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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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Praying to the neon gods we made

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Howard Roark or Molly Bloom? Both

Last week, this paper carried an article about one-time popular authors who have slipped into oblivion.
July 26, 2008

Life after the trust vote

It is a good time to be a Member of Parliament, more so if you belong to a small party or are an independent.
July 19, 2008

A history of left-handed insults

In 1948, the Communist Party of India decided that India’s independence was a betrayal and the country was ripe for armed revolution.
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Mamma Mia, here we go again

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July 5, 2008

Searching the city for a perfect cheesecake

In recent years, one of the biggest changes in our beloved world class city is the profusion of restaurants offering different cuisines
July 5, 2008

Bogus charms of a ‘world class’ city

They all have a buzz about them, an energy that comes not only from the crowds, the architecture and a general attitude that sets them apart from the run of the mill big city.
June 28, 2008

India’s new and angry tribes

On our front page today is a photograph of a young Sikh wielding a sword in an aggressive manner on the streets of Mumbai.
June 22, 2008

Souza & the coming of age of Indian art

The buzz is that it is the glamorous wife of an Indian industrialist and the painting is heading back to our very own Mumbai.
June 15, 2008

Lessons from the Obama campaign

Americans claim theirs is a classless society, in that upward mobility is possible, theoretically, for every American. But the levers of power are firmly in the hand of the upper classes.
June 8, 2008
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