Agent Provocateur

The banality of TV news analysis! Those who abhor instant coffee, even if it’s a designer brand with a fancy prize tag marketed by Nescafe, ...

Media spattered and bruised NaMo exposes p-sec fraud The signs of desperation are showing. After failing to bring him down despite 8 years o...

That won't silence the clanging bells! Hindus who are proud to assert their identity and fly the Tricolour high have now found a new pla...

Friday has come and gone. Shahrukh Khan’s film, My Name is Khan, has been released in theatres across the country and around the world. The ...

Kanchan Gupta / Comment This year’s general election will be remembered for three myths that determined its amazing outcome, catapulting the...

In defeat, don't introspect, just be disingenuous. This appears to be the prevalent view in the BJP post-May 16. We are yet to see any s...

All that glitters is not Dubai The shockingly superfluous reportage of life in Dubai in Indian newspapers and news magazines, which would ha...

Oh! Calcutta was disappointing Even during the Swingin’ Sixties, records of the times inform us that official London was quite stuffy and st...

Discretion is not censorship Last Thursday I was invited to speak on 'violence in media' at a panel discussion organised by Pioneer ...

Malaysia, not truly Asia Kanchan Gupta Water canons used to disperse protesting Malaysian Indians in Kuala Lumpur The brutal crackdown on Ma...

Half-truths don't help Muslims Kanchan Gupta A Kashmiri Hindu grieves over his children slaughtered by Islamic terrorists Recently Tehel...