Mr. Ruben Banerjee is the editor-in-chief of Outlook. He was earlier the National Affairs Editor of Hindustan Times. A journalist with more than three decades of experience, he has previously worked with Al Jazeera, India Today and Indian Express. An... Read Full Bio >>
Mr. Ruben Banerjee is the editor-in-chief of Outlook. He was earlier the National Affairs Editor of Hindustan Times. A journalist with more than three decades of experience, he has previously worked with Al Jazeera, India Today and Indian Express. An incurable news junkie, Mr. Banerjee is particularly fascinated by anything that is interesting and significant and impacts the world. Also an author, his latest book ‘Naveen Patnaik’ – an unauthorised biography of the Odisha chief minister – got rave reviews. This was his second book, the first being ‘The Orissa Tragedy – A Cyclone’s Year of Tragedy’.
Here’s looking back at our surreal contrasts—the broken bridge between our dollar millionaires and poor...
The Bangladeshi media, as in India, has unfortunately taken the role of accuser, jury, and judge – all...
Since 2018 when Odisha hosted the hockey World Cup, the state has taken the role of being the sport's...
For all its grandstanding and attempt to occupy a high moral ground, the US as we all know is not exactly a...
No party is a saint when it comes to the abuse of anti-terror laws: ‘prison without bail’ is a clause...
No matter what the govt says, the oxygen crisis claimed lives. Denying it means we have not learnt lessons.
Simple government denials will not be sufficient in laying this scandal to rest.
The commonest but unproven theory doing the rounds is that Prashant Kishor is out to cement a Federal Front...
The responses to an editorial I wrote earlier highlighted how divided the country has become, and possibly...
Arresting an old, ailing man like Stan Swamy was in itself controversial. The State requires serious...
Ministers certainly can make or break businesses, but I doubt whether they can change our otherwise mundane...
Any post-mortem of how state and courts failed Swamy will be a case of too little, too late.
The Tamil Nadu model where bigger national parties like Congress and BJP play second fiddle to the DMK or...
We make news out of victims. But can they be orphaned a second time by a news ecosystem that feeds off their...
If changed strategy marks the beginning of a course correction, that’s not a bad start after all
Rhea Chakraborty became the victim of a media trial soon after Sushant’s death last year. The lack of...
Has China vacated its aggression? Have they, deceptively, usurped land? Has India ceded ground? A certain...
Twitter occupies a public space and owes us some transparency, writes Outlook Editor-in-Chief Ruben Banerjee
'It is true that the Covid second wave has been quite severe and it overwhelmed the system for a while. Yet,...
For the last few years, Wangkhem has been in and out of jails, labeled as someone very dangerous for the...