October 31, 2007 – 3:46 pm
Hindustan Times brags about the "huge response" it received on a series it published. Entitled the New Muslim, the series is a series of profiles about ordinary Muslims who it says, "are proud of being Muslims, and do not hesitate to go back their religion to get ahead in life, make money, get educated and [...]
October 30, 2007 – 5:20 pm
The political circus in Karnataka has come a full, brazen circle. Afraid of facing elections, Deve Gowda Inc a.k.a Janata Dal (Secular) has finally fallen at the BJP’s feet. A honourable option would’ve been to honour the commitment they had made earlier.
This shamelessness is routine but our secular intellectuals need to have their share. [...]
October 28, 2007 – 4:16 pm
A brief roundup of different edits featured today on the latest Tehelka sting reveals several interesting but stale findings about the Indian media.
Swapan Dasgupta nails it down perfectly in this article (reproduced from the Pioneer in full below).
The [Tehelka] reporter Ashis Khetan quite openly admits that he was initially despatched to Gujarat to do “a [...]
October 26, 2007 – 4:14 pm
One of my pet Kannada proverbs goes something like this: you act like I’ve hit you and I’ll pretend I’m weeping. After the Paper of the Bold and the Fearless published the damning Gujarat revelations at a rather opportune time, the Congress party has lost no time in reacting to it.
The Congress was cautious in [...]
October 25, 2007 – 10:42 pm
A few days ago, the Election Commission announced the dates for the upcoming Gujarat polls.
Just today, the Fearless People’s Paper blows the lid off the horrid Gujarat carnage bringing us all kinds of turbid inside information. It calls it the most important story of our time.
Wonder what they were doing till now…Fie on me if [...]
October 25, 2007 – 2:23 pm
Anuradha Dutt has a superb piece about Bobby Jindal, the recently-elected governor of Louisiana. Reproducing the piece here in full.
There’s no reason Indians should feel proud over his election. As the article rightly says, it means nothing to India.
October 22, 2007 – 2:54 pm
Barbar Indian says India needs a Right wing TV channel in the context of Narendra Modi walking out of Karan Thapar’s show. I’ve mentioned several times that the concept of "right wing" is both inappropriate and misleading in the Indian context. What I would rather advocate is an entirely unbiased media house.
October 19, 2007 – 7:09 pm
Long ago, I wrote that our lamb-like gentle Puppet Prime Minister had roared after he had been sufficiently cornered by the Opposition.
Now he roars again. In style. And joins the stellar galaxy of politicians, intellectuals, liberals, socialists, communists and human rights activists who had waxed articulately on the Gujarat riots. But there’s a crucial [...]
October 19, 2007 – 6:49 pm
The Congress party has bettered its own record.
A few months ago, the "honourable" Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, YSR made some–this is mildly putting it–uncharitable remarks against his bete noire, Chandrababu Naidu.
Now, it looks like a certain B.K. Hari Prasad has taken special lessons from the Chief Minister. Here’s the choicest venom he spews [...]
October 17, 2007 – 1:25 am
This post is partly a response to several comments I received on my posts related to the Ram Sethu project. The greater part, however, is my education, an attempt to trace the Rama (and Ramayana) consciousness in Tamil Nadu.
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Hindustan Times brags about the "huge response" it received on a series it published. Entitled the New Muslim, the series is a series of profiles about ordinary Muslims who it says, "are proud of being Muslims, and do not hesitate to go back their religion to get ahead in life, make money, get educated and [...]