Binders full of women
Why women? Why are they protesting (when they should be at home cooking and cleaning and looking after…
Brief break
PSA: Over the next two days the blog is on a hiatus of sorts (If something major breaks,…
Republic of Spin
Spin — the massaging of facts to make them palatable or, as someone once put it, “the artistic…
The state versus the students
December 15, 2019: Police — many of them masked — entered the Old Reading Hall on the first…
A death, foretold
“THE VALUE of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To…
Dotting the ‘i’
#1. The censor board, after consulting with its specially constituted panel, has decided to clear Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s…
WTF Just Happened: The news in briefs
#1. Unlike Gajendra Chauhan, you cannot question Anupam Kher’s curriculum vitae and fitness to chair the FTII…
WTFJH: The BHU edition
Back in 1998, in course of covering the national elections of that year, I ended up in Baramati.…
WTF Just Happened: Sept 25
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” “It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected. “No,…
WTF – the BHU sequel
This is the thing with headlines. You use one because you think it fits and then along comes…
