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Reliving my own horror with Mumbai Police: How many Sachin Vaze are still out there?

Ashish Shukla - March 23, 2021

I once was travelling on a reporting assignment to South Africa. The flight was Delhi-Mumbai-Johannesburg. From the Mumbai domestic airport, in order to reach...

Times of India apologises to Russia on a piece, termed ‘fake news’

Newsbred Staff - February 14, 2021

Responding to a strong letter written by Russian ambassador to India Nikolay Kushadev, The Times of India on Saturday apologised to Russia. Kushadev had taken...

Slowly but surely, Cops are getting hold of Red Fort rioters on the run. How?

Veeresh Malik - February 12, 2021

Using Facial Biometrics to nab the bad guys is all over the Indian media lately - and the usual morons are howling about "privacy", so...

The golden age of lies: When everyone but farmers are being blamed

Ashish Shukla - January 12, 2021

It’s a freefall. Farmers don’t listen to judiciary or legislature. They don’t want amendments nor are they open to a panel by the Supreme...

Hathras opened for media again; Section 144 still in force

Bhumika Arora - October 3, 2020

The district administration has finally reopened the borders of Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras on Saturday and has allowed the media to enter the village. Earlier, on...

Why Muslim women are fronting the Islamist agenda? Who’s using them as puppets?

Ashish Shukla - August 19, 2020

There is an interesting piece in Swarajyamag. Muslim women are leading the Jihadis. It’s an emerging pattern. We have this instance in Bengaluru where a...

India’s police and the manufacturing of a storm

Ashish Shukla - July 1, 2020

We don’t trust our police. Most would say they are brutal and corrupt. There is nothing new here. You talk to your parents and...

State and Indian media: The gloves are off; Where are the arbiters?

Ashish Shukla - May 16, 2020

I am in the middle of writing a book on World History where I show strands vastly different to the narrative we have been...

So Barkha you want such ‘freedom for media’

Ashish Shukla - August 13, 2016

“Is this the kind of freedom Barkha Dutt wants for Indian media,” my wife, sipping her tea, asked me this morning. She was drawing my attention...

Express on JNU: Devil quoting from the scriptures

Ashish Shukla - February 28, 2016

If you are an Indian Express reader you have just been told: you are the dumbest, stupidest, bumpkin, buffoon, idiot, thick-headed, retarded, imbecile reader...

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