Dam the Media – Give Them Land in New Harsud!
Before the ‘Battle for Truth’, Reveal Your Assets, Honourable Men and Women of the Media Today’s Indian Express carries Medha Patkar’s response to a long continuing rant by the paper on a series of...
View ArticleThe (‘Quotation’) Gangs of Kerala
The media in Kerala is in a tizzy these days over ‘quotation’ gangs and their influence on everyday life. Like evil spirits dancing upon the bodies of fallen heroes in abandoned epic battle-fields,...
View ArticleAt the Risk of Heresy: Why I am not Celebrating with Anna Hazare
Allow me to pick and choose my revolutions. I will not be celebrating at Jantar Mantar tonight. At the risk of heresy, let me express my profound unease at the crescendo of euphoria surrounding the...
View ArticleThe Ghost of the Middle Ground
Uncertainty, Ambiguity and the Media Response to Efforts to Secure a Commutation of the Death Penalty for Mohammad Afzal Guru and An Enquiry into the Events of December 13 Shuddhabrata Sengupta,...
View ArticleSo Was it an ABVP/ RSS Game – Who Shouted ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ in JNU?
While some television channels, through a combination of unethical playing to the gallery (and to the Modi regime), have portrayed ‘JNU students’ as antinational Leftists, Pakistani agents etc, a video...
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