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    Paid News: The subterfuge of the Press Council of India

    By Girish Nikam

    After the last general elections in May 2009, a hue and cry was raised in the media, by both politicians and some media persons themselves, about the pernicious phenomenon of “paid news”. Even as late as last week, during the Ramnath Goenka awards ceremony, the Indian Express which organizes these awards had a [...]

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT LALIT MODI, THE “MEGA FIXER”?

By Girish Nikam Who is Lalit Modi? It indeed sounds like a stupid question to ask, after being bombarded for days ...

The Radia Papers– Raja, Tata, Ambani connection

By Girish Nikam For the last nearly a month, the name of Nira Radia has been in circulation. Two publications, Outlook ...

Has the Lotus started wilting in the South?

By Girish Nikam The crisis which has engulfed Karnatakas BJP Government, the first for the party in South India, has been ...

politics

The statue diplomacy— End of bitterness?

By Girish Nikam

When Uttar Pradesh Government headed by Mayawati is on a statue building spree, and has even got into trouble with the judiciary as well as the environmentalists, comes news from deep down South about the kind of statue diplomacy which has surprised one and all.
Last week, the Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and [...]

Election

Good Governance, clever strategy and some mavericksKey to the 2009 Mandate

By Girish Nikam

The voters of India did what was considered by many if not most, as the unthinkable. It voted back a Government at the Centre which had completed five full years and with an astonishing mandate for the leading party in the UPA coalition, Congress, for the first time in 25 years, which has [...]

India

Paid News: The subterfuge of the Press Council of India

By Girish Nikam

After the last general elections in May 2009, a hue and cry was raised in the media, by both politicians and some media persons themselves, about the pernicious phenomenon of “paid news”. Even as late as last week, during the Ramnath Goenka awards ceremony, the Indian Express which organizes these awards had a [...]

States

Telangana:Tale of a suppressed aspiration

By Girish Nikam

From Apr.27, 2003 to Dec.9, 2009, is just a blip in the history of a nation or even a State. But for K.Chandrashekara Rao (KCR), it has been a roller coaster ride, from a hero to a zero and back to being a hero. The not-so-charismatic leader from Karimnagar, one of the key [...]