Hindustan Times
Do you sometimes feel that intellectuals and experts like complicating issues needlessly so that lay people like you and me are not only excluded from the discussion but are also left hopelessly confused?
Do you wonder why so many activists and self-proclaimed scholars take the positions of lay people and then caricature them so that they can construct men of straw to attack? Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged hindustan times, India, Naxalite issue, Naxalites, Terrorists
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged BJP, Congress, Gujarat, Ishrat Jahan, Narendra Modi, Naxalites, Terrorists
On Friday, terrorists set off bombs at law courts in several cities in Uttar Pradesh. As the news of the blasts trickled in, the response of most news organisations was to mobilise all resources and to plan for extensive coverage. TV channels flashed ‘Breaking News’ bulletins on their tickers and rushed correspondents and camera crews to the sites of the explosions. Researchers worked the phones lining up experts on security issues for the discussion programmes that would be telecast live that evening.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Breaking News, Hyderabad Bombs, Indian secularism, Islamist Groups, Nagaland, Terrorists, Uttar Pradesh
