Journalism
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South Asian Peace in Stockholm
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Thuglaq turns 54 and The Forgotten art of Dialectic!
A reader reports from the 54th annual Thuglak meeting on Pongal day, tracing how Cho Ramaswamy’s political magazine has changed under S. Gurumurthy, with less humour and a shift to…
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The Emissary launches (for real)
A note welcoming Akshar Patel’s announcement that he is going full-time on The Emissary, quoted in his own words, in which he says he wants to tell the stories of…
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The Lavanya suicide and journalistic priorities
Nachiketa, calling it a rant, criticises a News Minute piece on a girl’s suicide for putting Hindutva’s spread and Christian forgiveness ahead of what actually happened to her, and says…
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Putting the Arnab storm in perspective
The author argues the optics and high-handedness of Arnab Goswami’s arrest deserve criticism, but that arbitrary arrests such as Sameer Thakkar’s over tweets are more troubling, and that Goswami’s arrest…
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The AJPlus exception! Fascism for thee, but not me
Razib Khan questions the fuss over AJ+ and its ‘woke’ journalists, noting its owner Al Jazeera is a tool of the Qatari government, and argues they practise guilt-by-association from a…
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The Problem With The Juggernaut Is Its South Asianness
Argues that the problem with the subscription webzine The Juggernaut is its pose as ‘South Asian’, a label innocuous on its face, while crediting good stories such as Sabrina Malhi’s…
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Browncast Episode 82: Francois Gautier; pro-Hindu French Journalist
BrownCast episode 82 with Francois Gautier, a French journalist and long-time supporter of ‘the Hindu cause’ (or, as opponents might say, ‘the extremist Hindu cause’), asked how he came to…
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Browncast Episode 29: Zaid Jilani on the discourse, the primaries, and culture
On Browncast Episode 29, journalist Zaid Jilani discusses his project to bring people of different views together, where his own views came from, growing up in the rural South, and…
