Abstract With over 800 television channels, India is not only the world’s third largest television market but also its most varied. Indian television for the past…
Year: 2012
He forced himself to jump off a plane: hoping to train his mind to work under extreme conditions, attempting somehow to simulate the pressures of the…
In early 2008, India’s Zee News broadcast a ‘special investigation’. With a loud, red banner labelling the inquiry an ‘exclusive’, the program made two claims: first,…
The last time Samba was in the national headlines was when the Delhi High Court acquitted some of the accused officers from the infamous Samba spy…
Extracts from Olympics: The India Story, rev. and updated 2012 edition
The world turns on its axis, night comes after day, the Olympic Games are held every four years. The Olympics are so ubiquitous, so much a…
The world turns on its axis, night comes after day, the Olympic Games are held every four years. The Olympics are so ubiquitous, so much a…
For a party where access and the good graces of the leader is everything, two leaders speaking critically and out of turn in the same month…
It is the first good cheer she has had since the debacle in the UP election but amid the familiar self-congratulatory posturing by the BSP’s spokespersons…
Is a successful London 2012 possible for India? Or will a sports culture remain an illusion with India not bothering to look beyond cricket and turning…