The “India Story” is at once simple and complex. On the one hand, between a third and half of the country survives on less than a dollar a day; on the other hand, it boasts of the third most number of dollar-millionaires. On the one hand, female foeticide as a result of sex determination is…
Daily Archives: 8 December 2007
How Narendra Modi has bred media cynicism
Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi‘s image—whom The Economist this week called a “disgrace”—has been built on the rapid economic development of his State, coupled with his obscene demonisation of the “other” and a distrust of all media that doesn’t support his State-sponsored pogrom of 2002. Modi walks out of television interviews when questioned about the…
Amitabh Bachchan’s advice to a media CEO
Indian cinema’s biggest star—the BBC’s star of the millennium—Amitabh Bachchan has had a more-hate-than-love relationship with the media, except when the demands of public relations on the eve of a movie release weighed heavy on him. But in a surprising intervention, Bachchan has spoken out in favour of the beleaguered CEO of Bombay’s Afternoon Despatch…
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