Who wants to buy a cricketer?

Tuesday 26 February '08

Christie’s, hammer your head. Or else, employ Lalit Modi as your auction salesman.

What the world is reading

Monday 25 February '08

Pakistan, Kosovo and Castro deflected attention from the American Presidential elections but with Obama surging ahead after 11 consecutive primary victories...

The secret realm of business TV

Tuesday 19 February '08

The Sensex had a nervous breakdown, the stock market lost control of its sensex...

What the world is reading

Monday 18 February '08

The periodical world is most concerned with today’s elections in Pakistan. “Pakistan needs more than elections.

Three rules of the TV game

Tuesday 12 February '08

Let’s play rules. The first rule of the game: no news report is breaking news if it has already been broken to bits on other news channels.

WHAT THE WORLD IS READING

Monday 11 February '08

Not unexpectedly after Super Tuesday, the world press is fascinated by the US presidential campaign.

Only 20 minutes

Tuesday 5 February '08

Last week, we saw why Twenty20 can be reduced to 20. Minutes. When India went into bat...

What the world is reading

Monday 4 February '08

Last week, periodicals predicted that China and India would withstand the worldwide market crash. They hadn’t bargained for the weather.

Saroj can

Tuesday 29 January '08

Imagine, we are family. Imagine, it’s all about loving your family.

It’s a big blog world

Tuesday 22 January '08

Let’s be nice, today. First to We the People (NDTV 24x7). This Sunday was Bharat Ratna day...

The writing on the screen

Tuesday 15 January '08

Here are some delectable moments from last week’s television...

Word play

Tuesday 8 January '08

Black Sunday and news channels saw red. Or rather the tricolour.

TV without a K

Friday 4 January '08

2008. Time to place a huge advertisement in the Wanted column: Desperately seeking a new television vision. Those with no foresight need not apply.

Everywhere a Shah Rukh

Tuesday 1 January '08

And the news from the news channels is: Hindi khabarnamas and English news channels have had an amicable divorce.

Countdown to Modi

Tuesday 25 December '07

The Master Hero’, in Haren Pathak’s worshipful words, had won.

Till song’s end

Tuesday 18 December '07

As the new serials look worn out, stale and oh so generation past, as the comedies raise fewer laughs than the serials...

A tale of two Gujarats

Tuesday 11 December '07

It is assumed Narendra Modi will win. Every opinion poll, every opinion without a poll, says so...

Starring Pranab Mukherjee

Tuesday 4 December '07

Jaya Bachchan was hot too. With indignation. She flounced, she bounced up and down basket ball style...

Songs sung blue

Tuesday 27 November '07

It was very different this time. This time, we had a ringside view. This time, Nawaz Sharif made a triumphant return...

But will we watch?

Tuesday 20 November '07

Who ever dreamt that Ekta Kapoor would forsake the high and mighty Viranis, Aggarwals and Basus, descend to earth...

Politicians who court the blackout

Saturday 17 November '07

They just don’t get it, do they? To ban, black out or to censor, is to travel down a road that full-stops at a dead end...

No news please, it’s Diwali

Tuesday 13 November '07

On the left hand side of your TV screen, Saif Ali Khan in a scruffy beard holds or doesn’t hold but is about to hold...

Switching on an emergency

Tuesday 6 November '07

It happened in the USSR, it’s been happening in Pakistan all year. TV news is fighting for liberty.

Anchor away

Tuesday 30 October '07

Right. Now hear this: to learn everything you always already knew about anything, just watch TV news. On Diwali learn...

Saif and the communists

Tuesday 23 October '07

Neo Sports has some very good ideas; then again, it has some very poor ones. The good it did was hiring Murali Kartik...