The words journalism and media seems to suggest one thing, one entity, one type of public role in the world but nothing could be further from the truth. The bulk of the world’s media platforms end up being platforms of record.
It may seem like a particularly nothing month of the year — summer is on its way out but the glories of fall are nowhere yet in sight — but there is one landscape on which August glows like a firefly.
“Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just gotta sit and watch and wait.” From Miguel Street, by VS Naipaul
Tarun Tejpal - DEAR MRS SONIA GANDHI, We all know the cliché that India moves on faith. We love our gods, and it is at their feet that we place all our successes and failures.
Tarun Tejpal - ON A BALMY evening at the end of September 2001 I was in the hall of a luxurious hotel in south Mumbai attending a media awards ceremony.
Tarun J Tejpal - We all love sentimental trash, especially if it can masquerade as something artistic and meaningful. Often it needn't even do that — in an act of self-affirmation we invest it with these virtues.
Tarun J Tejpal - Aamir Khan starrer film Lagaan has completed 20 years of its release on 15th June 2021. Lagaan was a remarkable movie in the history of Indian cinema.
Tarun Tejpal - Courts of Law are a forum to Prosecute and never to Persecute. The Goa Government should come clean making public the total expenditure incurred so far on the Tarun Tejpal Case which has been on for almost eight years.