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Saturday, November 21, 2009

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Sidharth Bhatia
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Sidharth Bhatia has been a journalist for over three decades in the print and electronic media. Starting as a reporter in Bombay during the national emergency, he moved to covering state-level and national politics.

Bhatia was editor of the Bombay edition of The Observer of Business and Politics and then a foreign correspondent in South Africa during the democratic transition in 1993-94. He became chief executive officer of a media company in Mauritius before returning to Bombay in 2005 to join the team that founded Daily News and Analysis.

Bhatia continues to be on the editorial board of DNA and manages the Opinion pages and the Sunday edition, writing a regular signed column and also the leader comments of the paper.

In 2001, Bhatia was made Associate Press Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a regular on several television shows as a commentator on social and political affairs.

Bhatia has taught at several media institutes, including at the well-known social communications media course at Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai.

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Reinventing yesteryear films by giving them a fresh appeal will keep the idea alive.
November 16, 2009

Exotic and colourful tales from the ethnic ghetto

Three years ago when Mira Nair made The Namesake, she got rave reviews in the western media.
November 7, 2009

With allies like this the Congress doesn’t need enemies

Trinamool, DMK, the NCP — all have added numbers to the government, but little else.
October 31, 2009

A Rs11 lakh pen writes India's luxury script

Sure not everyone wants to use a plastic ballpoint pen, but Rs 11 lakh? What would one do with it?
October 24, 2009

Party number two

There is a need for a credible alternative to the Congress in Maharashtra; who will win the race?
October 23, 2009

Playing the Dalit card

Rahul Gandhi’s foray into the Dalit hinterland is eroding Mayawati’s vote bank.
October 12, 2009

Shock and Awe Obama wins peace Nobel

The committee said the prize was given for his diplomacy and specifically mentioned his call for a world free of nuclear weapons in a speech in April.
October 10, 2009

Mayawati is getting rattled by Rahul Gandhi

The communist leader Jyoti Basu was once asked by a visiting American academic — “Who represents the Dalits in your party?”
October 10, 2009

‘Tis the season for grabbing voter eyeballs

When Raj Thackeray heard that Wake Up Sid used that foul word ‘Bombay’, he saw an opportunity.
October 3, 2009

A posh rebel in India’s heart of darkness

The India they encounter is iniquitous, exploitative and cruel. Maoists thrive in such a climate.
September 26, 2009

No room for Bertie Wooster in Congress

Alas, Tharoor, what is good at the Drones Club is not so appropriate in a political party.
September 19, 2009

Sonia’s inner voice on austerity has spoken

Politicians as a class are seen as being hypocrites and two-faced. They espouse one thing, do quite another.
September 12, 2009

Burra sahib Merton seeks weird and exotic India

Those of our discerning readers who don’t limit their TV watching to reality shows or unending sagas involving mothers-in-law may have seen programmes on channels like Discovery and National Geographic.
September 5, 2009
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