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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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Friendly (Bhojpuri) Spiderman

We should welcome this cross-pollination and rejoice at the entry of western ideas and creativity into every nook and corner of our country.
July 14, 2007

The year of living gloriously

The death of Dilip Sardesai, a cricketer of the 1960s and ‘70s vintage, brings back memories of that champagne season for Indian cricket, 1971-72.
July 8, 2007

Yankee go home (can I come too?)

Agreed, NAM is a relic of a time gone by, when there was a Cold War on, and it is true that one must march with the times, but who was US to tell us what to do?
July 1, 2007

Greed is good, and it’s back

America’s two-wage families cannot keep their heads above water. In London the middle-class is being edged out of the city to neighbouring towns.
June 24, 2007

Maid in India: tale of a dream

The India growth story is not merely about economic growth. It is a story of social change, of altered aspirations and of major shifts in attitude.
June 17, 2007

On your marks, and then what?

An otherwise fine student may have had one bad day,that can affect him for life. It’s a patently unfair system which allows no second chance.
June 10, 2007

Great music, but that’s about it

In the tradition of popular culture studies, we cannot let an album be an album; we must turn it into a symbol of something bigger: Sidharth Bhatia.
June 3, 2007

If Kalam rocks, why change him?

It is now becoming increasingly clear that the chances of APJ Abdul Kalam being elected as the next President of India are thin.
May 27, 2007

Rahul Gandhi is not alone

If Clinton wins two terms, the US would have been ruled by a Bush or a Clinton for 28 years, with a few Bushes still waiting in the wings: Sidharth Bhatia.
May 19, 2007

Urban liberals in India have found a new heroine — Mayawati

A Dalit as a PM? It shows how far as a nation we have come that we should be prepared to even consider it. It is also a notion that would delight all liberals.
May 13, 2007

Who benefits from reforms?

Manmohan Singh does not play fast and loose with the truth; his words are measured, his ideas cogent, and even his loud thinking not without purpose.
May 6, 2007

YouTube therefore you are

Success, on the Internet at least, lies in numbers because it allows marketers to capture large audiences round the world at one go.
April 22, 2007

When is the time to speak up: A citizen-centred thought

We still get a fair number of letters, but subtract the ones that are written by the ‘professional’ letter writers and the number goes down.
April 15, 2007
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