Anupam Mishra – (22 Dec 1947 – 19 Dec 2016)… [ This article appeared in the Economic & Political Weekly in its issue dated January 28, 2017.] Since Anupam Mishra’s death on December 19, 2016, after an 11-month battle with… Read More ›
Journalism
Part 1: The Coordinator of Our Daily Maladies
[ PART 1 of a two-part series ] TV channel guest coordinators have become the powerbrokers behind the daily screaming matches on primetime news. Our writer enters this tumultuous world where a new politics is being forged in front of… Read More ›
Recruitment Ad for Editor in 1908. Perk: prison
Excerpts from pages 89-100 of Freedom Movement and the Press: The Role of Hindi Newspapers, by Madan Gopal, published in 1990 by Criterion Publications, New Delhi: On April 30, 1908, Mrs. and Miss Kennedy were shot dead in Muzzafarpur by… Read More ›