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10 per cent quota: All you needed to know and your newspaper won’t tell

Ashish Shukla - January 9, 2019

It’s mayhem in our newspapers. Nobody has come out in support of 10 percent reservation bill which the Modi government has sought for economically...

Wish Barkha Dutt had spoken to my ‘piddi’

Ashish Shukla - January 7, 2019

A righteous Barkha Dutt was ecstatic. An act of new Congress government in Rajasthan made her tweet pompously (see image): “In a deeply unequal country, education...

Attn. Faye D’ Souza: for a lesser communal tweet, a star chef was sacked in Dubai

Ashish Shukla - January 5, 2019

This is a piece about a cartoon and an anchor. Both are interchangeable: a cartoon could be an anchor; an anchor could be a...

Beware Muslims, you’re led astray like cattles by media

Ashish Shukla - January 4, 2019

This piece is for our Muslim brothers and sisters in India. While you are poisoned everyday by your newspapers and the party of your choice,...

Indian English Media is anti-Hindu

Newsbred Staff - January 2, 2019

The Puranic story of Raktabijasura is one of my all-time favourites. Very briefly, Raktabijasura is a Rakshasa, a demon who is endowed with a boon that he thinks will...

Indian Express begins 2019 with Mrinal Pande’s bigotry

Ashish Shukla - January 1, 2019

I grew up in Lucknow, aware of a Hindi literary icon Shivani who lived in Gulistan Colony, a pristine part of the city which...

IS-module arrests get sympathy in Lutyens’ Media

Ashish Shukla - December 28, 2018

Take time out to read the Indian Express and The Hindu of this morning (December 28, 2018). Instead of disgust and horror for the...

Times of India drags Gujarat on migrants’ issue unfairly

Ashish Shukla - December 23, 2018

Times of India leases out its editorial pages to entities who would struggle to find a byline in a Bareilly school magazine. Shobha De,...

India won’t mind US out of Syria and Afghanistan

Ashish Shukla - December 22, 2018

Sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. For someone like United States which created terrorism in the 1990s that has destroyed the world–...

Our politicians are for polls, not people

Ashish Shukla - December 20, 2018

We are all wary of politicians. Deep in our hearts we know they are populists. All they want is to win elections. They could...

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