Fragile wings, cloudy skies
To the uninitiated observer, the recent announcement of India’s civil aviation regulator that domestic airlines had registered growth of 2.62 percent in the first five months of 2019 in comparison to 2018 may suggest cloudless skies.
5y ago
Bearing the burden of undefined privileges
The sentencing of two editors to one-year jail terms in the southern Indian state of Karnataka for alleged breach of legislative privilege draws into focus the role of the press in reporting activities of lawmakers.
7y ago
Just an ordinary journalist
We are inheritors of a glorious legacy and bound by the rigours of a demanding craft. We are not hoodlums who threaten to rape or maim those we don't like or shout out those we disagree with. The best of us err, sometimes grievously, but have learnt that making amends can be uplifting.
7y ago
Cash-starved India assesses its pain
Two months after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the controversial decision to withdraw currency notes of Rupees 500 (USD 7.4) and 1,000 from circulation his country is still reeling from the effects.
7y ago
Selling a brand named nationalism
It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.
8y ago
Has the poison done its work?
Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the antidote to those seeking the demise of the Indian National Congress party, one of the contintent's oldest political parties?
8y ago
July 14, 2019
Fragile wings, cloudy skies
To the uninitiated observer, the recent announcement of India’s civil aviation regulator that domestic airlines had registered growth of 2.62 percent in the first five months of 2019 in comparison to 2018 may suggest cloudless skies.
July 24, 2017
Bearing the burden of undefined privileges
The sentencing of two editors to one-year jail terms in the southern Indian state of Karnataka for alleged breach of legislative privilege draws into focus the role of the press in reporting activities of lawmakers.
March 11, 2017
Just an ordinary journalist
We are inheritors of a glorious legacy and bound by the rigours of a demanding craft. We are not hoodlums who threaten to rape or maim those we don't like or shout out those we disagree with. The best of us err, sometimes grievously, but have learnt that making amends can be uplifting.
January 7, 2017
Cash-starved India assesses its pain
Two months after India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the controversial decision to withdraw currency notes of Rupees 500 (USD 7.4) and 1,000 from circulation his country is still reeling from the effects.
October 23, 2016
Selling a brand named nationalism
It’s time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with dollops of nationalism.
July 20, 2016
Has the poison done its work?
Is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the antidote to those seeking the demise of the Indian National Congress party, one of the contintent's oldest political parties?
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