Feb 14 2011
A lot has been written, discussed and debated on the conviction and the subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen on charges of sedition. The case got such attention that vigils and protests were held demanding his release even in...
Feb 9 2011
The second half of 2010 saw some great online debates, fights and rants on an individual’s right of expression and limits to it, much fueled by Arundhati Roy’s controversial essay in Outlook on the Maoist insurgents followed by her even more...
Feb 9 2011
Recently, the Supreme Court of India dismissed Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea that the life term awarded to Dara Singh for leading a mob that burnt alive Australian Christian missionary Dr Graham Staines (58) and his two sons Philip (10)...
Jun 10 2010
It sounds like the opening to a television forensics drama. On a sunny September day in 1991, a German couple hiking through the Alps make a gruesome discovery.
Jun 3 2010
This is the storyboard that you would definitely have heard. What perhaps you will not hear, at least not so readily, is that the humanitarian flotilla was the brainchild of an organization called IHH which has been linked to dispatching Jihadi fighters...
Apr 12 2010
The 50-minute-long Dr Singh-Obama meeting seemed like an interaction between a diligent student and an endearing professor. Aziz Haniffa captures the mood vividly.
Mar 21 2010
My first memories of the Volga bar-cum-restaurant goes back to 1998 when I came here as a student from Bangalore. I was taking a stroll in the Inner Circle of Connaught Place (CP) when the name of the Russian river caught my eye.
Mar 12 2010
A new TV campaign for the ‘Mahsaney Kimat Hinam’ supermarket chain shows actors wearing wigs and hats and carrying tennis rackets as they make their way through store aisles.
Mar 9 2010
This is a pictorial post. Won’t write much. Just see the image below. Believe it or not, this is the ‘Contact’ page of the Air India Website. Check the graphics. Four guys sky diving holding hands! Fly Air India, but don’t...
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Mar 8 2010
What happens to those media men forming public opinion and cry for justice for the common citizen who suddenly develop cold feet when it comes to matching their words, err... tweets/blog posts/forum discussions with what they actually carry out on TV?