Munish Sharma, a Delhi biochemist turned MBA, has stood second in the Union public service commission (UPSC) exams. He doffs his hat for his success not to textbooks, but to newspapers: “I did not study too much, just read The Hindu newspaper word to word. I loved it. “I read the newspaper, I wrote the…
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Pseudonymous author spells finis to Mint editor?
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Journalists at Mint, the business daily launched by the Hindustan Times group as “an unbiased and clear-minded chronicler of the Indian dream”, are in a state of shock after the dramatic weekend announcement of the resignation of its founding editor, Raju Narisetti (in picture), less than two years after…
‘Too many junkets at stake to make enemies’
Kesava Menon, the former Islamabad correspondent of The Hindu, reviewing ‘Anatomy of an Abduction—How the Indian Hostages in Iraq Were Freed‘ by V. Sudarshan, former diplomacy correspondent of Outlook: “The Indian media has a relationship with the country’s diplomatic corps that is somewhat peculiar when compared with its approach to other arms of the government…
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