News 24×7

News has always been a passion, but with the advent of 24×7 TV news coverage, it has created an appetite and fueled it continuously. But more importantly it has also opened up a whole new perspective – watching the media. For me it started a while back, watching the news media driving themselves into a [...]

Anna, Hazaar!

I am sitting here in the US, far away from the action in India. But my heart is somewhere else. People are out in huge numbers in Delhi and all other major cities and towns in India. ‘I am Anna Hazare’, is not just an expression of words, but a mirror to the hopes and [...]

Sordid News Media

When i wrote the previous post, i hadnt read or seen, one of the biggest reports in the news, about the media. In the previous post, i had only highlighted a visible malice,  related mainly to the culture of 24×7 TV news. While the observations were focused on news as it unfolds in India, it [...]

Sorry of a News Media

Given my travel schedule, its difficult to track news from the beginning to the end. I mean a particular story, from the first time it is splashed as a breaking story, as it unfolds, till it eventually results in some common good. Well, that was the news of the old. Or supposedly. We always tend [...]

Opinionators

There used be a time, when I turned to the TV or the newspaper for news and also views. And then you read books and magazines for in depth opinions and some exposition. In India, there was The Hindu, and when it came to world news, there was the BBC, before the Doordharsan started carrying [...]

One step at a time..

Five years for justice. But it is still sweet when it arrives. Even as i write these lines i am thinking ‘how i am able to accept this?’. Court systems and judiciary is never instant and fast, nor is it always right or just. Yet, there is something about this pursuit, that drags on for [...]