Remembering Kamal Khan
‘Kamal was news tv before the circus took over’ It’s been a pretty miserable Makar Sankranti. Early this morning a call from my old NDTV friend Manish Kumar was...
Journalists are not Soldiers
This week’s Straight Bat video blog is a question prompted by a recent interview we did with a Pakistan minister with some questioning why we had given a ‘platform’...
हां, मैं राष्ट्र-विरोधी हूं, क्योंकि…
नब्बे के दशक में देश की राजनीति धर्मनिरपेक्षता बनाम छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता में विभाजित थी ; अब एक और अधिक घातक विभाजन ‘राष्ट्रवादी’ अौर ‘राष्ट्र-विरोधी’ ताकतों के आधार पर करने...
Yes, I am anti-national
In the 1990s, the country’s polity was divided by secular versus pseudo secular faultlines; now, another divide, and frankly far more insidious, is sought to be created between ‘national’...
Farewell Editor
The last time I did an India at 9 debate on CNN IBN on June 2, 2014, Vinod Mehta was on the panel. As the debate was ending, Vinod...