Dear Time Magazine, Congratulations on focusing your attention to a part of the world you didn’t believe existed until a few years back. As a budding media professional, I must commend you on...

It was the summer of 2015. Anurag Kashyap often considered one of the best directors in the Indian film Industry had delivered an embarrassment of a movie. It was called ‘Bombay Velvet’, starring...

Mao Zedong was a fêted activist. He co-founded Student Associations, strengthened trade unions and advocated the need for a “Great Union of the Popular Masses”. He led communist forces in China through a...

The current Modi government has often been accused of leading the country through a phase of ‘jobless growth’, which in simple words means “even as the economy for a country grows, unemployment remains...

Remember that viral video in which BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia introduces Priyanka Gandhi “as no ordinary lady” but the mother of “the future president of the Congress party”. Bhatia’s sarcastic jibes led to...

According to news reports, Pakistani artists have been banned from Bollywood. The ban has been implemented in response to the terror attack in Pulwama which claimed the lives of more than 40 CRPF...

In 2014, came a CSDS-Lokniti report on media’s impact on voting patterns which was based on a ‘National Election Study’ analysed by Rahul Verma, a political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley,...

‘History will treat me kindly’ said Manmohan Singh when he was all set to call it quits. We don’t know about history, but one movie has certainly treated him the way he wanted. ...

It was the month of February. The year was 2015. The Budget session of the Lok Sabha was underway. The house was discussing MNREGA. Speculations were rife about Prime Minister Modi abolishing the...

Cool guy Kejriwal. I really like that man, not as a politician of course but as an entertainer. There’s no point regurgitating the same old nonsense that is mandatorily included in every biographical...

After the Congress’ victory in three states of the Hindi heartland i.e. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh- the Lutyens’ media is in overdrive to project that the results of the state elections will...

I am a technical guy, I believe in numbers, facts and figures – basically anything that can be expressed or quantified numerically. But how do you quantify honesty? Or truthfulness? You simply can’t!...