journalism
The Reader’s Writer
Jyotirmoy Talukdar
Tabish Khair on why he doesn’t write for critics, his dislike of the term ‘postcolonial’, and how journalism helped him overcome his dread of deadlines
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
If Jug, like his Riverdale namesake, seems too laidback to be paying attention to weightier matters, you’ve been had
This Is Not Journalism as We Know It
In their response to Open’s X-Tapes exposé, Barkha Dutt and Vir Sanghvi are defending the indefensible. Here is why.
The Buck Stops Here Too
After Open carried the transcripts of conversations between two iconic journalists and Niira Radia, a powerful PR person, the Indian media countered the story with strategic silence. A sacred code of Indian journalism had been broken.
Go Forth and Sting
In 2005, two journalists caught 11 MPs on camera taking money to ask questions in Indian Parliament. It became one of the greatest TV exposés. But the journalists were soon hounded by the system and they suddenly found themselves described as the accused. In a landmark judgment last week, the Delhi High Court vindicated them by firmly defending sting journalism. Here, one of the journalists, explains what happens after you get a great story.
Critical Condition
Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India
Bollywood, via Patna
This Tinseltown’s most prolific reporter works out of Patna. How does he go about doing his job in a state of absence?
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