This article appeared in a ground-breaking book edited by two eminent media academics from Cardiffe School of Journalism. With leading international media scholars from around the…
Browsing: In The Media
The BBC’s John Simpson once wrote deprecatingly about the worst kept secret in foreign reporting: the propensity of some overseas correspondents to read the local newspapers…
Abstract Much of the existing literature on Indian cricket identifies the game’s inherently political dimension and attributes the pre-eminence of cricket in the Indian imagination to…
Abstract Cricket’s imperial lineage continues to define its meaning in parts of the erstwhile British Empire. Simultaneously, the game is now a metaphor for the forces…
It is official. Initial reports indicate that IPL 2 is not as hot as the first edition. The television rating meters have spoken and the first…
Book review of Madhu Trehan, Tehelka As Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth (New Delhi, Lotus/Roli, 2009). Madhu Trehan’s account of how Tehelka…
What is the connection between a long forgotten US naval battleship that was blown up in the Havana Harbour in 1898 and the state of the…
Just after the attack on Gandhinagar’s Akshardham temple six years ago, a senior general with the NSG told me quite candidly that live television coverage of…
This article outlined the wider historical and political themes around Indian television and its political impact. Some reviews of this book …an imposing effort to combine…
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