WHEN Parakala Prabhakar published his essays in April last year in a book titled The Crooked Timber of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis, one ignored it on suspicion that as husband of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman he could not but be deviously trying to massage the anti-democratic image of the government his wife worked for.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, a well-known journalist and writer, has made a music video called “Saheb” in Hindi. “With the nation’s political climate heating up and the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, we bring you a musical take on our Prime Minister,” read the description of music video.
The song has beautiful singing by Aditi, lyrics by Rajesh Nirmal, and music by Vedi Sinha and Amartya Ghosh.
The two-day workshop was held on January 27 and 28 at Bengaluru’s Indian Social Institute, where experts discussed the state of independent media in the country.
One of the Adani Group's biggest, most expensive and most controversial projects is its plan to create a coal-to-PVC plant in north-west India. The proposal is to turn coal into polyvinyl chloride, a commonly used plastic. The plant would be located at Adani's 'special economic zone' at Mundra in the state of Gujarat (the home state of both Gautam Adani and Indian PM Narendra Modi). The project has been criticised for its environmental implications, including the likely emission of dioxins and furans.
The Debate 2024 presented by the Calcutta Debating Circle in association with The Telegraph had the motion — 'journalism today is more intent on pleasing rather than presenting'
