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How Ananth Kumar danced to Niira Radia’s tunes
Every good scandal deserves to be immortalised between covers, and Niira Radia, the star of the 2G spectrum allocation scam, gets her due through a new book, “Close encounters with …
How does a ‘journalist’ offer a Rs 2 crore bribe?
The stereotypical image of the Indian journalist is of a lean, mean, hungry-looking, bespectacled jholawala, with a bag slung around his scrawny neck. But that’s just for public consumption. In …
‘Indians trust magazines* more than newspapers’
Trust in the Indian media is down sharply by 15 percentage points over the last two years. One out of every two Indians distrusts what they read, see, and listen …
An open application letter to Prannoy Roy, NDTV
Respected Dr Roy, I am writing to apply for the post of Group Editor, English News, NDTV. I am a journalist with 26 years’ experience. Throughout my career I have …
Now, Greenpeace has a question for Ratan Tata
Grandstanding on ethics and principles is a perilous path to take for Indian businessmen—even for a corporate biggie with the kind of image as the House of Tatas. Ratan Tata …
Ratan Tata’s open letter to Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Generally speaking, Indian business is a nice, cosy club of stuffed shirts and suspenders. There are a set of rules and everyone plays along happily. No one ever says anything …
Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s open letter to Ratan Tata
In the kerfuffle over the Niira Radia tapes in the 2g spectrum allocation scam, the sanctimonious outpourings of Ratan Tata have been little short of breathtaking: speaking of a bribe …
Which is India’s most credible media outlet?
With a cloud of suspicion hovering over the credibility of the bold-faced names of Indian media following the Niira Radia tapes—and institutional disasters such as paid news, private treaties, medianet …
Is it time to think of a new kind of government?
Ashok V. Desai in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “The British invented, and gave to India, a bureaucracy that was selected on merit, paid well enough not to have to be corrupt, …
One question I’m dying to ask Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt, the “massively influential but ethically embattled TV news anchor” of NDTV 24×7, is subjecting herself to a massively advertised, pre-recorded public inquisition with four carefully chosen peers to …
Has Ratan Tata ruined the Tata brand image?
Although it has a finger in every pie, the Tata group has enjoyed a sterling reputation as a cut above the rest. Unlike the Ambanis and Birlas and everybody else, …
BARKHA DUTT on the allegations against her
After lying low for a week following the Outlook* and Open magazine cover stories on her conversations with the lobbyist Niira Radia, the NDTV anchor Barkha Dutt has provided her …
CHURUMURI POLL: Do you trust the media?
As if all the scams involving the legislature, executive and the judiciary weren’t enough, a big blow has been struck against the so-called fourth estate—the media—with tapped conversations allegedly revealing …