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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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Socialism is in the Congress’s DNA and in the very being of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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Goodbye identity politics

The Congress spoke about the aam aadmi in 2004, and since then, has followed it up with welfare schemes that gave paid work to millions of poor, rural Indians.
May 17, 2009

A vote for inclusive India

The Congress has won because it has gone back to being the Congress of old; it has the vision for a modern country that can carry every section of its populace with it.
May 16, 2009

T20, ODI or a Test match?

If one of the big parties doesn’t win big, we are heading for one more unstable formation.
May 15, 2009

Why do our neighbours hate us so much?

Indians can get boorish while abroad and they may not even consider Nepal as a foreign country but as their own backyard.
May 9, 2009

Terrorism has not worked as an election issue

No sooner did it become apparent that Mumbai’s voting percentage was slightly less than the last time round, than the television channels went into overdrive.
May 2, 2009

A CPM prime minister would be a great idea

It will be a message to the world that Indian democracy is full participatory and has room for all shades of opinion.
April 26, 2009

Rahul (Congress) vs Varun (BJP) in 2019

By bursting on to the scene in such a dramatic manner, Varun has leap-frogged over many other BJP leaders and positioned himself as a man to watch.
April 19, 2009

Is Mumbai cosmopolitan? Just check its candidates

Between them, the candidates represent Mumbai in all its diversity — linguistic, religious, gender and economic status.
April 11, 2009

Sharad Pawar, the artful dodger of Indian politics

Though there have been rumours of scandals around him, no mud has stuck — he is India’s leading Teflon politician.
April 5, 2009

Post-poll, the prodigals could return home

The probability that the Congress or the BJP would do better than most people give them credit for is rarely considered.
March 29, 2009

The wages of casual communalism

Now Varun is on every front page, every TV channel’s prime time news and from being the insignificant cousin he has morphed into a budding star of the Sangh firmament.
March 21, 2009

Comrades fiddle while Left burns

Imagine you went out to a party dressed in your finest suit and half-way realised that your trousers had begun to rip where you couldn’t see.
March 14, 2009
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