Editorials in India’s major English newspapers on the “mutual disengagement” that India and China have agreed upon, are nearly unanimous in their verdict: under “strong man” Narendra Modi, India has …
The major English newspapers all have editorials on Narendra Modi‘s brazen lie, without taking the name of China, that “no one has intruded on Indian soil, nor is any one …
Across the world—from Britain to Israel, Chile to Bolivia, Hungary to Philippines—political analysts and academics are horrified at the powers elected leaders are accumulating under the cover of #COVID to …
Today’s front pages of newspapers is, as always, a showcase of the sublime to the mundane. For newspapers like The Telegraph, Atal Bihari Vajpayee‘s death is a good occasion to …
How India’s major newspapers covered the RBI annual report which fully and finally put the seal of “failure” on the Narendra Modi government’s ill-advised, poorly thought-through, horribly implemented ego exercise …
As the epicentre of illegal mining that has already claimed a chief minister’s scalp, it was just a matter of time before the media in Karnataka too got embroiled in …
Sanjaya Baru, editor of Business Standard and former media advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, delivered the second H.Y. Sharada Prasad memorial lecture on media, business and government at the …
Bill the bard, put it better, of course: “‘Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.” Aakar Patel is no Shakespeare, but he makes a similar point: Indian media …
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Can a nearly spotless journalistic career of 45 years—30 of those for one of the most trusted broadcasters in the world—be tainted, tarbrushed and tarnished …
Former Union minister and Congressman turned BJP man, Arun Nehru, in Deccan Chronicle: “The winners in the 2009 elections will be those who are able to maintain or improve upon …
Arun Nehru in Deccan Chronicle: “The situation is very complicated for all three formations (United Progressive Alliance, National Democratic Alliance and the Third Front) and few can predict today the …
Arun Nehru in Deccan Chronicle: “All political parties and important leaders play the minority/majority card and the interlinked issue of security…. “I don’t believe in the blame game but it …
The benefit of the wisdom of extremely scientifically conducted opinion polls and exit polls has been cruelly deprived to the aam admi and aurat of Bharat. Therefore, “We, the People” …
Arun Nehru‘s latest back-of-the-envelope prediction, published in Deccan Chronicle, still continues to put the Congress-led UPA ahead of the BJP-led NDA, although both alliance will end up well short of …
Both the UPA and the NDA have seen parties exiting their ranks. The Third Front seems to be chugging along nicely, and smaller micro-alliances have cropped up. Yet, Congress man …
The Congress is in the middle of a blazing row with Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s RJD over seat sharing. The BJP, deserted by the Biju Janata Dal, is in the middle …
Congressman turned BJP man, Arun Nehru‘s latest back-of-the-envelope prediction in Deccan Chronicle for the 2009 general elections (part one here, part two here) continues to show a 15-seat advantage for …
The decision of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to call off its ten-year-old alliance with the BJP over seat-sharing in Orissa in the coming general elections throws a major spanner …
The beauty of the verdict of the 2004 general elections was that it rendered the business of predicting future outcomes a tricky, even foolhardy, exercise to undertake, given the manner …
A requiem for Indian business journalism, in the delightfully breathless style of Juan Antonio Giner, founder-director, Innovation International Media: ‘Satyam’, meaning truth. India’s fourth largest software services provider. The darling …
RAMYA KRISHNAMURTHY writes from Bangalore: Deccan Chronicle, the Hyderabad-based group that is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, has just launched its Bangalore edition. Hoardings like these that greeted Bangaloreans …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I saw the Ace Political Expert (APE) at the entrance of the Press Club. Since APE is in great demand in the election season and hard to …
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: “Unprecedented” is the most misused and abused word in Indian journalism. Anything—almost everything—that the desk couldn’t check if it had happened before, is effortlessly slapped …
THEJAS H.K. writes from Madras: There was a time not too long ago when I used to walk a couple of miles to get a copy of The Hindu in …
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Mubhashar Jawed Akbar, the wordsmith who once cheekily suggested that Bombay should establish diplomatic relations with the rest of India, has been eased out …
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