television
Television as Political Theatre
Mihir Srivastava
...and the splendid isolation of talking heads doing election analysis in TV studios
Because You Were Once Impressionable Too
Saas-Bahu and other television soap operas have transformed Indian lives in ways you can laugh at—or empathise with
More Cardboard Cutouts
Indians are popping up on American television screens in new and still typecast ways, typically for the laughs they get. Watch awhile, though, and you know this is mostly about America coming to terms with emerging realities
The World According to India TV
The fine art of turning a 30-second clip into a 30-minute programme on the most bizarre subjects
How Cricket Became Boring
It was unthinkable. That a day would come when the urban Indian male would admit he is bored of cricket. But the truth is that the sport is fast losing its charm among its most commercially influential devouts
Confessions of a Sports Channel Executive
“[On telecast rights] the press is inaccurate 80 per cent of the time, and the rest are plants”
Confessions of a TV Serial Scriptwriter
“There’s a constant disconnect between writers. No writer knows what the other is working on, even if they are working on the same episode. It has become a clerical job now”
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