Mark Ames, the expat American editor of eXiled (“Mankind’s only alternative since 1997”), whose blog speculation on an Ambani hand in the helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy caused rioters to attack Reliance properties in that State last wek, is baffled by the “class war” that has broken out in…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Where’s your sense of humour, paper asks Aussies
The editor of the Indian newspaper that published the “racist” cartoon on Australia’s tepid response to continuing attacks on Indian students in that country, has responded to the criticism. Bharat Bhushan, editor of Mail Today, the tabloid newspaper run by the India Today group, says in today’s issue that he hoped the angry reaction would…
The Indian cartoon that’s offending Australians
It takes a particular genius to feel offended by a piece of art instead of the reality it mirrors. Several students of Indian origin have been clobbered in Australia in an unceasing (and unacceptable) wave of attacks over the last few months; one of them even being killed last week. Yet, the response from both…
What an idea sirji, to kill papers, magazines
Idea, the cellular phone company owned by the Aditya Birla group, unveils its latest television commercial envisaging a paperless age. Possible?
Thankfully, it was just a soggy tennis ball
Cricket reporters are full of advice in their reports on what went wrong and what should have been done. But how good are they facing what they dish out? In this 2007 video, New Zealand journalist Andrew Keoghan took guard against the world’s fastest indoor cricket bowler and survived—just about—to tell the tale. Link courtesy…
Since promises are meant to be broken…
… India’s premier television anchor Karan Thapar makes one in his Hindustan Times column: “This year I’m taking on a bigger challenge. I’ve decided to give up interrupting my guests. Instead, I shall let them waffle and drone on, regardless of what they’re saying and how off target they may be, till you, the audience,…
ToI, Jang, Geo unite to give peace a chance
At a time when cynicism about the media is at an all-time high, and when war-mongering has become an almost daily routine for media in India and Pakistan, media behemoths in the two countries have taken a small but welcome step on the first day of the new year to reduce the sabre-rattling. While most…
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