Okay, first things first. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) cadres need to understand what 'irony' means. Seriously. A group of them 'protested' (read: screamed, burnt tyres, brandished
Evidently the Sri Lankan government is looking to reform its image in the international media. How? By chiding journalists for the poor job they have done! Prime Minister D M
The death of Professor S R Siras, a reader in the Department of Modern Indian Languages at Aligarh Muslim University, has not seen the end of the well-deserved negative attention
Pakistan's opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has recently been giving new meaning to the epithet 'power-hungry'. At a Muslim League rally where Sharif was speechifying on corruption
India's babus are once again training their guns at Internet pornography, with new amendments to the Information Technology Act in the works to block websites on the grounds
While engaging in a favourite pastime, Chhetria Patrakar was even more entertained by all the fuss about idiots this past month, which took up even more ink than usual. Chetan
This New Year, sellout sales abound. Chicanery packages can be purchased at bribery rates. Just give us your specifications: number of columns, stories, and images; colour or no colour; extent
What a relief to see the Indian Express front page these days – no news of bombings or killings or scams. Just nice, clean, full front-page ads. But in the recent
Catering and contributing to the easy visuals craved by numbed attention spans, The Hindu has just unveiled a new 'beta' website. Chhetria Patrakar had long assumed that the
Those who could tear themselves away from reading about Michael Jackson's death and his various artificial body parts got to talk about happenings on other constructed landscapes. The
Chhetria Patrakar has recently been seeing some blue in the southern reaches of the Subcontinent – not because of temperature-induced encroaching sea levels, but rather in terms of a temperament-depressing encroaching
On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, as seminar attendees around the world parleyed about whether the free media was actually free, journalists in the Swat Valley were more likely
