hiccups of forming a UDF government with the macho allies. His ambitious 100-day governance program ...
04:29 PM, Aug 10, 2011
![Ashwin Sanghi]( "Ashwin Sanghi")
Recently one of the VIP inmates at Tihar claimed that he had dementia and thus was unable to remember his actions for the period in ...
12:03 PM, Aug 09, 2011
![Sagarika Ghose]( "Sagarika Ghose")
There is too much cynicism and negativism A stray insight sometimes goes unnoticed. Manmohan Singh's closed-door meeting with handpicked editors last month generated controversy ...
12:02 AM, Jul 13, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
On the night of the 2009 General Election results, the irrepressible Suhel Seth, opinion television's angry impresario for all seasons, described the DMK as Delhi ...
12:01 AM, Mar 11, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
What happens when you place a group of 25 television 'editors' in a room with the Prime Minister of the country and broadcast the interaction ...
12:04 AM, Feb 17, 2011
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
Dear Dr Singh, Greetings! This is my second open letter to you this year. The first was in May when I had again ...
12:07 AM, Dec 17, 2010
![Ipsita Shome]( "Ipsita Shome")
One scam after another. So many, that we tend to miss it when a day passes by without popular media coverage of corruptives. Fellow tweeter ...
11:26 AM, Dec 08, 2010
![Rajdeep Sardesai]( "Rajdeep Sardesai")
There was a time when editors were not seen or heard, only read. One of the best illustrations of the original 'ivory tower' approach was ...
12:06 AM, Dec 03, 2010
