Daily Archives: 18 June 2012

Tarun Sehrawat: 22, and killed in the line of duty

sans serif records with regret the passing away of Tehelka photographer Tarun Sehrawat after contracting malaria while working on a story in the Maoist-controlled areas of Chhattisgarh. He was 22 years old. *** The Hindu‘s Aman Sethi pays tribute: “Today, when one of our own has been irrevocably lost, I feel we — as reporters,…

So which newspaper wants ‘growth at all costs’?

Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Jairam Ramesh’s judicious, sensible recommendations attracted hysterical condemnation from a New Delhi newspaper wedded to the doctrine of “growth at all costs”. “The newspaper ran an editorial accusing India’s excellent and extremely well-qualified environment minister of “gadding about looking for more fashionable causes to sponsor”. It charged him with…