Anuradha Raman

A dissection of the death of an idea that played out on primetime TV.

It has been a favourite playground for governments in power. And this tradition has endured…

'All majoritarian groups feel emboldened. Many fascist groups in the nation desire to suppress free thought and expression. Thiruchencode has become a laboratory. What happens here will affect writers across the nation.'

And now a protest and bandh in Tiruchengode, in Western Tamil Nadu, against a 2010 novel, set a century back, about consensual sex outside of marriage

As verdict 2013 rolls out, what has the broom, that has mauled the waving hand and stopped the lotus from completely blooming, achieved in Delhi?

The Prasar Bharati CEO shoots off an angry, no-holds-barred letter to the I&B minister Manish Tewari, telling him where he gets off

Much din has been created about the I&B ministry's directive to shift the telecast of The Dirty Picture from 12 noon to after 11 pm. Perhaps it's time for a little perspective.

Despite impoverishment beyond imagination, caste and religion are strong emotive factors here that the issue of development will find difficult to dislodge

'Once they come to power they will behave responsibly,' he says. 'People don't really mean what they say during elections...'

Soul searching? Hardly. The "emergency protocol" that some news channels rolled out in a hurry is just a pithy reconstruction of a code that the government itself had put together two years ago. Why the hysteria then? And why the hurried embrace now?

Harangue-happy Arnab Goswami is unfortunately becoming the template for TV channels, where noise more than news dominates

The rift at the top opens wide in the party claiming to be different

Has an SC ruling given a push to ghar wapasis?

AAP’s big promise, cheap power and water in starved Delhi. Can they make it happen?

Even before the trial is concluded, a CBI court finds reason to discharge a powerful man

A Jashodaben clip on DD? Kala Pani!

Few are happy with the CJI’s certificate to Modi

Once a media darling, AAP now finds that vested interests, loss of lustre is keeping it out

The head of the forensic department at AIIMS who had led the team which conducted the autopsy on Sunanda Pushkar

The principal of St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, who had earlier struck a note of caution against 'an alliance of corporate capital and communal forces'