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Media: The Smart And The Clumsy

The suave section of the media catches the unpolished section pants down _______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ The following report was carried by The Hindu on 24 December:

Editors Guild denounces practice of “paid news” | Anita Joshua NEW DELHI: Shocked by the “pernicious practice” of publishing

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Added by Surajit Dasgupta on December 28, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Legalisation Of Prostitution, A Blanket Proposition

The suggestion by two judges of the Supreme Court to Government of India to turn prostitution legal leaves one flummoxed

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Added by Surajit Dasgupta on December 21, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Panic, Says Page 1; Don't, Says Edit

Screaming headlines declaring India's first 'swine flu' death followed by measured editorials advising people level-headedness, or the sight of people moving about masked followed by pacifying messages from doctors days later. Honey-I-Blew-Up-The-Kid has been the story of media's information management on the potential H1N1 worldwide pandemic, which in India is still merely an outbreak… Continue

Added by Surajit Dasgupta on August 9, 2009 at 4:30pm — 4 Comments

Gagging With Gay Abandon

The media is hysterically celebrating the reading down of Section 377 of the IPC that has decriminalised homosexuals. Fine prints of the judgment are being overlooked at will and ignorance of both science and religion are being bandied about by English media journalists, gay rights activists and, yes, also religious heads. In this backdrop, Research, setti… Continue

Added by Surajit Dasgupta on July 7, 2009 at 1:00am — 12 Comments

Kapil Sibal Loves To Be News

Otherwise, there is little that has merit in his hastily proposed new education policy _______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ The then Science & Technology and Ocean Development (ST&OD) Minister, now the Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal unknowingly made my transition from a teacher to a journalist a smooth… Continue

Added by Surajit Dasgupta on June 29, 2009 at 11:00am — 3 Comments

Better Advertisement Won

It was not necessarily the better product Right wing economists must welcome a UPA Government minus the left. Let’s hope the Congress does not betray its ally, the Trinamool Congress, to shake hands with the socialists who still have some more seats with them than their rival if both Kerala and West Bengal are counted, despite the rout the communists have faced in both the states. Let us hope that 2009-10 sparkles as brilliantly in contrast to 2008-09 as 1991-92 had sparkled in c… Continue

Added by Surajit Dasgupta on May 20, 2009 at 6:00pm — 14 Comments

The Manmohan Singh Chronology

How would you react if this man were your colleague?

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Added by Surajit Dasgupta on April 30, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

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