Tag Archives: Sania Mirza

Everybody loves a good affair between celebs

The cross-border love affair between Indian tennis star Sania Mirza and Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik has gobbled up more space and time than most issues bedevilling the two nations. Outlook cartoonist Sandeep Adhwaryu looks at the priorities of the media in the two countries in The Sunday Guardian.

‘Perhaps, it is time for missionary journalists’

In a week in which the Hindustan Times front-paged the story of children eating silica-laced mud not far from Allahabad, and 76 soldiers were ambushed by Maoists in poverty-stricken Dantewada, the former Sunday magazine and India Today correspondent Madhu Jain laments the loss of “missionary journalism” in her DNA column. “The words of my boss…