TV’s ‘now what’ moment

Tuesday 26 May '09

What will news do now that all drama has been wrung out from cricket and elections?

What a difference a day made

Wednesday 20 May '09

This election, TV was groping in the dark — but it was fun anyway

The countdown to counting

Tuesday 12 May '09

Well, everybody’s doing it, so why don’t we? In the silly season of numerology, who has the numbers?

The zoozoo takes it all

Tuesday 5 May '09

Don’t you love the friendly fluid creatures that liven up the IPL?

Home and the electronic hearth

Tuesday 28 April '09

It’s 4 pm on Sunday, and the IPL encounter between Delhi Daredevils and Bangalore Royal Challengers has just begun when a young man throws...

The republic of television

Tuesday 21 April '09

IPL or election, TV treats everybody the same

Brothers for Real

Sunday 19 April '09

They’ve gone from being documentary filmmakers to owners of a general entertainment channel. Now, Nikhil and Niret Alva want to create a ‘new kind’ of television

Kid fights and child marriages

Tuesday 14 April '09

Close your eyes. Relax the mind; allow the images of the election campaign you have seen on television, to float freely into the blackness behind your eyelids.

Maa behenji insults

Tuesday 7 April '09

Also, American TV just doesn’t have the colourful imagination of our TV news

The republic of television

Tuesday 31 March '09

This election is scripted and directed for TV

Dope springs eternal

Tuesday 24 March '09

On TV, anticipation and chatter drowns out the actual news event

A tale of two TV worlds

Tuesday 17 March '09

As politicians and anchors bloviate on the elections, entertainment serials deal in hard truths

Keeping it real

Tuesday 10 March '09

The porous membrane that separates truth and illusion

Signboards of our times

Tuesday 3 March '09

Even the commercial break is downbeat these days

Slumdog set to sweep Academy Awards?

Sunday 22 February '09

You don't need exceptional intelligence or foresight to conclude that Slumdog Millionaire should be the best picture at the Academy Awards...

The critic who suffered no fools

Saturday 21 February '09

Amita Malik, one of the most prolific, outspoken and highly respected journalists of her time, passed away on February 20 after a brief illness.

All you need is love

Tuesday 17 February '09

You’d agree there must be some respect for language. So when the commentator exclaimed...

Uh oh, we’re in trouble

Tuesday 10 February '09

Women have a hard enough time as is; TV magnifies those woes

Lifestyle licks life

Tuesday 3 February '09

Whatever goes on in the global economy, lifestyle channels live in la-la land

The anatomy lesson

Tuesday 27 January '09

TV this week was torn between the big O and matters of the heart

Goodbye to all that

Tuesday 20 January '09

George Bush is ready for his close up on CNN, and Indian news is hot and bothered about ‘Slumdog Millionaire’

Brothers grim

Wednesday 14 January '09

First there was Raghu. Bald, bespectacled, bearded with half a French beard.

The use of the news

Tuesday 13 January '09

Hindi news channels veer between the absurd and the practical

Brothers grim

Monday 12 January '09

First there was Raghu. Bald, bespectacled, bearded with half a French beard. He was, and still is, rude to the point of being downright crude...

Brothers grim

Saturday 10 January '09

First there was Raghu. Bald, bespectacled, bearded with half a French beard. He was, and still is, rude to the point of being downright crude...