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Media Watch Archive
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Confounding the Language
Posted on July 1, 2005 | No CommentsVia Fresh Bilge, here’s a piece which amusingly lists the euphemisms–or political correctness–current today. Tweet -
Nazi Priestess and the D Family
Posted on June 28, 2005 | No CommentsI found two interesting reads in Outlook: Arun Jaitley remembers the Nazi Priestess Amir Mir reports the match fixed between Mr. Dawood Ibrahim’s daughter and Mr. Javed Miandad’s son. Tweet -
Denigrating Indian Culture: Concluding Thoughts
Posted on June 22, 2005 | 4 CommentsRead the previous parts: 1, 2, 3, 4 (i & ii) This is the closing post on the Karnad series. I’ll try and jot my general and somewhat, sweeping observations about various facets of Karnad: as a playwright, actor, and “activist.” Tweet -
Preparing the Ground for Sonia
Posted on May 12, 2005 | 4 CommentsThe front page of (the online edition) of today’s Indian Express can more appropriately be called Sonia Special. They chose it to caption Rule Sonia! Is India xenophobic? The heading gives away quite a bit. India is xenophobic because it didn’t allow Sonia to adorn... -
Supporting Communist Despotism
Posted on May 6, 2005 | 12 CommentsThe Resident Idiot is back. His conspicuous, but revealing silence when the neighbourhood tyrant visited us recently is all the more obvious when he brands King Gyanendra a despot. But such self-righteousness is not new to this propaganda-peddler. Nor is his blatant lying new. First,... -
After George it’s Shourie
Posted on May 5, 2005 | 1 CommentIt is payback time. After the Congress realized that it was a mistake to let George Fernandes go scot free, and renewed its attack, aided as it is by an ever-friendly media, it has now aimed its guns at Arun Shourie. The former minister’s “crime”... -
Central Tyranny by another Name
Posted on April 26, 2005 | 4 CommentsThe Acorn briefly weighs the proposed Communal Violence Suppression bill that the Congress mouthpiece, Indian Express, published on April 23. His byline reads, Do it, but do it without the army. I contend that while this is a sensible stand, it is more appropriate to... -
Raman has Spunk
Posted on April 12, 2005 | No CommentsMore light on the Modi affair, courtesy B Raman, known for penning thoughtful analyses on defence and foreign policy issues. While JK speculated–and it’s not difficult to guess either–that some big time lobbying by interested parties helped the visa revocation, Raman substantiates it with real... -
The Mullah of JNU Speaks…
Posted on April 5, 2005 | 2 CommentsFrom one secular fundamentalist to another: from Shekar Gupta to Purushottam Agarwal (?). A certain Purushottam Agarwal, who teaches at the Mosque of JNU has taken it upon himself to unlayer the multi-layered issue of the Modi visa denial episode. So he begins with a... -
Maa I found another House Nigger!
Posted on March 31, 2005 | No CommentsJust when I thought the Pseudo secularists had gone into an extended hibernation, out comes one. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Pamela Philipose. In a truly scintillating article, she manages to confound the readers so well that I’m sure she’s a Phd from the University of... -
Selective Criticism
Posted on March 29, 2005 | No CommentsDilip D’Souza urges us not to find national insult in a rejected visa. And I have to give it to him. For cleverness. In applying selective criticism. You know the barrel of ideas is at its bottom-scraping emptiest when you start hearing the hollow comparisons... -
The Slimes Turns Dictator
Posted on March 21, 2005 | 3 CommentsIntroduction to Media Smut Heralding the dumbing down of the Indian media in general has yielded a rich harvest to the Slimes of India; the infamous City Supplement, a euphemism for soft porn was the trendsetter. It is a tribute of sorts to the Slimes’...