Capitalism for kisan

Thursday 13 August '09

Why agriculture is a victim of urban selfishness and political correctness....

The big light bulb and a philosophy of life

Saturday 25 July '09

The sun, the moon, the earth and me, with news TV....

Guys, don’t erupt

Saturday 18 July '09

A Manish Tewari moment in news TV fragments

Emission impossible?

Monday 13 July '09

We 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?

Economists and CEOs on news TV

Saturday 11 July '09

Making 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..

While waiting for Big B or small b

Friday 3 July '09

As the Delhi High Court handed down its Section 377 verdict I knew three things were important.

Anchors and four curious cases

Friday 26 June '09

BBC is a good place to turn to if you want news TV interpretation of death of icons.

Demons and dark side

Saturday 20 June '09

Debating Bollywood, Bengal and Iran

Machine, Mamata, Maoists

Friday 19 June '09

The law should eventually be restored in Lalgarh. But the question it poses for Bengal is trickier.

Outside Delhi, without English

Saturday 13 June '09

A multilingual democracy such as ours is a wonderful thing, of course. But it can be a bit restrictive at times.

Outside Delhi, without English

Saturday 13 June '09

A multilingual democracy such as ours is a wonderful thing, of course. But it can be a bit restrictive at times.

The factory factor

Wednesday 10 June '09

UPA-II’s first policy victory has already happened. It has defeated cynicism. The president’s address to Parliament...

Lalit Modi, Obama and Australia

Saturday 6 June '09

One of them would be that Barack Obama didn’t watch NDTV 24x7 interviewing Lalit Modi.

Some out of box thinking, please?

Saturday 30 May '09

Politics is settling down. So will news television. There will be controversies, silly and otherwise...

The ‘others’ in news TV

Saturday 23 May '09

‘Others’: a minefield of a word. Anthropologists, sociologists, cultural studies theorists and, er, others in social science disciplines...

Floating with anchors

Tuesday 19 May '09

Sober, flagging, charged up and overcharged

My pseudo-elitist fantasy

Saturday 9 May '09

Next Saturday, thanks to the people of India, TV news will be compelling viewing, even allowing for the anchor/panelist...

Bear With Little Financial Brain

Sunday 10 May '09

William Cohan’s book on the fall of Bear Stearns is hugely important for everyone who retains faith in the free market

Has Beeb taken on more than it can chew?

Saturday 2 May '09

BBC can be precious some times — ‘gunmen’ in Mumbai on 26/11; the whole world was calling them terrorists.

Bank on the market

Tuesday 28 April '09

Tucked away in RBI’s six-volume report on Indian banking is the observation that wondrous moderation applies to pay scales of India’s public sector bankers.

News TV’s turning points

Saturday 25 April '09

What are elections without free speech? So, let’s celebrate the political analysis of the NDTV panelist...

Groundhog evening & the Frequent Five

Saturday 18 April '09

After weeks of election talk TV, last evening could have been fun.

Lesson from news shoenami

Saturday 11 April '09

The evening of the day of the shoe, CNN-IBN’s 10 pm prime time show featured the following on-screen captions: ‘Shoecide attack..

Eye on city middle-class, BJP sees light in India Dimming

Saturday 4 April '09

In 2004, the NDA was cohesive, the BJP didn’t have its own manifesto, the economy was in an upswing, the middle class consumer.....

How to digest TV election news

Saturday 4 April '09

Try my recipe on preparing a digestible dish of TV election news.