Monthly Archives: February 2021

“Perverted, grotesque”: An illustration in a TOI edit page piece that got the Russian ambassador’s humourless goat

An edit page piece in The Times of India by the paper’s edit page editor Swagato Ganguly has got the Russians—or at least their representative in India—all riled up. The piece, “Does soft power matter?“, built on the YouTube video released by Vladimir Putin‘s bugbear Alexei Navalny, has led to a loud protest by Russia’s…