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OF CHANAKYA, VIR & TRUST
Most of us do not get too self-righteous about corruption; we have been brutalised by decades of it. But I think we feel differently about attempts to sell off our scarce resources. It’s one thing for...
View ArticleNL INTERVIEWS SHOBHANA BHARTIA
Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson - Hindustan Times Group, speaks to Madhu Trehan about being forced to look more at the business than the editorial side of the paper, HT being a “mind product” and why HT...
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JUSTICE VERMA (1933-2013)
DEDICATION TO J S VERMA (1933 – 2013) Late on Monday, April 22, 2013, Jagdish Sharan Verma, better known as J S Verma, breathed his last. He was 80. But through the last months of life, he worked, in...
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SHIT CELEBRITIES SAY
Did you watch the coverage following the Boston bomb blasts and the MIT shootings? Did you notice Lindsay Lohan, Bruce Willis, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and Jay-Z on various...
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NEW FRIENDS ON THE PAPER BLOCK
Come this morning and news of the international media bonhomie from the land of milk and honey was all over the press and social media. Chicago Tribune had sent pizzas to Boston Globe’s newsroom in...
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MEDIA MONOCLE 4
The two golden words on TV “Fucking shit” - those two golden words were uttered live on a US TV channel the other day. On April 22, 2013, American journalist A J Clemente began his career as a TV...
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MODI, MAYA & A MUTED MEDIA
Nothing in the Indian media brings out the Grand Opinionator in every journalist, letter to the editor/online comment writer or water cooler-with-half-a-brain than the subject of communal politics. If...
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WHY KASHMIR’S MEDIA LOVES MUSH
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf’s return after four years of self-exile did not dominate the Pakistani media the way it should have, considering the fact that he had ruled the country for...
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NO ENTRY TO DANTEWADA
Morpalli, Taadmetla and Tamipuram are villages in Sukma district of Chattisgarh. Earlier they were in Dantewada. For most people Dantewada is the so-called “liberated” Maoist zone where the Maoists...
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TRAWLING TWITTER FOR TROLLS
Ask any Harry Potter fan worth his/her salt, how Ron and Hermione became friends, and they’ll say “the troll in the bathroom”. In the (relative) innocence of pre-Twitter days, a troll simply meant an...
View ArticleCLOTHESLINE – EPISODE 3
The week's round-up of the good, the bad and the funny from news television.
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MANMOHAN SINGH: LACKING INTEGRITY?
It’s not that I don’t believe that the Prime Minister is a man of personal integrity – he most certainly is. However, something about the notion that his being honourable is the same as his having...
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US, SCARED? HAH!
This isn’t a new discussion or debate. It’s been speculated on, denied, accusations have been hurled and abuse has been heaped - all because many feel that news channels fear naming powerful ministers...
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RAVAL’S LETTER BOMB
I heard a new verse of the kid’s poem, which goes “I sent a letter to my boss and on the way I copied it”. What inspired it? Well, on April 30, 2013, the Government of India asked Additional Solicitor...
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THE LIST OF LISTS
My colleague and co-writer at Newslaundry, Anand Vardhan has a rather critical take on lists. A piece I highly recommend. While I’m not against lists per se, there is some merit in the criticism that...
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PANACEA CITY
Lore has it that Buddha, the most famous Patna-watcher, had cautioned the ancient city against the dangers of flood, fire and feud. He didn’t prescribe any solution. And he never claimed to be a...
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TV NEWS’ RIDER ON THE STORM
There is an old new geezer in town and he goes by the name of Shiv Aroor. Geezer: the delightful Cockney equivalent of the Yankee “dude”, but subtler – imagine Robert De Niro tossed along with Michael...
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NO! YOU’VE GOT TO BE JOKING
Nowadays, you look at the morning news and think, right I’ve probably read the worst possible thing that could have happened in India and then you read the next day’s one and something even worse pops...
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MEDIA MONOCLE 5
Biggest Loser Kaun? A reporter’s job is worse than that of a garbage-collector, says a survey conducted by the American human resource consultancy CareerCast. The survey looked at various professions...
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NEWS IN THE TIME OF TWITTER
When everyone has a camera and a keypad, does everyone become a journalist? Events have unfolded before eyewitnesses for thousands of years but it is only in the recent past that people have walked...
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