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Sunday, November 22, 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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The rediscovery of Jawaharlal Nehru

After his expulsion from the BJP, the old soldier in Jaswant Singh has risen to the fore. No longer is he the suave diplomat given to discretion and understatement.
August 30, 2009

The rise, fall and rise of Jaswant Singh

The official website of the Bharatiya Janata Party has no record of any leader named Jaswant Singh who was till the other day one of its most senior and respected members.
August 22, 2009

Team Manmohan flounders in 100 day test

This UPA government was more or less an extension of the previous one, but its election was greeted with an audible sigh of relief.
August 16, 2009

The tragedy and tyranny of losing a cell phone

It is a nice feeling when, in times of grief, friends rally round to help in any way they can.
August 8, 2009

Sun, sand, shopping (and guns) in Sri Lanka

The biggest challenge is to avoid the total alienation of the minorities, especially the Tamils, from the mainstream.
August 1, 2009

Shrill outrage doesn’t make for mature debate

The government is answerable to the people of this country, but shouting at it defeats the purpose.
July 25, 2009

The race to reinvent Dharavi

The battle for Dharavi is hotting up. Soon, builders and developers will submit their proposals for what they plan to do to the area if they are awarded the tender.
July 18, 2009

Looking for my copy of Wren & Martin

Indians of a particular age and above, especially those who went to English-medium or ‘convent’ schools, will no doubt recall Messrs Wren and Martin.
July 11, 2009

Keep religion out of the gay debate

In a democratic republic, with a functioning Constitution and strong legal system, the law is the best weapon.
July 4, 2009

Michael Jackson, one bright spot of the awful '80s

The newspapers on Saturday were full of outpourings of personal grief from many writers who remininsced about what Michael Jackson meant to them.
June 27, 2009

Exporting revolution to the world, the Twitter way

Though its older cousin Facebook has taken Indian netizens by storm, Twitter still is in its infancy here.
June 20, 2009

A nation that is losing its grip over history

It is often said about us Indians that we do not have a sense of history. This does not mean that we don't know our history and its significant dates and dramatis personae.
June 13, 2009

How India pushes its bright students abroad

Once students reached Australia, however, things were not so hunky dory. Many of the institutions were bucket shops.
June 6, 2009
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