"I was happy the way boys responded to the spot-fixing challenge."
Rahul Dravid
"I was happy the way boys responded to the spot-fixing challenge."
Rahul Dravid
There was a time when new entrants into journalism were taught the difference between information, misinformation and disinformation. The Editor would wag his finger at the young recruits and sternly warn them against indulging in peddling either misinformation or disinformation. Media’s job was to inform – those hurt by that information would take recourse to misinformation and disinformation. In response, it was the media’s job to expose both.
Such lessons are no longer given; many editors who now head news organisations have elected to forget the lesson they were given. This either suits their purpose to grab eyeballs or because theirs’ is a command performance. Like marionettes, they twist and turn as told to by their political masters. The naïve blame it on ideology. Read More...
Navbharat Times has published an interesting story, headlined “अल्पसंख्यकों को सरकारी सलाह, खून बढ़ाने के लिए खाएं गोमांस” , about a booklet that is being circulated among children in minority-dominated areas of Uttar Pradesh. The booklet, called ‘Poshan’, has apparently been produced by the Ministry of Minority Affairs, headed by K Rahman Khan, in collaboration with the Department of Child Welfare. It urges children to eat green vegetables, chicken and beef to “generate oxygen and blood in the body”. This is possibly the first official, tax-funded promotion of beef in this country.
The Constitution’s Article 48 explicitly states: “The state shall endeavour to organise Read More...
Yet another scam has tumbled out of the Congress-led UPA Government’s closet. This time it is about bribes paid by the Italian aerospace and arms manufacturer Finmeccanica to certain Indian individuals and entities to secure the order to supply 12 AgustaWestland helicopters to the IAF for use by our ‘VVIPs’. The full details of the scandal are yet to be placed in the public domain, but the CEO of Finmeccanica has been arrested and an Italian court is dealing with the case. Strangely, it is Italy which is prosecuting the bribe-givers and not India which should have, by now, identified and punished the bribe-takers. After all, it has been known for long that all was not fine with the AgustaWestland deal and there have been several reports in the media about bribes having been sought Read More...
Pope Benedict XVI has stunned Catholics with his surprise decision to step down from office on February 28, just a little over a fortnight from now. The 85-year-old head of the Catholic Church who presides over a shrinking empire of faith from the Vatican says he no longer has the strength to fulfil the duties of the Pontiff. His health has deteriorated “to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me”.
“For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter,” the Pope said in a statement released by the Vatican on Monday. According to AP, “The last Pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII who stepped down in Read More...
Afzal Guru, one of the conspirators who plotted the terrorist attack on Parliament House on December 13, 2001, was executed on Saturday. Few tears will be shed for the man, except by those who share his twisted ideology or want to see the Indian state destroyed – for instance, Arundhati Roy. For most of us, Afzal Guru’s execution is no more than just deserts for a criminal who committed a crime with full knowledge of its consequences.
Nonetheless the execution has left me feeling uncomfortable for two reasons. First, and this is a point I had made when the butcher of Mumbai Ajmal Kasab was hanged, a legal execution should not be carried out in a hush-hush manner. Afzal Guru was given a fair and open trial. He was tried under the law of the land. He had access to legal advice. And, Read More...
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