Archive for the 'Journalism' Category

The Textbooks Of Pakistan

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Months ago, I came across an article written by Col Athale(retd) at rediff.com. I have read Athale’s writings earlier and I have always found myself disagreeing with most of what he has to say. This article too, had a conclusion in the title itself — Peace with Pakistan: Chasing a mirage. But it did raise [...]

Versions

Monday, May 24th, 2010

At timesofindia.com, a report that is carried by many other Indian news sources, about Pakistan troops opening fire in Pooch, a sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir — Violation of cease fire by firing mortar bombs and rockets. Also mentioned is a jawan on the Indian side who was critically injured.
Dawn, [...]

Jumping the Gun

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Caption: Pietersen and Morgan leave the ground after they won the T20 World cup (AP Photo)
England has just reached the semi-final of the T20 world cup. They may not may not win the World Cup from here but certainly, this is their best feat since the 2005 Ashes win.
By the way, you see something [...]

Hail the Martyr

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

“Indira’s killers are being hailed as ‘martyrs’, in New Zealand’s largest gurdwara”, screams the first line of this report, online at Timesofindia.com. The report originates from Melbourne and that makes me wonder what is with Australia and the Indian media.
Titled “Shaheed Bhai” - or martyr brother - the paintings of Satwant and Beant along [...]

Books that give answers

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Yesterday evening, at Reliance Timeout, for launch of Dilip D’souza’s book, “Roadrunner”, there was a very insightful conversation that happened. We had the author along with India’s best historian, Ramachandra Guha and Rahul Dravid talking about India, America, about few of the the many dots that connect the two democracies and how this particular book [...]

Not like you and me

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Times of India’s website, timesofindia.com carries a report on how the late Andhra CM, YSR Reddy met a sudden death on his Bell chopper. The report also carries a picture of the body of the CM, that was found by the search party after more than 24 hours of the chopper’s disappearance.
The picture is probably [...]

Supplementing the Supplement

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

There was a recent story on CNN-IBN about a murder in broad daylight in East Delhi. What was peculiar about it, from the journalism angle, is that they showed scenes of the dead body lying on the street. There was no panic situation (as there is, in times like a bomb blast) while the camera [...]