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Reuters’ Modi interview: “Sensational tokenism”

Reuters‘ scoop interview with Narendra Modi published yesterday by the news agency, but apparently given 17 days ago on June 25, has created headlines for the Gujarat chief minister’s continuing lack of contrition for what happened under his watch in 2002. And for his faux pas of comparing the victims to “kutte ka bachcha” (puppies).…

Paparazzi pic of Bollywood babe sans makeup

If Indian journalism is uniformly second-rate, you ain’t seen nothing yet, Aakarbhai. Let Kanchan Gupta of The Pioneer tell you a story: “The popular Gujarati newspaper Sandesh had an interesting story about aspiring journalists who appeared for this year’s entrance test for the media course offered by Saurashtra University. “I have no idea about the…