Sonia Gandhi is considered the Indian of The Decade by the Times of India -Crest edition ! here's why... When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer, a slight distance away from the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of 1991, few would have imagined she would one day become one of the most powerful people on earth. … [Read more...]
THE BUCK NEVER STOPS WITH TIGER
December 18, 2009 By 2 Comments
- By Sanjay Jha The last week has been a never-ending barrage of controversial news; Telangana, David Headley, Copenhagen and climate change , liberally interspersed with the sexual marathons of Tiger Woods’s putts , butts and long drives, and of course, cricket. With news coverage becoming increasingly commodity-like amidst this constant jamboree , certain features stood out. I thought Barkha Dutt’s quick-fire interview with KSR from TRS established beyond doubt that the Congress … [Read more...]
WHO LEAKED THE LIBERHAN REPORT ?
December 10, 2009 By 4 Comments
- By Sanjay Jha Has it ever struck you, common man, that we in India have stopped questioning some very basic issues which should occur to us with logical and biological precision on auto mode? Let me explain: 1) We all know that the Liberhan Report on Ayodhya demolition was leaked to the Indian Express and NDTV who naturally expectedly propagated the same with kinetic vigour. Shouldn’t the government, parliament , media, opposition parties, public etc find out who actually did … [Read more...]
THE BUCK STOPS WITH VAJPAYEE
December 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
- By Sanjay Jha ( In defense of Lieberhan Report ) I am focusing this piece on what seems to have become recently the central controversial issue of the Justice Lieberhan Report on the Babri Masjid demolition at Ayodhya in 1992 ( courtesy BJP media cell’s skilful handling and the Congress’s surprising pussy-footing strategy on the subject ) ---- former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s indictment and being held equally guilty as others in saffron colors in that illustrious … [Read more...]
THE BUCK STOPPED HERE
December 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment
- By Sanjay Jha Last week was expectedly about 26/11 remembrance and the excess coverage given the monstrous nature of that calamity could even be grudgingly understood. I think we should not make media-bashing a cavalier past-time , a close runner-up to political thrashing. So here goes. Headlines Today reconstructed the Metro-Cama hospital exchange where the trapped trio of the famous senior police officers ( Hemant Karkare, Vijay Salaskar and Ashok Kamte ) whose sudden death that … [Read more...]
