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 …
Thanks to Lord Ganesh, most South Indians didn’t receive their newspapers today. No worries. Here are nine news stories from newspapers which didn’t have a holiday. *** 1. PROSECUTION WITNESS …
In the latest issue of Open magazine, Jatin Gandhi lays his hand on a “Request for Proposal” (RFP) document of the Gujarat government that shows how “almost every day, the …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: According to a statement by an official of United Nations children’s emergency fund, in April 2011, the Karnataka government prudishly turned down a UNICEF proposal to impart …
The ghastly ritual of Madae Snana at the State-run Kukke Subramanya temple—which entails members of the Malekudiya community (among others) rolling over plantain leaves of leftover food of Brahmins for wish-fulfillment—has pitted progressives …
Aditya Sinha, editor-in-chief of the Bombay newspaper DNA, in his weekly column: “This week’s court conviction of 31 people for crimes including murder during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat …
There has been plenty of buzz in recent days that the Congress-led UPA government has quietly begun hitting back at the media for the manner in which it has exposed …
We live in an era of unabashed competitive communalism. Behind every terror attack, Hindutva hit squads and “Internet Hindus” find the ghosts and stick figures of the Indian Mujahideen or …
The diagnosis of the UPA’s chronic illness since the 2009 polls has been markedly conventional. Everybody agrees that prime minister Manmohan Singh has messed up big-time, and that there has …
VINUTHA MALLYA writes from Ahmedabad: The ban masters are back in business. And as usual, vibrant Gujarat leads the way, but this time the Centre is not too far behind. …
The effusive tributes that have followed the passing away of Anant Pai, the Karkala-born creator of Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) and Tinkle, shows the hold that the comics and the …
In this era of mercenary managers and predatory propreitors, brave is the editor who can actually stick his neck out—at least in public—and vouch for the virginity of his product. …
In November 2007, the US embassy in Delhi sent a cable to Washington, which was revealed later by Wikileaks. It said, among other things, “Mrs (Sonia) Gandhi never misses an …
As the confessions of “Swami” Aseemanand, outed by Ashesh Khetan of Tehelka magazine, stick the terror label firmly on the tilak-stained foreheads of the Hindu lunatic fringe, calls to ban …
We live in a strange, revisionist era. Nothing is what it seems, at least not for more than a few blinks. For instance, the much-ballyhooed Pokhran II tests under Vajpayee‘s …
It’s raining scams here, there, everywhere. A. Raja and 2G, Suresh Kalmadi and CWG, Ashok Chavan and B.S. Yediyurappa and land allotment, Lalit Modi and IPL, Vikram Akula and microfinance, …
Editorial in The Hindu: “In his classic defence of free speech, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill laid down what is known as the ‘harm principle.’ It postulates that the only …
It’s a straightforward story. There are plenty of hungry people in “India Starving”. And there is plenty of foodgrains going waste in “India Rotting”. Give it to the needy for …
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express: “The scandal of Indian politics is not simply that the prime minister is politically weak; it is that those who are politically strong …
The Karnataka BJP’s response to Hartalu Halappa‘s kamakanda, as the TV channels call it, is only the latest example that God’s Own Party with a Difference is joined at the …
The minister of state for external affairs, “Row Bahadur” Shashi Tharoor, often uses the Princess Diana analogy to explain globalisation to the great unwashed: An English princess with a Welsh …
The inclusion of Ranganath Vinay Kumar in the Indian squad for the Twenty20 World Cup is much deserved, statistically speaking. But it is also nothing short of seismic, sociologically speaking. …
The Congress-led UPA government has moved a bill allowing foreign universities to set up shop in India. The entry norms specify a minimum corpus of Rs 50 crore, regulation (but …
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao, Junior, in DNA: “The policy of quotas and reservations in India does not promote the right to equality as much as it enhances the power of the …
1) A superhit film* centred around 9/11. 2) Distributed by Hollywood biggie, Fox Searchlight. 3) A protagonist with Asperger’s Syndrome. 4) A mainstream film starring a Muslim which tackles anti-Islamic …
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