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About the AuthorSidharth Bhatia
Sidharth Bhatia is the Founder/Editor of The Wire and writes on politics, society and popular culture. In addition, he is a great fan of rock music.
    Gandhis preside over grumbling status quoOpinion
    Gandhis preside over grumbling status quo

    Reports are floating around in the media that several senior leaders in the Congress are informally discussing breaking...

    26 Sept 2015 12:31 PM IST

    PM: All talk, no action?Opinion
    PM: All talk, no action?

    Despite the onslaught in Parliament and outside, which showed that the Congress had not curled up and died after its...

    29 Aug 2015 6:34 AM IST

    Modi must break the mould on Aug. 15Opinion
    Modi must break the mould on Aug. 15

    Every year the Prime Minister of India stands early in the morning facing the ramparts of the Red Fort and speaks to the...

    15 Aug 2015 7:19 AM IST

    Book review Behind a Billion Screens: What Television Tells Us About Modern India- TRPs, profits and the news businessLifestyle
    Book review 'Behind a Billion Screens: What Television Tells Us About...

    The viewer is free to accept or reject the news

    6 Aug 2015 6:44 AM IST

    Selective memoriesOpinion
    Selective memories

    In December 1992, as violence spread in different parts of Bombay, as it was then called, I met a young man who had...

    1 Aug 2015 6:28 AM IST

    What Sangh needs? Intellectuals, actuallyOpinion
    What Sangh needs? Intellectuals, actually

    Now that even his film industry colleagues, including some heavyweights have objected to the appointment of Gajendra...

    18 July 2015 9:13 AM IST

    Western disturbance vs IndiannessOpinion
    Western disturbance vs Indianness

    In the 1974 Hindi film Sagina, about a worker who fights against tyrannical British tea estate owners, the main...

    6 July 2015 11:56 AM IST

    Kejriwal and his guerrilla tacticsOpinion
    Kejriwal and his guerrilla tactics

    In these grim times, when the nation is faced with a multitude of problems and needs some hope that all will be well, it...

    22 Jun 2015 5:55 AM IST

    Modi’s selling the right storyOpinion
    Modi’s selling the right story

    Prime Minister Modi is on a global darshan of epic proportions. Rarely has a head of government, Indian or otherwise,...

    8 Jun 2015 9:45 AM IST

    Old prejudices die hardOpinion
    Old prejudices die hard

    When the story of a young Muslim boy receiving a letter from a company, Hari Krishna Exports, regretfully informing him...

    25 May 2015 12:51 PM IST

    What’s wrong with appeasement?Opinion
    What’s wrong with appeasement?

    The Muslims are a vote bank for the Congress, says the BJP

    26 April 2015 1:28 PM IST

    Sonia revived Congress, will Rahul follow?Opinion
    Sonia revived Congress, will Rahul follow?

    His articulation of an issue has failed to inspire and ignite his partymen

    13 April 2015 6:26 PM IST

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