It’s first fifteen years, the Indian private broadcasting industry expanded like the American Wild West. Canny local entrepreneurs rode into uncharted territories and planted their stakes…
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Social scientist Nalin Mehta examines the defective paver-blocks of regulations that line the pathways of Indian media, and suggests roadwork. One of the great risks of…
Writing at the turn of the last century on India’s education system, Swami Vivekanand forcefully argued that the “present system of education is all wrong.” The…
Wait. No one watches the news? Then why are there so many news channels. The writer of a new book on the industry explains the real…
In November 1947, Mahatma Gandhi told delegates of the All India Congress Committee that he had come to them because they were the āreal Congressā. In…
āIndia is Modi. Modi is Indiaā screamed the headline in Indiaās most popular pink paper, The Economic Times, the day after the new Prime Ministerās historic…
Cricket’s showpiece event is set to kick off next week but it’s as much about business as it is about the romance of the game. Sunday…
When Baron Haussmann reshaped much of old Paris in the 1850s to turn its narrow by-lanes into broad boulevards or General Charles Napier obliterated much of…
India’s cricketing czars were still digesting the Supreme Court’s definitive judgment on the IPL betting and match-fixing scandal this week, when soccer fans around the world…
Explaining the need for promulgating ordinances for reforms in insurance and coal block allocations, finance minister Arun Jaitley blamed the stand-off in Rajya Sabha, arguing that…
