The demise of the editorial page as the voice and conscience of a newspaper is much lamented by the thinking class. But we in the journalism business have ourselves to …
The 2013 Indian Readership Survey left almost every newspaper publisher dissatisfied, and 18 groups joined hands to point fingers at the “shocking anomalies, which defy logic and commonsense“. But as …
On October 5, The New York Times ran a scathing investigation of powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, revealing him as a sexual predator who had harassed actresses and employees over a period …
At 90, Nayantara Sahgal remains a shining light on India’s intellectual firmament: clear, cogent, strong, resolute and fiercely independent. In 2014, Sahgal—Vijayalakshmi Pandit‘s daughter and Jawaharlal Nehru‘s niece—returned the Sahitya Akademi award …
Harish Khare is easily among India’s preeminent political journalists, someone who knows both politics and journalism. Doctorate from the Deendayal Upadhyay Institute for International Research and Studies, also known as Yale, …
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 …
For a party which demanded Manmohan Singh‘s resignation every hour of the day, for a party which sent a Union minister to wail about the killings of RSS workers in …
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 …
The stand-out aspect of the ongoing bigotry and hatred of the white supremacists in America is the response of its thought leaders: in the arts and in business in particular, …
As India and Pakistan trudge towards the 70th anniversary of their creation, the comparisons are beginning to flow on how well (or badly) the two countries have done vis-a-vis each …
Newspapers are supposedly going out of fashion as TV, internet, and the mobile phone become the weapons of mass distraction. Readers are supposedly not reading “boring” editorials. But these editorials …
Harish Khare in The Tribune: “On August 5, an election was held to decide the new occupant of 6 Maulana Azad Road in New Delhi. This house is the designated …
Is it a good thing that the Supreme Court of India has not announced clearcut guidelines for media coverage of court cases? Or has it opened the floodgates by introducing …
Justice P.D. Dinakaran, the chief justice of the Karnataka High Court, is in the middle of a blazing legal row. The lead story of The Hindu reports that Justice Dinakaran, …
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and SHARANYA KANVILKAR in Bombay write: The stunning defeat of the BJP in the general elections has been dissected so many times and by so …
At a little past 11.30 pm last Saturday, an SMS came from Sudheendra Murali, a friend in Bangalore: “Kargil Forgotten.” To a South Indian with not a single member of the …
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