Chota Baba Is Watching You
Stasi, Gestapo, Big Brother. Get with the Newspeak. There’s a new desi Ministry of Truth in town.
Agent Vinod
Three Vinods, always on TV, all agents. Which one would you want on your team?
A Questionable Headline?
The media seems to be focusing less on rhetoric and more on rhetorical questions.
Chasing The Dragon
What keeps us snorting the thin line between objectivity and subjectivity which TV debates offer?
Yes, I watch television debates. I am addicted to them. I have tried to quit many times. The last sentence is self-explanatory. It is now late afternoon.
… Read moreThree Wise Words
Come 10:31pm all that matters is who slapped who, who kissed who and who was slapped because of the kiss.
Mutually Exclusive
The downfall of a great scoop is that by its very nature it can never remain ‘exclusive’ to the channel that breaks it
Norwegian Woods
I’ve been hood-winked and double-crossed, and everything short of a rath yatra from Somnath to Oslo was accomplished.
Cover-up
Hero or villain? Fabulist or realist? Well, what is he? He must be something as he’s on the cover of TIME.
Drop the Anchor
Television sets, not dams or IITs, are the new temples of modern India and the anchors their resident gods and goddesses.
Passing Through A Phase – Lessons And Reflections From Awadh
It’s a beautiful word, layered and more complex than you might think. It invokes nostalgia, recollects a bit of history.
The Sound of Music
“What synchronisation!” I thought, “Some unemployed FTII graduate has spent an entire afternoon on this.”
Darth Veda
Two constants in our digital world: A Nigerian promising money in our account. An NRI extolling the achievements of our forefathers.