Author: B Shantanu

Laloo leela*

Outlook’s issue of 25th June has a picture** of Hon Rly Minister Shri Laloo Prasad Yadav celebrating his birthday with “an uncharacteristically quiet bash, with wife Rabri Devi, Manmohand Singh and his wife Gursharan,...

An Unsung Hero…

Thanks to Mohit who first alerted me to this arcticle by Varun Aggarwal on Sir J C Bose – the unsung hero of Indian Science. Varun’s site details Sir J C Bose‘s contribution to...

The great joke that is Indian media – part 3

Courtesy Barbanindian, here is�Part – III in the “great joke that is Indian media” series. It mentions another piece of remarkably sloppy reporting by CNN-IBN. Excerpts: “This morning they ran another sob story, a...

AIDS’ first casualty in India: Part 2

Last year I wrote about how the media often resorts to cliches and convenient stereotypes rather than doing the hard work to get the true story behind sensational headlines. I was referring to the...

Comment moderation now removed…

Dear Friends and Readers, I am removing comment moderation from this blog and reverting to the situation that we had before (you can now see your comment on the site as soon as you...