
Saubhik Chakrabarti
The Indian Express Group

Saturday 21 November '09
Unusually but, and I hope you agree with me, justifiably, this edition of the column shifts its focus beyond what was on news TV.Saturday 21 November '09
You don’t have to agree with everything the author argues (this reviewer has issues with the larger sociological arguments that form the second half of this book)...Sunday
15 November '09Count your liver(s), watch the birds....Monday
9 November '09China-beats-India is one of the standard product features in the crowded market for global studies. But there’s an exception: one that has counter-intuitive lessons for both free market wallahs and market sceptics.Saturday
7 November '09Why secular me was driven to scream...Saturday
31 October '09Mao TV. Actually, MoU TV. For days now, news TV has been bringing to us long conversations on Maoists with important people who have...Tuesday
27 October '09Why Maoists appear so potent when confronting the state in BengalSaturday
24 October '09Politicians on the panel....Saturday
17 October '09Happy Diwali news TV....Saturday
10 October '09But, hey, at least capitalism does.....Saturday
3 October '09Imperialist-globalisation — I love this term. I love it even more when I hear it on news TV, because news TV panel discussions sometimes operate on a beautiful...Friday
2 October '09China’s ruling class — communists who are celebrating 60 years of absolute power with a panache that comes from presiding over an almost superpower...Friday
25 September '09China’s army, US GDP, India's history....Tuesday
22 September '09America consumes less, exports more. China consumes more, exports less. The US dollar smoothly transits from being a...Saturday
19 September '09Ties, three-wheelers and terrorists....Saturday
12 September '09Why you can’t talk bad of news TV....Saturday
5 September '0924x7 News TV when there’s no news....Saturday
15 August '09On your screens, a battle between imperative and instinctSaturday
8 August '09Please speak louder, said one of the two doctors on the panel of CNN-IBN’s Face the Nation, to the show’s anchor.Saturday
29 August '09Four ideas for BJP to increase its TRP...Thursday
13 August '09Why agriculture is a victim of urban selfishness and political correctness....Saturday
25 July '09The sun, the moon, the earth and me, with news TV....Saturday
18 July '09A Manish Tewari moment in news TV fragmentsMonday
13 July '09We think we know where Barack Obama was looking the end of L’Aquila G8+5+4 summit. But where was India looking throughout the summit?Saturday
11 July '09Making a substantive point on a news TV discussion may be among the toughest jobs in modern economies and I have often wondered whether the ones..