Articles | Anand Ranganathan

24 Jul 13

Who’s The Real Fascist?

Are Gujaratis communal, bigoted, fascist merchants of death – as some opinion-makers suggest?

18 Jul 13

The Unsinkable Ship of Theseus

A review & a conversation with Kiran Rao.

The indications aren’t all that good. Flowing tresses and wild beards and Kissinger specs and Fabindia kurtas, and when Arundhati Roy saunters in I have to pinch my upper arm to make sure this isn’t an andolan or a Yojana Bhawan gherao.

15 Jul 13

Canadian Bacon Not Gujju Fafda

An article on Canada. Not Gujarat. Or Modi. Just Canada. Not NaMo.

07 Jul 13

Mandela: Never Let Him Go

Stone-breaker, vegetable-grower and the conscience of mankind.

04 Jul 13

All Rise

The inside story of how and where the Ishrat Jahan case was actually tried – and it’s not where you think.

28 Jun 13

Bekhabar’s Crossword # 1

Nidhi Razdan, the secret society of like-minded journalists & a crossword Dan Brown would kill for.

18 Jun 13

The Last Mogul

Has NDTV turned into a government ministry – employing hundreds but making little profit and no impact?

13 Jun 13

Rajdeep Sardesai’s Doodles

A dekko at what Rajdeep Sardesai doodles during edit meetings at the PMO.

07 Jun 13

Death by Another Name

Time to fix something besides cricket – how about the state of public healthcare in India.

31 May 13

Tuberculosis and the Scientist

The third and final part of our trilogy on Tuberculosis – the scourge and solutions

28 May 13

Tuberculosis & The Journalist

Why do so few articles on tuberculosis appear in our mainstream media?

24 May 13

Tuberculosis – Still A Scourge

Two Indians die of TB every three minutes. Why are 330,000 Indians dying from a disease that is completely curable?

Part 1 of a three-part essay on Tuberculosis. The Doctor.

There was a time when our heroes died of tuberculosis.

Midway through the melodrama the doctor would bite on his pipe and disclose hesitantly to the main lead that yes, what he feared was true: it is tuberculosis.

20 May 13