Author: B Shantanu

Saffron? Sorry, wrong colour

If “proof” was really needed on why the Left parties vetoed both the initial “nominees” from Congress for the post of President, here is Dr Karan Singh in an interview to the Indian Express...

“Why Print Newspapers Are Screwed”

Great analysis from Henry Blodget on why offline media’s days are numbered: Why Newspapers Are Screwed (also on Yahoo! – with The New York Times as an example) Essentially: Offline circulation continues to drop but content creations costs...

Quote of the Day

Tarik Jan, “a gentle-mannered scholar at Islamabad’s Institute of Policy Studies” quoted in TIME Magazine, “Pakistan: Divided by Faith” by Aryn Baker: “We [Muslims] were the legal rulers of India, and in 1857 the British...

Taslima Nasreen and a deafening silence

Came across a great post by Sandeep on the recent assault on Taslima Nasreen in Hyderabad. Some things stand out in this remarkable episode: The deafening silence of the liberal activists on the incident...

Why Abu Salem spared SRK

This one is straight from a Hindi film plot – almost. Rediff recently carried an excerpt from Anupama Chopra’s new book, King Of Bollywood titled “When SRK got a call from Abu Salem“. Here is...